Plodding right along

Actually plodding sounds like it has been hard work, and it really hasn't. Jewel is really enjoying the Get Ready for the Code workbook. The first day she insisted that we do an entire lesson on one of the letters. She got tired and frustrated before we were done, and it became a chore. Since then I've limited her to 4 pages at a time. She is doing so much better. And enjoying it. Today she couldn't remember how to draw a "b" that we had worked on last week, but she remembered that she could look back at the lesson and did it all on her own! That is a big step, because usually if she can't remember she just gives up. We are revisiting the seasons and the months. She thought she had forgotten it, but she seems to be recalling more than I had hoped. Over the weekend she was busy teaching Flower to say "I'm two" and then helping her count to ten. Flower mainly just repeats what Jewel says, but it is definitely learning. Then out of the blue this weekend Jewel counted all the way to 40. She had not been able to get past 15. Yippee!

This was the Christmas of games. So we have been playing lots of games. Dora card matching, dominoes, Go Fish, Candyland and "My First Scrabble" which has been great to practice sounding out words. At least 2 nights a week have been family game night with Daddy. It is good for the girls and it reinforces what we are doing during the day. YAY!

This week I'm going to add in reading a higher level read aloud to them while they are playing. We'll see if they retain any of it.

That's it for an update. More to come....