Posted in Literacy and Language, strategies, Journal on Jan 15th, 2007 No Comments »
We got our new water heater installed today — after 17 days of boiling water on the kitchen stove. I quickly took a bath before something else happens! Sorry everybody else, but a clean mom is a happy mom. So far no one else has been in a […]
Posted in Poetry and the Arts, Literacy and Language, Links on Jan 4th, 2007 No Comments »
I think that JoVE has it right in Accessible Poetry when she talks about what accessibility is to a child:
…A Midsummer Night’s Dream was accessible to Tigger (at age 7) because it is about fairies. And the Lady of Shallot is about knights and ladies. A lot of what children read is incomprehensible to them, […]
Posted in Literacy and Language, strategies on Dec 18th, 2006 4 Comments »
Jen of Aquinas Academy Adventures asked about late readers here and also wrote a post about her visual-spatial learner which was very interesting. She writes:
After the last couple of months of trying to teach my 7 year old in a “normal” way (ie, like I teach my oldest), I am coming to […]
Posted in Literacy and Language, Links, Living and learning on Dec 10th, 2006 3 Comments »
I wanted to get this link to lots of notebooking resources up here.
This is a continuation of my last post on notebooks.
I was not a very consistent mom about keeping up a baby book, and I never got the hang of picture-taking until I got my digital camera. Lesson there — […]
Posted in recordkeeping, Literacy and Language, Early Childhood on Dec 9th, 2006 1 Comment »
Have you read Cushla and her Books? It is about a disabled child who was read to by her parents and overcame some significant limitations through her relationship with books. The author’s depiction of Cushla’s response to different books at different developmental levels is perceptive and thought-provoking. (I think it […]
Posted in Literacy and Language, Early Childhood, Milestones on Sep 8th, 2006 No Comments »
It is interesting to watch Aidan and Paddy in the early stages of literacy.
Paddy is extremely quick and facile. After several years with Aidan, who attains milestones with difficulty and perseverance and often by indirect “compensation” routes, Paddy reminds me all over how easily things normally “click” with the preschool child.
Paddy loves to […]
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