It's been almost a month since I started Reese on Horizon Math Grade K and so far, I am happy with his progress. He can write all the numbers. He is now working on single digit addition, ordinal numbers like 1st,2nd and etc, more advance shapes like octagon, reading calendar, counting money like pennies and dimes, reading time and also counting in 10's.
Horizon Math Grade K has 180 lessons to be done over a year of schooling but currently we are working on 2 work sheets (15 to 20 minutes) a day and about 4 to 5 times a week. We are already on lesson 35! Looks like we will finish way before the end of school year... hehehe...
**My son loves to connect dots/pictures (counting objects), draw stars, scribble all kinds of stuff on the worksheets! At first I felt it's not right and told him not to do so, he was obviously not happy. After that lesson, I sat and thought about it. Should the worksheets be kept clean like what we had been taught or should we allow the child to scribble or draw some stars as rewards? Well, why must we keep it so clean and nice? why can't the child do whatever he wants as long as he completes the work properly? right?
So... now, I allow him to scribble, draw his own stars and markings here and there... I even allow him to use marker pens to write as long as he completes his work and understand what he is doing! Learning should be fun.... do whatever you think is right! :)
Here are some samples of our very messy worksheets! Hehehehe....
See those x (small and big) marks? those are suppose to be stars drawn by Reese...
See those connected dots? Every time we do sums with dots... he will want to connect them all!
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