So Friday Rosie says she wants to do her Math workbook. I’m surprised but agree, wondering if I have the patience to deal with her typical frustration. We’ve been using nothing but the Math Boxes curriculum since we got it a couple of months ago. She loves it and seems to be learning so I [...]
If you haven’t heard of Joyce Herzog and you are teaching a child with learning differences (which really means she just doesn’t learn well in a typical classroom) you are missing out on a bunch of helpful advice. The first time I heard Joyce was at my first homeschool conference back in 2004 in Indianapolis. [...]
My mom came to visit last weekend and one night Rose ran to get her Rocket Phonics book and sat with a word list and read it to grandma. She had read the words that morning but usually (with past curricula) she never gets to the point where she isn’t sounding out every single syllable [...]
Rose was tired today after traveling all day from her great grandma’s funeral on Tuesday. In spite of a foul mood and allergies, she was determined to do reading today. To her surprise and mine, she read words like “long” “ring” “bring” and “king”. She was pretty proud of herself. “Five letter words, mamma!”
Today Rose sounded out her first sign. She sounded out the word “public” when we parked in front of a store. I almost cried. We have done 9 sessions of Rocket Phonics and she is moving quickly and starting to feel much more confident. I think she thought I was nuts when I started clapping [...]