Wednesday, January 20, 2010

More School Time

Posted by Fringe at 9:25 PM

I work with B-Man a few minutes everyday on the basics so that when he starts school he won't be bogged down by all the little things, like numbers, alphabet, sight words, etc...

He does fine, but I can tell that gets bored doing the same things over, and he learns much faster if we play a game than just push through it. So I've been looking through a bunch of books I got from the library and found a few new ways to teach him.

This one is called "Word Pyramid". I pick 10 words to work on for the week and then we sound them out together. Once he has them down then we start the game. He gets to go first and if he reads it correctly, then he can color the block in (with orange obviously) if he misses twice, then I get to read it and color it in with my crayon. You work up the pyramid until you put the last "brick" on and then whoever has the most colored bricks wins.

This one is called "Road Block". I use the same 10 words from "Word Pyramid". The concept is the same, but we both drive cars. He gets to go first and read the word. If he gets it right his car gets to move a space, if he gets it wrong (twice) then his car hits a road block and it's my turn. (Sometimes I have to mess up too, but he has to catch me in my mess up. If he does he gets a free turn.) First one to the end wins.

This one is called "Sound Detective". First I start by telling him a long story about how I'm an author, but I can't write anymore stories because somebody has stolen my sounds. If only I had a really good detective to help me track them down. (This is where B-Man usually says, "I'll be your CSI." LOL which I have turned into Criminal Sound Investigator.) I have already hid the cards (in very obvious places) and then I say, "I need to find the sound mmmmm" and he has to go looking for the M. We go through all the cards. He loves it.

This one is his "I Can Read Box" He is a very independent little boy! He can't wait to read his own books anytime he wants instead of having to wait until I'm able/ready to do it for him. So I made up this box for him. Each week he gets to choose 3-5 words to put in the box and we work on them all week. These are this weeks words. They can be anything he wants. (As you can see.) The first day we did this, he carried the box all over the house with him. It was pretty funny.

 

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