Alicia64 Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 Hi Everyone, My boys are 6 in eight days -- Nooooo, I'm not ready for the baby years to be gone. Anyway, I get print outs from Enchanted Learning and more from teachers' books and work with them on writing sentences. They're doing an All About Me book right now where they write: My favorite animal is a ______. And they fill in dog and create a dog pic. My favorite food is ____. And they fill in pizza and color a picture of pizza. Today we started Aa is for ______. They write apple and then color apples and it goes to Zz. I have to be honest: their writing looks awesome. It's as if on March 1 their fingers could do things that they couldn't do on Feb. 28. I'm feeling pleased. But I still have a nagging feeling that "this is too easy. Something must be wrong." We also play word families: I say, "at is a-t". How do you spell bat? mat? sat? They totally get it. The $300 box of Sing, Spell, Read, Write is staring at me and we're getting started on that tomorrow. So, is my feeling pleased wrong? The nagging feeling will not subside that this has all been too easy and, one day, I'll realize that I should have been doing a, b, or c. Thoughts? Alicia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardening momma Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 I'm not "experienced", as in having older kids, been there, done that. But I'm trying (not always successfully) to do 100 Easy Lessons on a more regular basis. We did a lesson tonight, and dd5 is getting it! Wow. I'm thrilled. We're skipping small parts of the process because she's reading the word before I can tell her, "what sound does this make, what is the next sound, now sound out the word, now say it fast." Before I barely start that process, she says the word. So yeah, I think you should be pleased. They're getting it, and you can move on to the next thing. If Sing, Spell, Read, Write starts out easy for them (I've never used it), I don't see why you can't skip parts of the process until you find the point where they begin to be challenged. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mama25angels Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 You should absolutely be pleased! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skaterbabs Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 It sounds to me like they're doing fine! Whenever I start worrying that my DD (6 in Oct) is "behind" I just look up the SOLs for our state. :lol: At this point she's two years ahead in reading and a year ahead in math. :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lotsofpumpkins Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 I agree- you're doing fine (and so are they!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidlit Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 You all deserve a big pat on the back--you're doing great!:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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