Week Six

Last week was quiet and this week we had our first sick day!  Matt was off on Wednesday and we decided to take Eleanor to the book store and then to the playground.  We packed a picnic lunch and off we went.  She always loves the bookstore and begs to have picnics, so we knew she wasn't feeling well when she didn't want to pick a book and wouldn't play on the playground.  We took her home and, sure enough, she had a fever.  Unfortunately medicine wouldn't bring it down so later that night we took her to an urgent care place down the road.  An hour and one throw-up on Daddy later, she was on antibiotics. 

We had rushed through her work on Wednesday so we could go out and on Thursday she was too tired to do much more than watch cartoons.  Friday was spent catching up on work pages, so we really didn't do anything fun this week.  And we skipped the dreaded writing lesson all together. 

But, even with all of that, she learned a lot this week!  She learned about her first vowel (a) and read 4 words (at, rat, mat, fat).  I  made a game using Popsicle sticks to help her practice reading those words and she has them down-pat (and so do all of the rest of us since she's wanted to play it over and over)!

She also mastered counting backwards from ten and filling in missing numbers in sequences.  I'm really thrilled that she can tell me what number comes before another (ex: __ 5, 6) since this is a skill I've seen many older kids struggle with when I'm tutoring them.

So there are no pictures this week and no writing or drawings to look at, but it was still a very productive school week.  Next week I hope to get back to doing lots of fun things!