Zakari
Writing Matters 3
page 36 - No joins, b, p and s
page 37 - No joins, g, j and y
page 38 - No joins, Capital letters
page 39 - No joins, letters that don't join to 'e'
Zak's handwriting is improving, although I'm not too concerned with cursive writing as such, because his printed handwriting is quite neat and he prefers to print anyway.
Maths Plus 4 Stage 2
page 101 - Grams
Zak has no problems converting gram measurements to the equivalent kilogram and gram measurements
page 102 - 4-digit addition
Zak competently completed the exercises on this page, and even solved the final 4 problems mentally!
page 103 - Number relationships
When a number sentence displays an addition or subtraction problem, Zak can complete the missing number, regardless of its place in the sentence, quite easily. He does, however, encounter some difficulty when the sentence is a multiplication or division problem, but I am noticing that it is more often than not a concentration issue rather than one of not understanding.
He has no difficulty in devising multiple number sentences that all have the same given answer, although when it comes to deciding whether two are the same where the answer is not shown, he appears to struggle, but again, when questioned (or asked what the answer of each problem is individually), he gives the correct answer, so I think it is a lapse in concentration rather than lack of understanding.
The same can be said of questions that ask whether two number sentences are equal, or whether one is larger or smaller than the other. He tends to confuse the greater than symbol (>) and the less than symbol (<), which is easy enough to do. Out of 9 problems, he only got 4 correct. I suggested to him that he work out each problem and write the answer above, and that would help him determine if the problems were greater than, less than or equal to each other.
Kaliah
Writing Matters 2
page 12 - L
page 13 - X
page 14 - Z
page 15 - Dowstroke letters - starting points
page 16 - Assessment of downstroke letters
page 17 - Anticlockwise letters
Kaliah tends to rush her writing, even when I tell her to concentrate and take her time. She has a little bit of trouble understanding what a verb is, and has difficulty in following written and verbal instructions. I was disappointed in her effort with pages 12 and 13, and had her write these pages out again as practice, but her writing did not seem to improve.
She needs to concentrate more; when asked to separate a list of words into groups of head-and-body letters, body-and-tail letters, and letters with head, body and tail, she had difficulty understanding what was actually required, meaning we had to sit and discuss each word and what kind of letter each letter was in every word (which is very time consuming!)
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Library
This week, we paid a visit to our local library, where Zak, Kaliah and Khaemon all became members. They enjoyed looking through all of the books and choosing which ones to borrow (of course, we were there for quite some time!)
Zak chose to borrow books from the Young Adult section of the library, which I encourage him to do, since he loves to read!
In future, I may have to look at what kinds of books Kaliah borrows, as I feel she needs to be challenged a bit and definitely needs to move on from the easy reading, Kindergarten type of books.
Khaemon was very proud of his selection (even though he just looks at pictures at this stage!) but he tends to make up his own story as he goes along!
Swimming
All of them are progressing quite well in swimming.
Zak needs to learn about stamina - swimming a lap of 25 metres with one breath is all well and good if that's all you need to do, but even in a lesson, there are many more laps to come after that, so he needs to learn to breathe when he needs to and to pace himself properly (which will come).
Kaliah needs to realise that swimming isn't all about fun and games. She is told the same thing every week about her kicking, that she needs to kick from the hips not the knees! She tends to have the same problem following directions here too. I don't think that one on one lessons are quite doing it for her, and the extra child that has been in her class lately isn't challenging her in the way we were hoping.
Khaemon is doing well, considering he is the only one in his class. I think he is really lapping up al the attention and trying really hard to do his best with learning freestyle.
Veygas was really stubborn this week, and spent alot of his lesson sitting on the side of the pool because he just refused to do anything in the water.
Saffryn is starting to splash alot more and seems to enjoy being in the water. She is constantly on the move, with a strong froggy kick. She usually tires herself out and falls asleep straight after her lesson!
Shopping
As usual, the kids all helped with grocery shopping and packing away when we got home. They are all learning the essentials of our weekly shop, and now ask me if we need this or that each week (which is good, cause sometimes I forget!) They also know the importance of putting away frozen and cold foods first!
Riv Kids
We actually made it to Riv Kids this week. It was good for the kids to catch up with their home schooled friends and I think they really benefited from the socialisation. The kids had use of the tennis courts , complete withe tennis racquets and balls (supplied by other families, as we don't usually play tennis!) They also had fun on the play equipment and Zak and a few of the other older boys constructed a marble run inside.
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