Reading Time

When Corbin takes a nap, Reese and Quincy have reading time. Keeping a summer jounal was a success last summer to help Reese stay fresh on her writing skills, so we are doing that again, this year.  She writes a page about something we did that day or the day before, then adds and illustration. When she's done, she reads for 20 or 30 minutes.

Quincy's writing might be "behind" for her age, but she is flying through the kindergarten sight word rainbow.  I found a great website with printable activities that uses almost the same sight word list as her elementary school.

I also cut out and laminated all of the flashcards from the Cooper Kindergarten packet and we spend a short amount of time reviewing them and I add a new word or two every week.    I'm realizing how often she looks to Reese when she doesn't have an answer for something. Rather than make a guess, she always asks Reese if she is correct, first. Reese, of course, totally loves this and always offers prolific assistance that often becomes counterproductive to Quincy's progress.  I've had to separate them and send Reese to another room when I work on writing with Quincy, because Reese hovers over Quincy's shoulder and corrects everything that she does.  She is very loving and encouraging, but Quincy needs space to be independent.  It is good for Reese to be in another room, anyway, because she gets distracted and focuses on Quincy's work, rather than doing her own.  She wants Quincy to be able to read so badly. It's really sweet.   

We finished reading Stuart Little together, and I got the movies for the children.  It is fun to hear them compare the differences between the book and the movie while they watch, "Hey, Mrs. Little's ring fell down the tub drain, not the sink" and "That's not how they met Margalo"...things like that. It makes me happy to know they were paying close attention to the little details when we read the book.  I love that my kids enjoy books as much as I do.

Also, in the past week, Quincy has started to pick up all of her pens and pencils with her right hand, place them in her left and then write/color. She still switches back and forth for some letters, but I think she will eventually favor her left hand for writing.