January

 January we started back into school after a two week Christmas break. We struggled getting back to our routine ate first but I really wasn't feeling well which didn't help. Here are some pictures of David's work to summerize what he accomplished this month. Even though we started off a bit slow we ended up covering a lot. The first 3 pictures are examples from SSRW. We do an excersize like this for each letter of the alphabet. Numbering the order of events was new. I've notised a big improvement in David when it asks to find things in the picture that start with a certain letter. We also covered rhyming words.

For each letter we also look through a magazine to find a picture that starts with that particular letter. David can do this on his own for the most part (with the exception of some difficult letters that I have trouble finding a picture for).

David has developed more patience for colouring. When we started this was his least favourite task and he would often rush it and only use one colour so I have noticed an improvement in this as well.

The above math pictures are review. The below example is of unit 14 which we just completed. The purpose of until 14 was to make sure 0-20 was well known. I found it funny to cover this now since in the past we have already been talking about hundreds. As February begins we are moving into until 15.

Besides an increased interest in colouring and drawing David has been eager to complete the alphabet. We will be completing Z today! Also we have been doing a lot of spelling words... David has been writing the month, day of the week, our address and phone number as well as his last name. He sells many words from memory and we are working on others. He continues to express enthusiasm for other languages and I should really be spending more time working on french with him. I think this will be a main focus this summer when we have a break from our regular school routine and hopefully I can incorporate it better next year... adding some actual french curriculum.