Week Four

We are really settling into a good routine.  We start around 9:30 each morning and Eleanor likes to do math first.  She's cruising along in her math book.  It's still working on counting to ten and ordering numbers to ten.  I have to write most of the numbers for her, but she enjoys the rest.  We did have one EPIC meltdown the day I told her she had to trace the number 10 by herself.  She cried, yelled, and stormed off.  After a break to reflect on having to spend a whole lot of time alone in her room, she came back and not only traced but wrote several beautiful tens!

After math we move on to phonics.  I really pleased with Get Ready for the Code.  She's doing really well with them and is remember letter sounds better than I thought she would.  Every week we start a learn a new letter sound and we make a page with that letter and some pictures beginning with that sound.  This week we took the four pages we've made so far and played a game.  I would name a sound or a word and she would have to throw a bean bag on the correct page. 

She broke the bag twice because she threw so hard!

After phonics we do handwriting and copy work.  What an improvement from the first few weeks!  She does them now without complaint and is tracing letters and words much quicker now.  And some of it is starting to look like letters!

Once a week we do a writing assignment.  We have a type of writing to do and she dictates to me while I write.  This has not gone well the last two weeks.  Last week was like pulling teeth and this week was only a little better.  The assignment this week was writing about a memory.  With a lot of questioning I was able to get this:

Better than last week, but we still need to work on this.

After all of that is done with move to the couch and I read to her.  Sometimes we have little activities to that go with our reading. Our favorites have involved arts and crafts.  This week we read "Old King Cole" and Eleanor made herself a crown:

I think she's starting to like modeling for the camera!