homeschool works!

last week, nicholas learned to read the numbers 11-20. he's known 1-10 for a long time now. we read baby books with 1-10 in them all the time so they were easy.

i tried a couple different methods to try to get him to understand. i printed out these jan brett 1-30 cards. i laid them all out and we looked at them together. once he realized that counting to 20 was just like counting to 10 but with a 1 in front, there was no stopping him. he read all the cards over and over. Then had daddy read them with him too.

This was last wednesday. On saturday, we went to target. When we got in line to check out, he noticed that the next lane over was empty and he said "hey! not 16, let's to over to 17!"

Using numbers in a real life situation. I like it.

He got this toy for Christmas that is a white board with a pen attached. The pen, instead of ink, is a UV light. When you write, the white board turns purple. It's called a light sketcher.

(Honestly, i hate the thing. It's plastic and uses batteries. The 2 things I constantly tell people not to get for them.)

He was scribbling around with it christmas night. I glanced over and he'd written a letter N! I told him he'd done a good job then went back to whatever I was doing. I looked over again and he'd written N-I-C-H. whoa! he needed me to tell him the next letters but that was a really great start! we've never gone over how to spell his name or practicing writing it before.

He learned how to write it just from seeing it written and practicing the letters individually.

Homeschool works!