Today involve giving lessons to the kids, trying to get whatever work done that I could, and preparing for tomorrow (Wednesday’s) Seder. I am working with Ava and Ezra on proper essay writing, and with Aiden on paragraph writing and reading generally. He clenches his hand when he writes, which makes it painful for him write more than a few sentences. I am trying to teach him how to hold a pencil properly, since I learned this when teaching Ezra. Thank goodness we are in the age of computers - typing works much better for Aiden.
Today I caught Aiden reading a book on his own, and it brought me a huge amount of joy. He seems to find longer books daunting, and here he was reading a full length book. A few months ago I brought back reading to the children at night, and it seems to have helped a lot with Aiden. When it’s time to stop reading and go to bed, Aiden is often so immersed in the story that he’ll take the book or iPad to his room and try to steal a few more minutes of reading. Abigail, incidentally, comes out with surprising statements that reflect her understanding of the story.
This week, teachers have finally started to officially assign lessons to the students. Today Aiden wrote a short story based the google feature that allows you to superimpose an 3-D animal in your house, so that it really looks like the animal is walking around one of your rooms. The teacher asked students to write a story based on an animal being in their house, which I thought was a brilliant idea. Aiden spent quite some time on his story - instead of writing, he typed it up, which he much preferred.
Aiden’s story was very cute, although he had a number of run-on sentences. We corrected them together, which made me wonder if children learn more at home than at school! All the one-on-one attention must sometimes win out against a room full of students with one teacher to manage them all. Deep thoughts during our week 4 in quarantine/home school!
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