One Month Down!

Wow, here I sit typing this blog and we are already one month down! It's amazing how fast the last month has went by. George is doing great with the work I present him and truly is trying hard. We lately have ran into some problems with numbers, mainly recognizing them. He calls every number 8. We just finished going through the numbers and learned to write them, but it didn't help him with recognizing them so we are going back over them, one per day and really working at it. Hopefully on the next blog I will have a better update about numbers. This week he did the letters Nn, Oo ,Pp ,Qq and Rr. He is doing great with letters and working towards recognizing them. 

So I have told everyone we always start the day of with the Pledge of Allegiance. This week I decided to video tap it so yall could see! Don't mind that it is sideways, lol. I couldn't figure out how to flip it.

Here are some more photos of the week!

This week we read the book "Chimpansneeze" So we made monkey crafts! And for some odd reason George wanted to salute me.

Then we made monkey masks!

Dress the bear helps when I need 3-5mins to grab the  next thing to do. George really enjoys doing this, but it only keeps his attention for a few minutes.

Here he is using one of the write and reuse books I ordered. I be live its tracing fun here. This amaze me at how nice they are. We usually work in one each day. And even though its the same pages it doesn't phase him. He enjoys doing this. We are starting to work on me giving him the book with some simple instructions on what to do and then I walk away and do something else, either getting the next assignment ready to go, or a load of laundry switched.

I finally broke out the magnetic spelling book I got. Although he doesn't know how to spell yet, its nice to tell him what letters he needs and him find them and put them in order.

We played the ice cream game! TWICE! I won the first and he won the second.

At the end of the book its a page just to write whatever you want, I had him write his name!

STAMPS!

Here you can see how good he is getting with his matching! He did miss two of them, but when we went over it together he was able to correct them quickly.

I like to lay out the abc's (The ones we have done) and have him put them in order. We have to do this on the floor now. He is great at looking at the abc chart and following it.

 So we have the great dry erase board, and I have the markers, the eraser and I even splurged on the special spray to clean it with. Well after a month of use our dry erase board just doesn't look the best.

So after looking around online I read the a magic clean eraser works great. I have them so I pulled one out and took it to the board! Guess who has a clean board again? I do!!!!!! The problem is the eraser is dirty so my next thing will be cleaning that. But I am happy with just using a magic eraser for now.







Starting next month we will be doing some things differently in class. Well not differently but we will be adding some things. The major thing is going to be our "Calender Notebook" Its a simple binder we will use each day and fill out. So far I have these pages in it.

This is the cover page.

 Each month their will be a new month here. He will write the date as we get to it.

This page is in a protective sleeve so it will work more like a dry erase page. Each day he will write the day we are on.

We will use this page to write about the day at the end. A smiley face for a good day, a sad face for a bad day.... As we get closer I will have this idea worked out a little better. Also in a paper protector

Months of the year, Also in a paper protector. As we get to that month we will trace it, and on the side circle the next month and the previous month.

Color words. We will probably do one or two a day, and write them here, as we get closer I will know more what I am doing with this page.

Tracing our numbers each day. In a paper protector

We will also start weekly sight words (as we get better we will do them more frequently) this page is in a paper protector as well.

Here we will work on the sight word again. In a paper protector.

Whats the weather like today? Each day he will check it and fill in next to the correct picture, and circle the season we are in.

Once a month he will write his first name, and then we can see how he progressed throughout the year.



I keep all of his papers in this folder, I know have a box to use.... Something tells me we will fill it quickly.

This is our big alphabet book. I was very sad that the binding came out so bad. I was able to hot glue it back together and then I contacted the company. They offered to send me a new one, but I don't want half of his work in one book and then half in another. So they offered me any of the "big" books in kindergarten, figures I bought them all. So I got to pick something from a different level. So the big spelling book (1grade-3grade) is on its way free of charge.

Well that basically wraps up our week. Hope everyone enjoyed the read and the pictures. As always feel free to leave a comment.

Week 3

Well this blog is a little late, but better late than never right! Last week was week three of our school year! It is so hard to believe how fast time has been passing. George is doing AMAZING! He is really learning and learning fast! Last week was again a 4 day week, due to Monday being a holiday. So here is some of our week through pictures!

On Monday we read "Bears Loose Tooth" So we made bears that we colored, cut and pasted together. George loved this! Shockingly he even got into the coloring which he never does!

My bear, and Georges. He is proving to be very artistic! He loves using lots of colors when he does decide to color.

Doing some "book work" We usually do the book work first thing in the morning and then move on to more activities and "fun stuff" as George likes to call it. And pointing out who is laying in the background. I told y'all she is always by his side. Likes to make sure big brother is safe.

We read a book a few night ago that was about a boy and his dream about boats. George loves boats so I told him if he dreams about boats we will make one. He held me to it! He added lots of color of course, he put a sun in the sky bigger waves, and two sharks under the boat. He then told us that the bigger shark ate the boat. Kids and their imaginations.

We start every morning off with the Pledge of Allegiance. It is so cute to see him standing their waiting for us to start it. He is starting to pick up on lines and some lines he finishes them without me telling him the next words.

We bought a new set of flashcards. Their still made by school zone its a go fish set. I however bought them on amazon, since in order to order direct from their website you need an order of $10 or more and these where listed at $2.99, so I found them here for the same price and free shipping due to amazon prime. The cards are great! You match the uppercase letter and the lowercase letter. On the uppercase letter is the adult animal, and the lowercase is the baby animal and according to George its the daddy and the baby..... We have a lot of fun and these help with our speech therapy too because he has to say "Go Fish" and he needs help with the G, F and the SH...

Sunday was Grandparents day! So we did a craft. Hoping by now everybody has received theirs. George worked very hard!

This was the finished product, little pictures in picture frames for them all!

This is kinda hard to read but everybodys also came with a note from George, that he wrote himself saying "Happy Grandparents Day    George"  He worked very hard so I hope everyone enjoys them!

So that was basically week 3. We are really starting to get in the groove of getting things done, and I am learning what things he really likes to encourage him to get through the full day.  We are about halfway done with the alphabet, and almost done with the numbers 1-12, so that's great. We need to still do lots of practice on what the sounds the letters make and matching the numbers up, but my first thing was getting him to write them all. Once he has done that we will take a few weeks and brush up on knowing the correct order, what sounds they make and recognizing just from me saying the number or letter which one it is. But his writing has gotten much better! He has mastered matching the uppercase and lowercase letters so that's great! I hope everyone enjoys this little update! Until next week!