Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Today our focus is to work and build on our multiplication table.  I found an awesome website that does all the work for me.  For tables and worksheets of all levels visit Math Drills. We are slow going on the mulitplication as we are only on our 3's but considering our local public school hasn't even touched on it, I feel like we are doing adequate.  We plan to work through the summer on our studies so we should cover some ground then.

Our biggest struggle is to get Sparkles reading.  You know how they tell you each kid is different...well Sparkles fits in that category.  She excels with everything you give her but she has ZERO patience with reading.  We have completed an entire Phonics workbook "Adventures in Phonics Level A" by Christian Liberty Press.  She had all the spelling correctly mastered.  However, pointing to the word withOUT the picture is torture.  So, we are working on a different method.  Flash cards and a alphabet puzzle.  Sparkles uses the card and spells out the word with the puzzle (works with words without repeating letters).  Seems to be less frustrating for her but she is not as excited anymore with this practice.  So, any help or suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated!!! Keep in mind she is only 5 years old but I know she has the potential to catch on if I could just find the correct approach.