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After asking Mark today to help me teach Creston a few things in his workbook that I couldn't figure out how to get him to understand.....and after Mark tried, but couldn't get him to understand it either, we had a little talk (which resulted in ME flopping my head onto my arms on the dining room table and sighing loudly...) and decided that I should focus on the Alphabet and only the Alphabet until he got that down pat. Then Mark also said that I should also focus on having Creston work on his name......tracing the letters...spelling his name.....ect.

I had already decided to work mainly on the Alphabet and had found some activities to focus on, so that wasn't such an up-roar for us to decide to stay away from more advanced things. I just sometimes get frustrated that I'm not able to explain things correctly enough to allow Creston to "Get it" and it makes me sad.

However, we sat down with the following "A" tracing worksheet and he did pretty good with that!

Then, I had found this little printable that showed Upper ad Lower-case "A's" and had Vreston match the big and little a's to the page. He did this really well.

All was going good until the very end when I said "What letter is this again?" and he said "R!!!!" and looked so pleased with himself............head on table again......siiiiiiiiggggghhhhhhh.......

"We're done for the day, Creston....you can go play now....."

Creston Tied his SHOE!!!!!

I've been wanting to teach Creston to tie his shoe.....and last week, we talked about putting on his shoes, pulling the tongue of his shoe up so that it woudn't bunch up around his toes, and then I showed him how to pull the laces tight. Then I left it alone!!!

Today, I sat down with him and just slowly showed him how to make a loop and wrap the other lace around the loop, poke it though the hole, and then pull both loops tight! He did it!!! (With a little help from me, but he did it!!!)

We'll be practicing this a lot and he'll be an old pro in no time!!!!GOOD JOB, CRESTON!!!!

Some new ideas!!

I found several great homeschool sites at http://confessionsofahomeschooler.blogspot.com/,
http://www.homeschoolcreations.blogspot.com/ , and http://homeschoolcreations.com/preschoolcorner.html.


I found a lot of neat printables and ideas for teaching the Alphabet! Most sites recomend teaching a letter a week.....we may do 2 a week........we'll see!!! I'm still having trouble getting Creston to recognize the letters, so maybe these ideas will help!!!


Here's a cute printable of little "A"nts. There are several colors and you just cut the BIG A's from the little a's and then mix them all up and have the child put them together!!
Silly face!!! He thought that this was neat!

He did this in no time, so I suppose it was too easy for him, but it drilled the "A" into his brain!!

Then there was a "Put the "A"pples in order biggest to smallest". I didn't explain this too well, but after asking him which one was biggest and which was smallest, he put the rest in order!

He liked this too!

THEN...........Mackie wanted to CUT!!!! Oh me!!! I couldn't find the little scisors, so with me sitting next to him, I let him cut a few times on this big paper! He liked this too!!

It was a neat day! I'm excited to be finding new ideas and different ways that other homeschool parents are teaching their kids!!!