not quite so short
She watched Clifford yesterday and it was all about drawing and how you don’t have to be dead good to do it. So today we went to Partners to stock up on glue etc (we do this regularly!) and she spotted a little notebook with plain pages and asked for it. It is now her sketchbook! She drew a scarecrow with fantastic attention to detail then “signed” it and wrote the day as I said artists always date their work. ( So that was handwriting taken care of then!!!!) She also drew me and Tim and insisted taht I drew her!
This mornign though we had a real breakthrough - she has finished Study Dog. She’s been so close for ages but those ****** 2 sound consonants are a total mystery to her. So I actually dropped the “what does it sound like” and did “if it’s a c and it’s followed by an e the chances are it sounds more like a capital than a little one” There were only a few of those to deal with (it was the “oral comprehension” at the end of the whole thing) and after she got past those she romped the rhyming words (because if they end the same they probably rhyme…) and the find the word ones (because if you put your arrow over them they are read to you so you just need to remember what you are looking for!) and we got to see Dr Zeeeee being made visible again. Cue ice cream with chocolat buttons on top for a celebration!
Yay, well done Becca!!!
Comment by Joanna — November 16, 2005 @ 9:42 pm
well done becca. we couldn’t get through the 2 sounds thing either, and SB stopped doing studydog altogether because of it. I might see if she fancies restarting somewhere else though.
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Comment by jax — November 16, 2005 @ 11:52 pm