Today was the start of Week 5 in quarantine. I tried to continue working with Aiden on a narrative piece. I followed a great step-by-step guide that I purchased on a website called "TeachersPayTeachers", which is basically etsy for teaching. But I think the full narrative piece was a bit too much for Aiden. He is great at creating paragraphs, with prompting, but couldn't quite get to the next stage of adding an introduction, paragraphs with transitions and a conclusion. He just wanted to free style. On the one hand, I want him to enjoy writing and let his creative juices flow! On the other hand, I want him to learn how to structure his writing.
In the afternoon, I had the kids do a craft activity. We haven't had much time for crafts, but I want to build a good rapport with them and thought this would give me some "cred" in their eyes. It also had an educational component, which made me happy. The kids designed a "counting of the omer" calendar, which is for counting the 49 days between Passover (liberation) and Shavuot (revelation). They enjoyed the activity but didn't quite finish - hopefully they'll work on it tomorrow.
Aiden has been enjoying a book called Inkling - we alternate reading pages. It is still an effort for him to read his pages, but he's improving every day and I think he is locking into the power of reading. Dan caught him reading the Guiness Book of World Records on the couch today. It is such a pleasure to see Aiden (and all my kids) casually curled up with a book!
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