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More Evening Reading Activities
Aidan seems to be in a pattern of doing his literacy-activities in the evening. This is from an old activity book that he happened to come across (I picked up a folder and accidentally scattered the...
View ArticleSunday Strategizing
I uploaded these checklists to help get us through the next few weeks before we phase into summer. Weekly chart for Kieron (year 5) Weekly chart for Sean (year 8 ) Aidan’s Therapy Sheet Paddy seems to...
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the word book for Aidan
This is what Aidan and I were working on this morning – (Disclaimer: I don’t have any formal Montessori experience — I can’t even get the hang of reading the books about Montessori at home — so this...
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Games for Learning
Planning for next year — looking up file folder games mostly for the little ones, but I think Kieron might like helping me with some of these too. File Folder Games – collection of links. Some more...
View ArticleWednesday — Learning Notes
I spent most of the day on decluttering projects. The middle boys did their Wednesday work. Tuesday, since I was gone all day, they didn’t do any formal academics. Monday they got to take one subject...
View ArticleCatch-Up again
We’re still here; it’s just been busy and we all ended up with a cold. No one has done any formal academics. I am going to give the boys one more checklist for them to finish in the next week and then...
View ArticleBreathing to Reading
For the past month or so Paddy has been telling me to trace the words with my finger as I read aloud to him. It’s funny because I clearly remember John Holt writing that he once thought to be helpful...
View Articlethoughts on language and competence
Paddy says, “I want to have TEN sausages.” Aidan says, “I beat Michigan Viejo.” I am struck by how at this pre-academic stage, the accuracy is not the important thing for the children. I explain to...
View ArticlePretend Play
Once at Early Intervention, a mom brought in her 2 year old for evaluation while Aidan was doing occupational therapy in the same room. The little boy was doing imaginary play with dinosaurs while his...
View ArticleLiteracy Progress
I brought out our beginning phonics books yesterday in order to plan a bit for next year — 100 Easy Lessons and some sheets I made last year. Paddy and Aidan both picked them up and started working on...
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