We're finally up to learning long vowel sounds - long a (spelled a-consonant-e) and long e (spelled e-consonant-e and ee). When we did long a, Tigger did great. Pooh did okay, but he caught on. I played reading games that afternoon with both of them, and then that evening I worked with Pooh one-on-one. Then the next day we did long e. Pooh really struggled with it. He was on the verge of tears a couple of times. Tigger did fine. Then, that afternoon we played a couple of reading games. Pooh really worked hard to read the words correctly. It might take him several seconds to think about it, but he read most of them correctly. Tigger, on the other hand, kept missing them. I was a bit suspicious, though, that he was missing them so I would play a reading game with him one-on-one.
So, needing "Exploration Day" to land on Wednesday, we took a few days off following the MFW 1st grade manual and just spent time each day reading books, playing reading games, doing fun little math things, etc. Yesterday, we were playing reading games and Tigger kept missing words I knew he read the day before. Then he finally said, "You're going to have to play games with me tonight, because I keep missing words." A-ha! I knew it!
Today we picked it back up (as it was finally Wednesday), and did our Exploration Day. We started with verses, and then looking at a picture in the red Come Look with Me book, reviewed our science book, read some of our library books, played with Pattern Blocks, and played a reading game. For the reading game, I had the boys spread the cards around the room and then I would call out a word for them to find. Pooh did better than Tigger at this, which really surprised me. They LOVED this game. In fact, it was really hard to calm them down to get them ready for P.E. class.
We'll be ready to start back at day 21 tomorrow.
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