A friend at church told me about this fun website for kids to help them learn to read. I had my kids try it out and they love it!! Best of all, it’s FREE. It’s called Starfall.com and has interactive games for children ages 3-7. I added it to my list of fun websites for kids HERE.
I just had my son Ephraim evaluated by his aunt, who is a certified teacher, on Saturday. The whole thing took about 2 hours. I printed off the Florida State Standards and Benchmarks for Kindergarten and wanted her to see where he was at.
It seems as though I did a good job teaching him basic level things like reading, writing, addition and subtraction. But now I need to take the lessons to the next level and start teaching my son how to use the information in a more in depth way – “critical thinking”.
Here I was thinking that my son was almost ready for 1st grade when in actuality he doesn’t even understand what “beneath” means. He also has a hard time following two and three step instructions and applying addition and subtraction to life situations.
I bought $80 more of curriculum to help me with this task. I found a new website called www.criticalthinking.com
I started the school year with this book because of the positive reviews it received on Amazon.com. The first few lessons seemed really boring to me but by Lesson 5 I understood why it was important to teach in this strange style. We just finished Lesson 15 today and my 5-year-old is actually starting to read and my 3-year-old is speaking better. WOW!! I can’t wait to see what the results will be after Lesson 30. Will my 5-year-old really be a solid reader after 100 lessons? I’ll keep you posted.
Atlantic Strings Violin Shop is having a Back to School Sale! You can get a child’s violin, bow, case and rosin all for $109.00 + tax. We went this week and had my eldset son Ephraim fitted for one.
