English 3, Maths still under review

"Mom, what work have you got for me today?" Oh, what precious words to hear!!!

Today Jonty had to catch up with his English. He'd not been able to do any writing because his books had not arrived yet, but praise God now they have arrived. So he did his first bit of written work. He enjoys writing and he's good at it. He did some spelling and handwriting, and then I dictated some sentences and he filled in the gap words. he did well. He spelled "went" as "wend" but I think that's just because he has a blocked nose at the moment. He read it a few times and spelled it out phonetically yet insisted that it was right. Must be the nose.

Then we did lesson 3. We re-looked at his book, he was not happy, he wanted to move onto the next one. I explained that we do this book for the whole week. He accepted that... Today he had to re-read the story with feeling. He gave it stick!!! It was not just a big room it was a beeeeeeeeeg room. Kipper did not just look up the chimney, he looked uuuuuuuup the chimney - neck extended way up. So sweet. He did really well.

we worked on the CH sound which, thanks to about a year of speech therapy, was a breeze. Blessings come in unexpected ways.

Then onto maths -

I did some check up tests for Jonty. I had some concerns afterwards. I was feeling a little bit unsure, should I start at Term 1 rather, could I really begin on Term 2 when Jonty was asking basic questions about vocab??? And how could I teach the new concepts well?

But now this is where the beauty of having a tutor to contact is so evident. I e-mailed Moira, our angel in the UK, and she was such a help. Moira answered within the hour!

Jonty is normal. All kids, even kids in the UK, struggle with the this vocab... and based on what he did do and did answer, in the test we can confidently proceed with Term 2 as the concepts do get consolidated. Moira offered some tips and games for teaching the new concepts and new ways of thinking... she suggested 2 websites for additional resources. WOW! This is an awesome way to homeschool!

Tomorrow we start Lesson 1, Term 2.

We're doing English and Maths from Monday to Friday. Humanities on Saturdays, and Science on Sundays. I am hoping that Humanities and Science will be more like doing a project on the weekend than "school". From what I have seen of the lessons I am quite confident that it will work out that way. The lessons are really interesting, relevant and fun.

I use the word "fun" a lot, don't I!??

Good!