She really enjoys learning her sight words from 1+1+1=1 I can read program and each set comes with a printing practice worksheet. The only actual printing worksheet my DD will do. So I put them in page protectors in a booklet with a dry erase marker and make it available to her whenever she is ready to work on them. This seems to be the only printing worksheets that she will even think of doing.
The next thing I have started with her is journaling. She has both a regular journal and a math journal where I write questions in it and she writes the full sentence to answer that question. I help her with the spelling, and it has been a great way to introduce the period at the end of her sentences. Because we call this journal time she does not view it as printing practice and is more than happy to do the work.
I can already tell a big difference in her printing compared to what she was doing last year at preschool. This is definitely going to be the bulk of our printing practice for this year. As the year progresses I will use questions that will require longer answers, and will also start some copy work using some small poems that she enjoys and quotes from her favorite stories.
Just as a side note, the little book with the early printing lined paper was picked up last fall when school supplies when on sale. I was able to get four of these books for less than $1. I was even able to pick up 4 more this fall on sale for $.10 each. I love a good deal.
This has to be why I love homeschool so much as compared to public school. If a child does not like to learn something one way, you can try something else. In public school, if they don't get it the way it is taught, then you need to spend the extra time at home to do it and the poor child is stuck doing nothing but school work all day and doesn't have any time left to just be a kid!
I totally agree with your final paragraph!! It is so true - good for you for working to find something that works for your child!
ReplyDeleteMy son loves telling me what to write - it is usually something kind of silly (but interesting from a 5 year old perspective ;) ), and I write it out for him on his whiteboard, then he copies it into his journal. I have found that if he can decide what he's going to write about, he enjoys it more than if I pick something out. I think the poems are a wonderful idea too, one that I will be using - thanks for sharing!