Play Dough time, which means plenty of mess!
The boys have been consolidating their learning over the past weeks since the last blog entry. We've just had an extended half term rest period, with Dad at home. Before that, continuing on with reading has been the order of the day.
D. has raced ahead with his word recognisition skills and is now on book 7 of the Ladybird Read With Me scheme - not bad, considering they only started the scheme back in early September.
D. on a roll .... a log roll!
By contrast, M. is taking his time. Not struggling, but definitely not confident enough with word recognition for me to push him too hard. He's on book 4 at the moment, and seems to enjoy his short but intensive daily reading sessions - so long as he's not taken away from some more interesting arts and craft activity in order to do his reading!
We've played some more Missing Vowel games, making it harder by using Consonant-Vowel-Vowel-Consonant words like 'look', 'book', tool' etc. We've also discussed dipthongs in some detail and filled out a number of activity sheets on the use of dipthongs, with pictures to be coloured in afterwards. The boys seem to enjoy these activities too, with their little sister joining in where she can.
Highlight of the past few weeks has to be my purchase of the Alphapet book, with accompanying CD, an alphabet-based animal 'story' which the kids follow in the book whilst listening to the CD. It's a fun activity for all of them, with colourful illustrations of animals, and there are also places for the boys to repeat words they're looking at in the book, to reinforce spelling etc.
Elementary, my dear mother.
Favourite new half term toys include a sort of Sherlock Holmes kit for them to play detectives, with a notebook and pen for clues, plus magnifying glasses. They've been watching Basil the Great Mouse Detective, and then searching the house for clues ...
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