After taking Christmas week off, DJ surprised me by voluntarily selecting the Movable Alphabet to work with. He still didn’t want to write words. He tells me that he “has too many sounds in his head to think of a word”. Instead he decided to match the MA letters to the double sandpaper letters, which was a great opportunity for me to see how many of those sounds he recognizes and he knows most of them. He did try to…
DJ has a lot of friends. He is a very social creature. But he has known one of his best friends, A, since they were both just a few months old. A hasn’t been to preschool yet except for some awesome outdoor preschools that have taught her wonderful things about nature and herself. But a couple of weeks ago her mom asked if they could do a day of school with DJ for me to show her some math. I…
I am hopelessly late in writing this post for last week. Sorry to keep you waiting! The holiday season has kept me running faster than I can keep up. I started DJ on a modified version of Phonetic Object boxes. This is an early reading activity where a set of objects and written labels are matched. Typically the labels would be written on slips of paper and I may eventually get there but without the time to prepare the materials…
I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving! We certainly did so “school” was light this week. Although DJ can easily count to 50 now, when I asked what he wanted to work on he chose to go back to the beginning and do the Cards & Counters. Because he has done this many times before I let him do the non-traditional pattern for the counters. Typically the counters would be placed in pairs so that odd numbers would stand out…