Shopping day today, and with the cooler weather, we all went. It's getting to the point where I could probably send Zak and Kaliah in by themselves and they'd be able to do our weeks' shopping!! They are really helpful around the supermarket, getting things that I can't necessarily reach down to get (not with Saffy in the carrier and attached to me anyway!) Plus they know what we usually get and ask if we need things this week - it's great!
When we got home from shopping, the kids put everything away, even being careful to note the dates on the milk and put the earliest dates first!
After lunch, they did school work.
Zakari
Today, Zak continued working from last years Writing Matters 3, just so that we can concentrate on maintaining his handwriting. He completed pages 22 - 25, all work on practicing and revising diagonal joins. He admitted to me that he doesn't like cursive writing because he can't keep it neat, and I can understand that. His printed writing is beautiful, but once he tries joining letters, his style becomes awkward. We can only hope that practice makes perfect!
Kaliah
Kaliah's maths book of choice for this year is Targeting Maths Year 2, and today, she completed pages 2 (The hundred chart), 3 (Patterns in the hundred square) and 4 - 5 (Numbers to 100). She was able to competently count by 2's, 3's and 5's up to 20, and answer questions based on theses counting patterns. She was able to look at a group of numbers and work out which ones were more than 80 and which ones were less than 50, and also correctly put all of the numbers in order from smallest to largest.
While Kaliah doesn't seem to have a problem with working out numbers that are one more than or one less than a particular number, she does appear to struggle a little bit when asked for the number before and after a given number at the same time. It took her a while to realise that they were actually three consecutive numbers.
For the most part, she also does well with ten more than and ten less than a given number, in theory, but when asked to verbalise it, or to explain how she got the (correct) answer, she fumbles - I don't know if it's because she is afraid to give the wrong answer, or that she thinks she might get into trouble because it's wrong, but she goes about then guessing answers (which are inevitably wrong!) even though she has the right answer on paper. So I think it's a confidence thing that we have to work on with her.
Khaemon
My First Maths Book is the book that Khaemon is working through at the moment. It is a large quarto sized book with pictures to colour and help reinforce the number concepts. Today, he completed pages 2 - 5 (numbers 1 - 4) by tracing each number then repeating it many times on his own. I like this because there is very little pressure on him to get it "right the first time" and he is rewarded for hard work by being able to colour in afterwards!
Veygas
Not wanting to be left out, Veygas has a Letterland First alphabet activity book which will help him with letter recognition and keep him occupied with pictures to colour.
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