Seeing Sight Words

Here's another thing that I had no intention of doing with the boy this year- sight words! But he's keen and I go where he goes. It was his choice to have them on cards, his choice to write them on the whiteboard- he does it often! He likes to pick out the letters that he has done a good job of writing. :-)  And he does it well.... I'm just a little bit proud of my little smart cookie!

Pre-writing

So much of this going on right now- lots of symbols, letters and numbers- the trick is when he asks me to read back what he wrote. We're working on that pencil grip too- normally it's just a matter of saying "Are those two tricky fingers hanging out together again?"

Writing and Drawing Just Because

Tama choosing for himself to do some drawing and writing. He adds his name to most of the work he does- I'm guessing this is a throw back to Kindy. :-)

Letter Works

A super simple language activity looking at letter sounds and shapes.

Telling Tales

Tama dictated a story about the Homeschool meet-up and then added some illustrations to complement the photos we printed.

Letter to Grandad

Tama's Grandad lives in New Zealand. They keep in contact via email, phone and snail mail- which is probably Tama's favourite. His grandad sends him pictures of the construction stuff he has going on at work and Tama finds him cards and postcards that he likes.

Sketching and thinking

We picked up a $2 calendar with images of Western Australia at the newsagents. Tama picked his favourite image and he talked about what he saw and why he'd picked it. Then he collected some leaves to sketch to compliment the report he'd given me.

In his spare time

There's lots of writing practice going on around here- all the time. The Whiteboard seems to be a kid magnet. :-)