It is now officially summer! Except that it is still raining here in the Pacific Northwest. After my “year in review” post I had decided not to do any school with DJ until September. While he is enjoying the extra time to play Minecraft, he’s also surprisingly decided to do sound games with himself again. I am cautiously hopeful that he’ll develop a spark for language lessons. Today be sorted all of his letter magnets by color and then wrote…
I had intended for DJ to do more static addition to be sure he understood it but he started a problem while I was making breakfast and he misread the number. The font I used for the numbers has a little dash at the top of the 1 and he confused that with a 7. He was already beginning to combine the two sets of stamps to get his answer when I noticed it. But I shouldn’t have worried, he…
It’s been a long time since I’ve written a school day post. A combination of technical issues, being busy at work, a 4 year old not wanting to do school and the reappearance of the sun conspired against any blog posting. Looking back at last year’s post, this year is certainly very different. DJ was going gangbusters with school last year and I could hardly keep up. But this year, he is more resistant to anything that looks like school….
And we’re back! I know, it’s been a month since I last wrote a blog post and you’ve all been anxious to know where we’ve been. I titled the last blog post “All the time in the world” in reference to my recent discovery that I need to teach more patiently, allowing more time for my son to go at his own pace and for me to not feel desperate when he isn’t interested in moving forward. Combine that with…