Biggest change
Independence and self-confidence
Best learning tools/curriculum
- Beginning reading skills: Headsprout -- expensive but he likes it and it has about a year and a half to get through the 80 lessons at the pace we're doing it (we take breaks quite often -- the pace of doing it every day was too much for his reading development. He should have it completed by about the end of May
- Math: Life of Fred Apples, Butterflies plus games, games and games (chess, war, skipbo, speed, monopoly junior, the Game of Life, allowance)
- Handwriting: iWriteWords app for iPhone (doable whenever waiting places for highschool brother)
- Learning activity: A weekly "bookclub" coop with friends where we covered a huge number of categories:
- Detectives
- Maps and compasses
- Ears and Eyes
- Native Americans
- Environment
- The Earth
- Learning activity: Junior FIRST LEGO League Snack Attack -- he LOVED being on a Junior FIRST LEGO League -- field trips, sharing LEGO's, watching youtube videos about how different ingredients are grown and processed (cocoa beans, sugar, etc.). And he loved telling people about his models.
- Learning activity: Stop motion animation with LEGO's -- by far, the best software for elementary students: Zu3D
- Most common obsessions: LEGO's (especially minifigs with weapons), nerf guns and battles, military strategy, wii games, free play with friends
- Favorite read-aloud books:
- Magic Tree House books
- Mary Pope Osborne's Odyssey series
- Favorite electronic games:
- Plants vs. zombies
- Anything LEGO or Mario on the wii and gamecube
Next learning goals
- Reading -- move further along the journey to fluent reading (challenge is getting him to "see" the words)
- Spelling -- part of reading
- Math -- writing out math problems -- his knowledge of math is great
- Handwriting, handwriting, handwriting
- More general science and social studies discussions
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