Kfamily
09-23-2009, 06:20 PM
I created a very thick language notebook for my dd (6) because she didn't fit into categories very neatly. I retyped Primary Language Lessons in Italics (the handwriting program we use) and combined it with a google book entitled Language Lessons. The latter book was a good fit because it used higher levels of material for reading (to learn beginning narration, etc.) but did a lot of the instruction orally or what was written I found I could adapt. Anyway, I added some copywork from Peter Rabbit and Friends (which I am reading to her...and yes, she could just as easily read it herself but I want to read aloud to her some) and I mounted some art prints and included an art study sheet and placed those in every 20 lessons or so and this is what I intended to use for her this year. Today I had a very small but sinking feeling that this is still not right. I think the handwriting level is fine (she writes pages on her own but I want to develop her form correctly) but I think a lot of the work is still too easy. She just changes so rapidly I can't keep up. I think we will stick with the notebook (I put so much time into it!) but I will probably try to triple up on some lessons. This is not as much as it seems-many of the lessons so far are oral. I was showing her some work still to come in her notebook and some of the things we would be getting to and one example was a lesson on initials. She then preceded to show me how well she already understood how initials work. She gave the initials to everyone in our family and then started with friends.:lol:
She thrives on this... I gave her a reading list (like her big sister and she was thrilled-you should have seen her eyes light up and said, "You mean I get a reading list too!) with the books obviously designed with her in mind and she has read both her book choices. I gave her a list and said to choose two from it. She choose the only two books where I had asked her to read the whole set. She read Tales From Odyssey which includes 6 books and the Betsy-Tacy stories of which I have 3. She then started reading from our main school list which included Door in the Wall. She finished it in a matter of days.
We read literature and history in the afternoon and I read hers first so that she can go play while her older sister and I continue. My older dd is reading King Arthur and my younger dd takes the book off the table (when we are finished reading and have moved on to another) and starts reading it herself. I don't share all this to brag...not at all....I just need someone to understand how hard this can be. I don't seem to meet enough of her needs and it doesn't help that this keeps changing.
I let her join in with French this year and thought she could do the easier lessons from L'Art de lire but instead she's doing the whole book with us. She finishes only minutes after my older dd so I know it is not too difficult. I decided to sell Song School Latin since she almost cried from embarrassment at the style of this latin program. I decided to skip Latin altogether this year since she's doing more French than I expected and also Code Cracker Greek with her sister. I also dropped it since I have no idea what latin program I could use with her anyway.
I'm sorry to go on so long...I really wish others could understand that this can be so difficult. I can't speak this way to anyone else.
What do use to meet your child's needs-especially in English/Language? What would you do? I need help....:001_smile::lol:
She thrives on this... I gave her a reading list (like her big sister and she was thrilled-you should have seen her eyes light up and said, "You mean I get a reading list too!) with the books obviously designed with her in mind and she has read both her book choices. I gave her a list and said to choose two from it. She choose the only two books where I had asked her to read the whole set. She read Tales From Odyssey which includes 6 books and the Betsy-Tacy stories of which I have 3. She then started reading from our main school list which included Door in the Wall. She finished it in a matter of days.
We read literature and history in the afternoon and I read hers first so that she can go play while her older sister and I continue. My older dd is reading King Arthur and my younger dd takes the book off the table (when we are finished reading and have moved on to another) and starts reading it herself. I don't share all this to brag...not at all....I just need someone to understand how hard this can be. I don't seem to meet enough of her needs and it doesn't help that this keeps changing.
I let her join in with French this year and thought she could do the easier lessons from L'Art de lire but instead she's doing the whole book with us. She finishes only minutes after my older dd so I know it is not too difficult. I decided to sell Song School Latin since she almost cried from embarrassment at the style of this latin program. I decided to skip Latin altogether this year since she's doing more French than I expected and also Code Cracker Greek with her sister. I also dropped it since I have no idea what latin program I could use with her anyway.
I'm sorry to go on so long...I really wish others could understand that this can be so difficult. I can't speak this way to anyone else.
What do use to meet your child's needs-especially in English/Language? What would you do? I need help....:001_smile::lol: