I need to think of some more clever titles, I think. ;)Below is what I posted on facebook today about Alan's school day. So now I'm all caught up, and you are too! Tomorrow I will post right onto here about what our Friday school day will be like! Now I have to go make spaghetti because a certain 5 year old is requesting it for dinner! :)
Today for Alan's home school, we added a number "4" to his calendar and
he wanted a special mark on it like on the first two days, so we used
the "sunny day" magnet to note that today was sunny, and I said that
every day we have a sunny day all year, he can move that magnet to the
next day. We also talked about how there are 12 months in a year, and
30-31 days in a month (except Feb), and how there are about 4 weeks per
month. Next we sang through the alphabet twice. He's getting
the hang of it more with a visual, but still messing up a few letters
(like H and I and J). I want to get him a bit more confident with the
visual first, then test his memory without it in the coming weeks. We
also finished the powerpoint I made him starting with letter M on
phonics of letters and pictures that start with each letter. He's more
getting the hang of listening to the sound at the beginning of the word
to determine if it goes with a certain letter. I then had him trace
numbers 1-10 in his workbook and had him write them on his own. After he
traced and then I traced one with him (both of us holding the pencil),
he did pretty well at the numbers he wrote on his own. Lastly, he did a
trace the dots picture 1-10 of a dinosaur in his workbook so that I
could segue into some "current events", an article I found this morning
about dinosaur bones that were discovered, because Alan is pretty into
paleontology stuff right now.
Article:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/09/04/dinosaur-skeleton-discovered/15031803/?csp=fbfanpage
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Some Cuddlers
Hey! Here is some other update news I forgot to share! Since 2012, we have added to the family! We have adopted 2 cats to the family, Jean and Jasmine. Here is a picture from today of Alan cuddling our smaller and younger cat, Jean.
Second Day of School
Today for Alan's home school, we added number 3 to his magnetic
calender, and talked about how there are 7 days in each week, and what
the days were called. We sang the days of the week song to the tune of
the addams family (you can look it up on youtube). We talked about
yesterday, today, and tomorrow and what they mean. I went through a page
of questions about what day comes after which, and then we put a page
of mixed up days in the correct order. Then, we did the alphabet song a
few times and did phonics up to letter L where I showed him pictures and
we made the letter sound and I asked him if each picture started with
each letter. Last, we did a math activity with play doh, spaghetti, and
fruit loops where we made a number line 1-10.
Alan's picture of a zombie alien
First picture I've really ever seen him draw. It is really rare for him to not just scribble, so this is a good sign.
First Day of School!
So back to school started for most people today. It feels a little strange still that I am not taking any classes. But it is really good that I get to focus on Alan and work on the next chapter in my life. Alan is still struggling developmentally in some areas, so we're still doing home school for now: working out of a workbook as well as doing some activities I get online. Today, we got off to a good start working with a magnetic calender he got for his birthday and talking about September and days, months, and years. He got to mark off Labor Day as a holiday for yesterday's date and for today, we marked "first day of school". We also already talked about Michael's birthday that's coming up and marked that off so we'll do a countdown as he is very interested in who's birthday is when nowadays. We also went through the alphabet several times because he struggles with alphabet order and recognizing some letters and he doesn't quite grasp the phonics angle yet with how letters sound. We went over some numbers next and he seems to understand a bit better the differences between 0 and 10 and all the numbers in between! We also did some greater than or less than and he did REALLY well with that! We have a budding math wiz in the family here it seems! We also talked briefly about nutrition and food groups as he is very interested right now with what's in his food and how and why it's good for him and helps his body, like yesterday he asked how cheese was good for him. So that's all for the first day!
An Update!
So I haven't written a post in a while, and this was a DEAD BLOG, but I realized that I should post on here because I have been writing facebook posts every day this week of my son's school stuff. For a basic quick update, he turned 5 in August. We have been noticing certain developmental delays, such as he is still not completely potty trained (he pees in the toilet all the time and can wear underwear to bed and very rarely wets himself, but he poops in his underwear EVERY SINGLE DAY still. Sorry if that was too graphic for some people.), he doesn't draw pictures, just scribbles, and can't write his name or anything, just "A" and "L" and "X". (Guess I should have named him Alex, or better yet, Alx. lol) We have Asperger's Syndrome in our family (my brother and cousin have it), so we are talking seriously of getting him a psych evaluation in the near future to assess problems. Anyway, because of these delays, but especially because of the potty training, we aren't sending him to school right now, and instead, I am still homeschooling him for this year. He is five, but I am teaching him a preschool curriculum since he still needs help in numbers and letters. That's basically catching you up to date as to where we are now, so I'll post blogs on the past three days of school for you and then hopefully keep this up to date with all things about my son and his schooling! :)
Monday, September 10, 2012
Today marked the day that I officially started Alan's school work here at home.We are starting with the theme "all about me" and made a book that included his name, his age, the color of his eyes and hair, the colors of his shirt and pants, and the number of hands, feet, eyes, and ears he has (2). The last page we did was picking "this or that" pertaining to him, so the choices were "girl or boy", "sad or happy" (he picked sad. I think it is just because he seems to be more fascinated with sad faces for whatever reason), and (age) one or three. He was proud when I helped him hold up three fingers and he managed to do it himself after I showed him. :)
We also are doing the letter A sound for the whole week, so now he's going around saying, "a, a, apple." :) We tried practicing drawing and tracing the letter a. He likes tracing the raised flashcards with his finger, but is having a lot of difficulty tracing letters with a writing utensil so far.
We also need to work on circling a picture better, because he doesn't get this concept. He also doesn't get that when gluing something, like we did in the book today, he shouldn't put the pictures upside down or overlap them with another image, so we can't see the other image. But this is all okay, because today was his first experience with us doing something like this, and he's only been 3 for a month now.
The best part is that he was so proud of himself after he completed those book pages, and I was so proud that whenever I asked him his name, he said, "Alan!" which is a HUGE accomplishment for him. I'm so happy he finally understands name. He also responded that he was three today, which was also a first, so I am so happy. The other big accomplishment of the day was that I asked him, "are you a girl or a boy?" and he said "boy", then he said, "you a girl, Mama". He understands opposites like this quite well, so I was happy that he indicated that I was a girl, and he was a boy, because in the past, he's called me a boy. :P
I will post the photos of the pages of the book we made soon!
Here is the video we watched today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xChg1vBZVuo&feature=my_liked_videos&list=LL7ApVFcuKxx_U3fahWhrLDA
We also are doing the letter A sound for the whole week, so now he's going around saying, "a, a, apple." :) We tried practicing drawing and tracing the letter a. He likes tracing the raised flashcards with his finger, but is having a lot of difficulty tracing letters with a writing utensil so far.
We also need to work on circling a picture better, because he doesn't get this concept. He also doesn't get that when gluing something, like we did in the book today, he shouldn't put the pictures upside down or overlap them with another image, so we can't see the other image. But this is all okay, because today was his first experience with us doing something like this, and he's only been 3 for a month now.
The best part is that he was so proud of himself after he completed those book pages, and I was so proud that whenever I asked him his name, he said, "Alan!" which is a HUGE accomplishment for him. I'm so happy he finally understands name. He also responded that he was three today, which was also a first, so I am so happy. The other big accomplishment of the day was that I asked him, "are you a girl or a boy?" and he said "boy", then he said, "you a girl, Mama". He understands opposites like this quite well, so I was happy that he indicated that I was a girl, and he was a boy, because in the past, he's called me a boy. :P
I will post the photos of the pages of the book we made soon!
Here is the video we watched today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xChg1vBZVuo&feature=my_liked_videos&list=LL7ApVFcuKxx_U3fahWhrLDA
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