Southern Red Oak

9/25/2008
We have to go on campus twice a week for Ryne's speech. His speech is for 2 hours each day...I watch him in his class for a little bit and then we go for a walk around campus and I do some of his lessons there. Here Peyton is on the patio area outside the Union/Student Center at SFA doing some math. He can now count to 100 by 10's perfectly...and 100 by 1's - he can only do that if he counts the rollover 10 number by 10's...like if he is at 39, he has to go 10, 20, 30, 40...then he goes to 41, 42, etc. He knows 89 to 90 and 99 to 100 - and 29, 30...but gets stumped at 40. He does some addition and subtraction on it. I do subtraction by 'take away', and he does it no problem.

I got a magnifying glass for Peyton so he could observe things up closer and with a better view. This has come in handy looking at things we observe outside on our daily walks. Here Peyton is observing a yellow flower we came across









This is a picture of the roots of a tree that fell down...Peyton wanted to go look at it today. I didn't see any bugs to observe under there. Ryne goes on our walks with us sometimes...but I do try to do the walk when the 2 young ones are sleeping sometimes. It's easier if he wants to go 'into' the woods. Catdog followed us again today...







I figured out another leaf...it's a Souther Red Oak. It's right by our sand pile. The leaves on the tree did have a few different shapes. So now I'm up to knowing 4 trees in our yard...;-)

And for phonics...Peyton is on his 4th letter. He has done O, L, G & is now on H. He can read the word LOG & HOG - he also knows "NO" on his own. He wrote the word on the dry erase board yesterday and I asked him what that was and he said "NO, N-O, NO" So he can read "No LOG". We also got him to read "DOG & FROG". Peyton actually really likes phonics...and he says he likes doing lessons. So I'm thankful for that. We are still reading Tom Sawyer. We are more than 1/2 way done. We switch between a few other learning science books "Sun Up, Sun Down", "All About Ants" and a butterfly book. Spanish...I need to find a way to get him excited about it. He did a little today since I used a more exciting voice, but he gives me this glazed over look when we start Spanish...he really likes learning new signs for sign language though. He knows his alphabet, 1-10 and probably 20 other words right now. I'm so proud.

Can you see a bird in here? I drew a few of them to help him because he wanted to draw something he HEARD today...which was a bird. He drew the bird after he doodled a few numbers and letters...his #7 is backwards and 9 isn't right...but he was running out of room. ;-)