First Week

So here we are, first week is done! I am a little late on the blog, I was hoping to do it over the weekend but time flew and I didn't find a time I could sit and focus. So here I am trying to get this done before its time for class today. The week went pretty good. We did take Thursday off just because it was my birthday. We ended up going out to the spillway and then fishing. Friday we did most of Thursdays work so we aren't really behind either. The whole week we averaged about 3 hours per day, except Friday. Friday was a little over 4 hours. George seems to be really enjoying class and looks forward to it. I can tell he is really learning too! Hopefully it wont be much longer until he finally knows all of his abc's. He has had zero interest in learning them, so fingers crossed it wont be much longer. We are basically doing one abc and one number per day. Here are some pics I got throughout the week. Enjoy!

One thing we did was practice cutting. On this project he had to color the space between the lines (which he was not happy about so he just did a little, he actually hates to color) and then he cut them out and we formed a flower.

He played cupcake patterns a few times and started to get the hang of patterns better. He was very proud. He is doing much better with ABAB, and AABB  he is still struggling with ABCABC, but with time he will get that as well

On Tuesday he had the number 1, and on the page he was suppose to trace the word one and then write it. I didn't think he would be able to do it and he shocked me and did a fine job!

Wednesday I pulled out shaving cream and put it on a cookie tray and let him decide what color to add to it. He picked green, and later on yellow. He loved mixing the color in.

In order to practice cutting circles, he made a caterpillar. (I cut out the head) I can already see a big improvement on his cutting in just a few days. He was happy on this cut and paste I let him use regular glue not just a glue stick.

This is a picture of him using one of the write and reuse books, tracing fun  He really enjoyed this. I am sure these books will be a great asset.

I was told about this great blog to follow called 1+1+1=1  I have found tons and tons of ideas on here. One of the ones we used this week was called clothespin abc I printed the pages off, laminated them and decided this time I would let George use a dry erase marker and just circle the correct answer. He loved them!

We also pulled out Alphabet Hearts  He did pretty well. Better than I expected. He would go over to the board with the lowercase letter and find the uppercase then go back to the table and find it on the folder. Over the weekend I made him a small chart he will have on his desk for when we do games like these so he doesn't have to run to the board.

Fridays craft was to make our own pencil canes out of regular cans. I don't use canned goods in the house very often so I was very happy when I realized I had a small one and a large one. So me and George sat down with paper, scissors, glue and glitter glue. George loved the glitter glue! A little to much, his can was not able to be put together. Today we will do that so on the next blog you will get to see his end result.

Mine was pretty simple

That was basically our first week. We are slowly starting to find our groove which is great! I'm hoping this week is as good as last! Feel free to comment!