Week 18 - Review

This week was filled with some amazing accomplishments and snow days!

One of the 4 year olds, confidently said she'd like to read 312 words. I explained that this was a lot of words but if she wanted to read them then we most definitely could.  Her 5 year old friend asked to count for her.  And so it began!  1 1/2 hours later with a few breaks she read 312 words...and her friend kept track. This was such a wonderful moment to witness!  I typed up the words that evening and sent a copy of them to her mom and her teacher at St. Mary's School in Goderich and both were very proud of her for doing this.

We also have another child reading her very first chapter book, "Nate the Great". She read 32 pages before lunch and decided to take a break and try some other activities for the afternoon.

Other children were working diligently on colouring some flags of Europe. There was a legend at the bottom of the page so they had to read the number and colour and then colour the flags properly. Once the flags were coloured they set to work looking through the "Flag Book" to find the same flag and copy out the country name.

One little guy who is 3 wanted to spell the word "monster truck".  So, I carefully made each sound.  He told me the letter name and I printed it out for him. He was so happy to have spelled his first word...and one that he chose himself.  Next, he drew a picture of it!

There is also much work being done in the math department.  Adding and subtracting...reading equations and figuring out the answer.  Some children are using objects, while others are using pencil and paper.  It's really quite exciting watching the way these concepts come alive for them.