LANGUAGE
Printables exercise book.
Nice mix of exercises that covers spelling , narration and story writing, the very basics of. Oliver really likes it, the 'bite-sizeness' and the level of difficulty is just right and it gives it a nice variety of of tasks. Easy to understand , though one exercise didn't make much sense and we just missed it. The book nicely references the reading material in places, like narration parts about Jolly the Robin, where Oliver said 'I know Jolly' , visibly pleased. Some americanisms , but not problematic.
'First language lessons'
Last week we covered nouns , common and proper , learning rhymes and writing story ( Oliver re-telling story in coherent bits by answering Qs and me writing it down )
This book is challenging in places ( generally 'granny' is common noun but your own 'Granny or Nanny' is a proper noun , so unlike former is to be written with capital letter) but with repetition it gets easier and makes LOTS of sense. Fantastic book. Oliver really struggled wth learning the rhythm but throughout the week he'd made a giant leap and learned the whole 2 verse poem in quite old fashioned English, recouping it over and over again in total delight. He also made a progress with a story , when broken down to such a simple steps. Again, very very pleased with got this book, thinking of getting an equivalent for Jazzlyn to help her with her GCSEs.
'The complete Writer'
Exercises on Narration and Copy work. It goes in more depth into copywork and storytelling in the style of the above using classic texts. It's repetitive and makes suggestion on increasing diffcculty and content using grammar lessons etc from 'First Language Lessons' Also, very happy with it.
This week we started on SPELLING exercise book, will feedback on it next week
Math Printables Exercise Book
In the style of the Language pritables, also nice bite size tasks across range. It's not too easy for O, as I thought it might be , though it does exclude the more difficult larger numbers Maths he was doing last year. So we add some of our own independent work on top of going through this workbook. So far no issues. Very helpfully, the book allows several days for a more complicated concept , 'odd and even numbers ' this week. It allowed us 3 sessions and this is exactly how long it took us.
READING
We are on a Chapter 5 or Jolly Robyn, which is going well, Oliver already knows how to read the majority of words but those he doesn't know are really quite tricky and much harder for him to learn than cards from phonics. We might half the task and only write some of the words he doesn't read, leaving the rest for later.
I had to re-write all cards as the words are too tricky for him to read and recognise. Oliver does understand some of what he reads but far from all, so I re-read his bits before reading mine ( each chapter is broken down to small section and we do one section each) He does , however take pride in reading 'grown up chapters' and even picked up and voluntarily read most of an easy but in chapters kids book.
For bedtime and sometimes during the day, for story time i read Ollie 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' he would much rather watch telly but does seem to enjoy the book all the same. I know it because the book we tried before was 'Little house in the prairie' which he did not like at all.
So, very happy to say, the the curriculum we worked out for ourselves is brilliant, very happy with. It takes us 2.5 hours of study with 2 short breaks and a lunch break in-between.
SOCIAL
This week, it's the usual 1-2 playdates with non-he friends, gymnastics , and Fun Farm visit with HE group on Thursday.
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