Posted in Early Childhood, Milestones on Jun 28th, 2008 1 Comment »
I brought out our beginning phonics books yesterday in order to plan a bit for next year — 100 Easy Lessons and some sheets I made last year.
Paddy and Aidan both picked them up and started working on them and to my surprise, they had both gained ground since we “stopped” sometime […]
Posted in Early Childhood, Thinking about Learning, special needs on Jul 21st, 2007 4 Comments »
Once at Early Intervention, a mom brought in her 2 year old for evaluation while Aidan was doing occupational therapy in the same room. The little boy was doing imaginary play with dinosaurs while his mom and the evaluator watched, and the EI higher-up, whoever it was, said “well, that’s age appropriate”. […]
Posted in Early Childhood, Living and learning on Jul 10th, 2007 2 Comments »
Paddy says, “I want to have TEN sausages.”
Aidan says, “I beat Michigan Viejo.”
I am struck by how at this pre-academic stage, the accuracy is not the important thing for the children. I explain to Paddy that if everyone got 10 sausages, we would have to make 90 sausages for breakfast. […]
Posted in Literacy and Language, Early Childhood on Jul 6th, 2007 No Comments »
For the past month or so Paddy has been telling me to trace the words with my finger as I read aloud to him. It’s funny because I clearly remember John Holt writing that he once thought to be helpful and educational by doing this while reading to a 3 year old girl, […]
Posted in Early Childhood, Learning Notes, Journal on Jun 6th, 2007 1 Comment »
We’re still here; it’s just been busy and we all ended up with a cold. No one has done any formal academics. I am going to give the boys one more checklist for them to finish in the next week and then we will switch to summer schedule.
Aidan […]
Posted in Early Childhood, Learning Notes, Journal on May 31st, 2007 No Comments »
I spent most of the day on decluttering projects. The middle boys did their Wednesday work. Tuesday, since I was gone all day, they didn’t do any formal academics. Monday they got to take one subject off their list since it was Memorial Day.
I put their spring to summer checklist […]
Posted in Early Childhood, Links, Plans and Ideas on May 7th, 2007 1 Comment »
Planning for next year — looking up file folder games mostly for the little ones, but I think Kieron might like helping me with some of these too.
File Folder Games – collection of links.
Some more from Enchanted Learning.
A weather theme.
A book: Instant File Folder Games for Reading.
And for Math Grades 1-3
Oh, remember this “secret squares” […]
Posted in Literacy and Language, Early Childhood on Apr 24th, 2007 No Comments »
This is what Aidan and I were working on this morning –
(Disclaimer: I don’t have any formal Montessori experience — I can’t even get the hang of reading the books about Montessori at home — so this is just how I am using the materials to suit my special needs learner. […]
Posted in Literacy and Language, Early Childhood, organization on Apr 23rd, 2007 1 Comment »
I uploaded these checklists to help get us through the next few weeks before we phase into summer.
Weekly chart for Kieron (year 5)
Weekly chart for Sean (year 8 )
Aidan’s Therapy Sheet
Paddy seems to be catching the literacy motivation bug. Yesterday evening he spent a lot of time scribbling on […]
Posted in Literacy and Language, Early Childhood on Apr 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Aidan seems to be in a pattern of doing his literacy-activities in the evening. This is from an old activity book that he happened to come across (I picked up a folder and accidentally scattered the pieces, and he grabbed them)
Matching up the picture, you discover a word. He loved […]
