I really feel I'm lacking in the preschool department. I need to find ways to have Princess working on learning type crafts and such to help her along, but it seems like I have to focus so much on you know who...Bub! What it comes down to is I need more planning time...perhaps a week at a time. Perhaps I figure it all out by the time they graduate! =O
Friday, November 12, 2010
Time Frustrations
Been working on time with Bubs...we were struggling today for sure. It didn't help that we started school late this afternoon. I have some paperwork that had to be completed today so school was delayed big time. After a certain time it seems like he loses all concentration!
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Seems Like Its Working!
I'm glad we made the switch to BJ English 2! Its just what we both needed. He will need review on certain parts as we continue through, but it helps me to know what we need to work on....and for someone who didn't like English/grammar in school its helping me to correctly teach it and maybe refresh my memory a bit too! LOVING THE BOB JONES AND THE WAY THEY TEACH FOR UNDERSTANDING!!!!!!
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Spelling
Today we started back with A Beka spelling. We are actually redoing 1st grade spelling (we didn't finish the whole book to begin with). A Beka spelling is very advanced (in my opinion) and they cram in a lot of words for your student each week. So I'm testing Bub with the words we worked on last year. The ones he has trouble with with make up our new list. I"m keeping the list smaller than they do too. I just don't want to frustrate him like last year. I'll continue on this way until we finish it. I'll update about this strategy as we go.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Teaching for Understanding
I recently switched language curriculums....again. I was using Writing Strands, but was feeling it was just not working for Bubby (or me!) right now. He really needed a curriculum to go into detail about sentence structure. We have since switched to Bob Jones English 2. So far it's going pretty good, but trying to teach a child the difference between a telling sentence and an exclamation can certainly have its challenges!
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