Cairn read Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and then I found a youtube video of the short film I remember from being a kid. So she watched that after reading the story. She is also learning about vertebrates - yesterday was fish and today was frogs/toads. She was excited to tell me about the difference between the two especially since I never really knew the difference.
Skylar is learning how to add. They put a lot of emphasis on the order of the numbers and it doesn't change the sum if you change the order of the numbers. I wish I had done more of this with Cairn because she can recite it but when she sees problems she always solves them even if you point out the one that is related. Hopefully, Skylar will drill it in. She has also starting spelling words. Skylar is like Cairn as in she doesn't want to spell anything unless she knows it is correct so I hadn't stressed the phonetic spelling phase too much until I knew she knew her sounds and could write the letter that matched the sound. She seems to be catching on quickly. I am seeing some of those reversals again and I am not just talking about the the letters. She will write the entire word backwards. I should have taken a picture to demonstrate because it boggles my mind. Then when she read her book, she read the title backwards. I don't know what to think of it.
Skylar and Andrew did a pattern art piece. Whenever the paint comes out they like to just cover the whole sheet with color and not really do what is asked. So I let them do a whatever page first and then we went back and slowly did the assignment. Skylar commented afterwards, that she liked her 2nd piece better because it looked like something. I let the comment hang - I didn't want to do an "I told you so."
Andrew also had piano today. I wasn't worried but thought we might start struggling with playing some upcoming piano pieces but not after today. His last song he played on a set of 3 black keys. He really struggled with getting his fingers in the right spot and playing the keys individually. I know he is young for this class so I wasn't worried but like I said knew upcoming songs might be super hard. Today, we learned our first song on the white keys. He did fantastic. He was able to move his finger individually and he knew his finger numbers.
After piano we came home to wait for Girl Scout leaders to stop by to turn in their paperwork for our Fall Sale that ended on Sunday. Andrew said he wanted to practice riding his bike like he did at the muster so I took the training wheels and pedals off his bike and then off Skylar's too. The bikes ended up being too tall for both of them because they have to be able to put both feet on the ground for step, step, glide. They were very frustrated so I said, "do you want to try riding with the pedals on?" Andrew immediately said yes, Skylar was hesitant. So I put Andrew's pedals back on and viola...here is the video.
After Skylar say Andrew do it, she did it too. Now I have all 3 kids without training wheels!! Super proud. I remember at the beginning of the summer, Skylar was worried that she would never learn how to ride a 2 wheeler especially after her friend, L, learned. I told her then that by the end of the summer she would be able to ride a 2 wheeler. She did it!
Congratulations to Andrew and Skylar on learning to ride a two-wheeler. We really enjoyed the video. Nana & Cappy
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