Today has been an eye opening Monday! Today I have realized that Ben is learning to read music!!!!! That's awesome. He has piano lessons once a week thanks to an awesome friend and her son who is teaching Ben to play the piano. It is really cool to listen to him learn to play! He loves music and loves to play. Allison may not be able to pronounce things but she is learning to read. This evening I labeled the kitchen and the bathroom with simple labels. I took her around and showed her the word for each thing. I asked her to take a guess at what the word might be and she could guess most of the words. She also recognized that dishwasher started with D and so when I asked her what the dryer was she tried dishwasher as an answer! I am amazed. Mary at 2.5 knows the names of so many things. She will not usually answer on demand but tonight she wanted to play the word game too and so she repeated the words I pointed to. I also have learned that Ben can add numbers that equal 10 or less. I plan to work on subtraction next, but I think he knows a lot. Its amazing what I hear that they know when I tune my ear to them. The older two know almost all of the 10 commandments with little prompting. It is hard for them to recite all of the commandments but they know them if you give them the first word. Ben is awesome with directions and knows North South East and West and can talk with you about what is in each direction or talk about how Ottawa is west of Marseilles. I am continually amazed by my sweet kids. Ben can read three letter words and will have his first spelling test this week. Allison is not as good with numbers. She needs to work on counting and number order. This post is almost a journal type assessment of where the kids are today. I really need to find some good assessment tools and take some time to do a real assessment of each of the kids so that I can effectively plan for school. I have not found a good tool yet for assessment but this encourages me to keep trying.
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