Getting Better

So our second week went much better then the first did. Brenna got her math and her spelling finished everyday with little protesting. She's been practicing writing her numbers everyday and there has been a drastic improvement in just five days. She no longer writes some numbers backwards and is forming them much better - I am very proud!

I have been really impressed with her spelling as well. I purchased this curriculum called Sequential Spelling and it basically just starts with small words and then they just build on each other. For example, the first day her words were in, pin, sin and spin. She does not study the list at all. Her spelling time basically just consists of a spelling test that she corrects as we go. I have a little white board that AFTER she spells the word on her own then we break it down together. That starts teaching her the patters in words (like the -in in sin, ect..). If she gets it incorrect then she erases it and fixes it. The second day the words were pins, sins, spins, kin, skin, win and twin. The third day introduced the word be. By the forth day she was spelling words like pinning, sinning, winning, begins and inner. She kinda had a hard time with the first -ing word but by the end she was doing great! A lot of women in my homeschool group have used this before and I heard nothing but good things about it. So far it has been wonderful!! We have been working on her writing as well, along with the spelling.

Brenna has also been practicing and perfecting her left from her right. Grandma Dawn bought her a video game for our Wii and it is a Hannah Montana dance moves game. And I tell you what - she has learned her right from her left much better THAT way then me trying to teach her! LOL

Anyways, here's a picture of Brenna's spelling test from her forth day. She wanted me to post it so everyone could see how well she did. :)

And here is a pictures of Brenna mastering her left and right. LOL