Thursday, September 27, 2012

Today was a busy day , I started our homeschooling lessons with sarai aged 6 , we started with handwriting ,I am teaching her to write cursive , after handwriting we did math ,I am currently not following any curriculum this year goal for her will be for her to memorize all her math facts (addition,subtraction, multiplication,division). After math was reading ,she did indenpent reading then we read a book together.
Sarai is a very smart girl she is doing great on her reading and Hopefully she become a book lover.
Many times i feel sad and overwhelmed with the fact that i constantly feel like the girls are behind and I feel anxious to rush through materials. which is always a huge mistake. I just end being overwork and moody.
I just have to keep reminding myself that slow and steady wins the race.


Kenia (aged 8)is progressing slowly with her reading ,she is deff not at grade level which makes me feel horrible . since I am her teacher i cant blame anyone but myself.
even though her reading skill need improvement ,I must be proud of her for her math skills, she is doing great! . I am using saxon 5/4 . at the beginning of each lesson she gets a drill page of 100 addition facts she get 5 min to complete this sheet. I put on my stopwatch and she work the problem as fast as she can,unfortunately she haven't been able to finish the drill in 5 min .I am confident that she will soon.
She also did about 2hr of reading and practice her handwriting.


Eva did a lesson at readingbear.org . This is an excellence website to learn how to read phonetically . I also when to starfall.com  and we read Zac the rat.
I also using a Glenn doman method of reading with her which is the whole -word method. I believe both method are needed to be a great reader.
I know there is many arguments regarding which method is best. My thought are they both  good.

Noah who is 14 month old,I  do Little reader twice a day in English and Spanish and wink to learn Chinese twice a day. he knows many of his body part and understand both English and Spanish and some mandarin( which the older girls teach him)

I wish there was more hours in a day for I could keep enjoying my babies.

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