Week One in Review

Well, our first week back to school went FAST!  And we got a lot done too.  We took a break on Tuesday to head out to Hamilton to meet up with some friends at a splash pad/park.  Summer library program has started up again, and we joined in on Friday.  It was great to see so many people this week that we haven't seen for a few months/weeks.


My treasure has been very resistant to starting grade two, so I am easing her into the school rhythm this year.  Her first block is getting caught up on the grade one form drawing that we didn't do last year (opps!).  I'm certain that I'm not teaching form drawing right, at all.  But we are trying to get through and learn what we can so we will be ready for the grade two form drawing block later this year.  It is certainly challenging her, making her slow down, concentrate, pay attention...  So, maybe we're doing more right then I think ;)

She is also working on her sight words daily.  She was pretty overwhelmed on day one when she saw the new stack of them in her envelop, but she whipped through them like a superstar.  ALL of her grade two sight words up on the wall before the first week was even over.  She has now chosen to start working through the grade three sight words that I have for her.  Some of them are a little more challenging, but she already has half of them up on the wall.  The awesome thing about her sight words this year, is that she is actually looking at ALL of the words.  REALLY trying to read the ones that she doesn't know.  Listening to me say them, and sound them out.  Sounding them out on her own.  AND, she adding her own sentences to each of them (even when she's unsure of what they mean, which can be quiet comical).

Reading is the last part of her daily "MUST DO" work.  She reads a phonics reader and an emergent reader.  I have a LARGE selection of them.  We put out a few at a time for her to pick from.  Once she is confident and proficient with them, she reads them to Daddy before bed, and then they go away to make room for her new ones.


Silly Joyful is starting our her final Kindergarten year with a block on Shapes.  This week we read Robot Zombie Frankenstein.  What a fun book that was!!  We also focused a one specific shape for 2 days each.  This week we did circle, square, and triangle.  We did tons of work to support our Robot story, and ended the week with some Cherry Pie :)