Gareth and I have been reading several titles in the Step-Into-Reading series lately. We’re working our way through level 1, one book a day, with me reading him the book first and them him reading it back to me (with help). In the process, we came across a book Gareth absolutely LOVED, as it combined [...]
On Friday I set up another phonics game for Gareth to try, using cards I made from this site. It was a perfect fit for the his reading level right now, and he seemed to enjoy himself. We played it as a simple matching game, like concentration / memory, though the cards could be used [...]
This afternoon I played some phonics games with the boys. I got the idea (and gameboard) for the first game here. We used a dice with 1-2-3-1-2-3 rather than the cards, and we adapted the rules slightly to even things up: Gareth needed only to say the sound the letter(s) made, whereas Daegan and I [...]
Gareth has been “doing homeschool” from a series of Evan Moor workbooks on word families. Here he is hard at work on the “-it family” (bit, sit, fit, etc.): The series we are using is Word Family Stories and Activities; we’re currently about halfway through Level A (Canada) (US). Each word family contains various simple [...]
I saw the kernel of this idea here, and thought this would be a fun activity for us with a few adaptations. This morning we set up the table with watercolour paint, brushes, index cards, a white crayon and a pen. For Daegan, I wrote the answer to a math fact on one side of [...]
We played a couple games with popsicle (craft) sticks last night. I got the first game idea from a blog post about making shapes (triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon, etc.) using sticks, but added a little twist of my own to make the game broader. I began giving each boy 1 stick. “What can you make?” [...]
Gareth is just starting to read, but knows his numbers, so I thought I’d create a simple matching / concentration game for us to play. I found words and numbers on this blog, and simply cut and pasted them to index cards cut in half: He began by putting the numbers in order, like on [...]