it’s really not a garden of kinders
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missbuster replied to your post “LOLLL thursday”
What I do with kids this age is help them sound out the word, like segment and repeat the different sounds in the word, so they can map the sounds into letters they know. That might work well for Girl 5. 6 seems confident enough to use his own knowledge.
That’s mostly what I do.
The boy is extremely confident, and one thousand percent completely wrong. We had just puzzled through the word “school” together, and not two minutes later, he was to write “school” on his sheet of paper, and he very confidently sounded out, sss, c-c-c, oo, oo, L! and wrote down “sokoh”. What! Then I told him how to spell “house” and he rejected that and wrote “haws”, which at least has the benefit of having the phonemes in the right order, so I let it stand, but his justification was that his method was shorter, and I was like, the entire point is that someone else can read it, dear, and he seemed taken aback by this. So it’s a work in progress. He is definitely getting to be a more comfortable reader though so I’ll take it– I think he’s improved in the last two weeks already.
The girl, however, really likes to melt down emotionally– like, she’s actually fairly tough most of the time, but once in a while she’ll pick something and flip out about it? You can kind of watch her work herself up over something she’s decided she needs to be upset about, and it’s weird, and her mom is not great at diverting her which is I think why she does it? She’s got this weird need to control her mother, which is bizarre– anyway, I can usually head her off from this by alternating being stern with being silly, but I’ve just sort of developed this feeling when we’re doing writing stuff– often, what she’ll flip out about is that something she’s done a thousand times is suddenly “too hard” and she “can’t do it”, so if I try to make her do something too challenging when she’s not in the mood, it’s this huge pointless stupid fight. So I’ll make deals with her before there’s any sign of upset, and I’ve been working with her on helping her write by making her do all the words she knows already, and then I’ll make her sound out the ones I’m sure she can get, and then if I know there are non-phonetic bits or a word is more than seven letters long (and not a compound of shorter words she knows) I’ll just give it to her.
(The problem in this is that of course I’m a 40 year old woman fluent in English, and I don’t remember learning to read, and a lot of times I don’t realize a word doesn’t make any phonetical sense at all until I’m halfway through it. And I’m sure I’m giving away too much, but I’m mostly just trying to get her to come along on momentum so we can do more cool stuff, so.)
In the evenings after the kids go to bed we’ve been hearing a lot of talking over the upstairs hallway baby monitor and tonight MathMom finally found out what’s been going on:
They’re homeschooling their stuffed animals. Every night after bed, the boy sets his up and gives them ninja lessons and then sleeps during their recess. The girl sets hers up and is teaching them to read. 😭😍
missbuster replied to your post “LOLLL thursday”
What I do with kids this age is help them sound out the word, like segment and repeat the different sounds in the word, so they can map the sounds into letters they know. That might work well for Girl 5. 6 seems confident enough to use his own knowledge.
That’s mostly what I do.
The boy is extremely confident, and one thousand percent completely wrong. We had just puzzled through the word “school” together, and not two minutes later, he was to write “school” on his sheet of paper, and he very confidently sounded out, sss, c-c-c, oo, oo, L! and wrote down “sokoh”. What! Then I told him how to spell “house” and he rejected that and wrote “haws”, which at least has the benefit of having the phonemes in the right order, so I let it stand, but his justification was that his method was shorter, and I was like, the entire point is that someone else can read it, dear, and he seemed taken aback by this. So it’s a work in progress. He is definitely getting to be a more comfortable reader though so I’ll take it– I think he’s improved in the last two weeks already.
The girl, however, really likes to melt down emotionally– like, she’s actually fairly tough most of the time, but once in a while she’ll pick something and flip out about it? You can kind of watch her work herself up over something she’s decided she needs to be upset about, and it’s weird, and her mom is not great at diverting her which is I think why she does it? She’s got this weird need to control her mother, which is bizarre– anyway, I can usually head her off from this by alternating being stern with being silly, but I’ve just sort of developed this feeling when we’re doing writing stuff– often, what she’ll flip out about is that something she’s done a thousand times is suddenly “too hard” and she “can’t do it”, so if I try to make her do something too challenging when she’s not in the mood, it’s this huge pointless stupid fight. So I’ll make deals with her before there’s any sign of upset, and I’ve been working with her on helping her write by making her do all the words she knows already, and then I’ll make her sound out the ones I’m sure she can get, and then if I know there are non-phonetic bits or a word is more than seven letters long (and not a compound of shorter words she knows) I’ll just give it to her.
(The problem in this is that of course I’m a 40 year old woman fluent in English, and I don’t remember learning to read, and a lot of times I don’t realize a word doesn’t make any phonetical sense at all until I’m halfway through it. And I’m sure I’m giving away too much, but I’m mostly just trying to get her to come along on momentum so we can do more cool stuff, so.)
In the evenings after the kids go to bed we’ve been hearing a lot of talking over the upstairs hallway baby monitor and tonight MathMom finally found out what’s been going on:
They’re homeschooling their stuffed animals. Every night after bed, the boy sets his up and gives them ninja lessons and then sleeps during their recess. The girl sets hers up and is teaching them to read. 😭😍
