9/18/2008

We were without power for the weekend, and we got our DSL internet back on Thursday, so I'm behind already on posting...

We went in the yard and found more trees down. We inspected the roots and other things by the trees. Peyton drew a tree down in his picture - it's on the bottom left. He drew another train track...he likes to draw them for some reason. Then I have a worksheet I printed up for him to practice writing his 9's. He drew a few backwards, but he said he was drawing "P"s. They are good P's. Then I have a few sheets of him writing his name. He's doing really well writing his name.

Now that he can write his name, I have started phonics. He's ready for it - he really knows all the sounds the letters make, but I'll go by what the curriculum does. We did "L" & "O" last week. I went through 2 weeks of lessons in 1 week. I showed my friend Heather the Phonics curriculum I got from the library...and she said her daughter is bringing home the EXACT same worksheets. I thought that was interesting. We worked on writing 5's this week too. I think he can write all the numbers now.

Peyton can count to 100 by 10's (10, 20, 30, 40...) perfectly. We are still working on counting to 100 by 1's. He can do it, but when he get's to the 9 number that rolls to the next 10, he gets confused...so I make him do the 10, 20, 30 thing and then he gets it. Soon he will have it.

We got some books about ants and butterflies and have been reading them. Peyton has been interested in the ants since he saw the ants eat the cricket. We went out to the yard and disturbed a few ant piles - I wanted to show him how when you disturb them, they run for the eggs to take them off and protect them. Today (Monday 9/22) when we went to some of those same ant piles, we disturbed them again, and the eggs weren't there...a few ants were, but all the eggs were gone. He asked where they went, and I of course, don't know that. But it's fun seeing the ants go crazy...I just wish they didn't bite. I did get one bite out of disturbing them-I was using a stick and one crawled on the stick and got me.

In the one ant book, Peyton was very concerned about the carpenter ants eating the wood in a house. He was concerned that they would come eat our house. So when we get that ant book out, he turns to that page and asks lots of questions.