We’re still slowly getting back into our school rhythm so we didn’t do a lot and haven’t added anything new recently. This was Valentine’s Week, so DJ exchanged homemade cards with his three best friends. As I’m not feeling too creative, I used a Pinterest design of a dog made with heart shapes. DJ did make it his own though by adding googly eyes, his own scribbles on the ears and a lower-case “d” as his signature in the lower…
And we’re back! I know, it’s been a month since I last wrote a blog post and you’ve all been anxious to know where we’ve been. I titled the last blog post “All the time in the world” in reference to my recent discovery that I need to teach more patiently, allowing more time for my son to go at his own pace and for me to not feel desperate when he isn’t interested in moving forward. Combine that with…
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 completed the Hundred Chain this week! He was incredibly proud of himself. He had been intimidated by the Hundred Chain when I first showed it to him so he really surprised himself when he was able to do it. He has been working hard on the Tens Board learning to count from 21-99. That work focuses on each group of ten at a time (say 21-30) so DJ never really felt like he had counted all the way to…