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Jul. 23rd, 2007 04:09 pmSo...Brad has been hanging around the house for a week and half now. We aren't doing nearly as much site seeing as we had planned. Of course.
Today we had to take the cat, Buster, to the vet, and the girls have gymnastics so we didn't try to go anywhere. I did some school with the girls. I decided to back off a bit. I was stressing myself out trying to accomplish everything on my schedule last week. With Brad hanging around wanting to "do stuff" and the general summer craziness, I just can't get it done. After vacation, when he starts school again, we will hopefully be able to get it all done in a day. I don't know. Maybe not. I may have bitten off more than I can chew. We'll see.
Today, we just did our math lesson and our writing/phonics lesson. Maria has now almost mastered the entire lower case cursive alphabet. Zoe is definately having some trouble switching gears from what she was being taught in preschool. I'm wondering if I should just go back to manuscript for her. Today, as she was struggling to make a new letter, she asked when I would teach her "real" letters. Ugh. I don't know what exactly I'm doing wrong, but I need to figure it out. She didn't have the whole manuscript alphabet mastered, at least not the lower case, so I don't know why she is having trouble switching gears. But I do really need to figure it out. Don't get me wrong, she is happy practicing and we stop when she shows signs of frustration. She tells me when she is hitting a wall.
My big problem with Maria is she never wants to quit, even when she has gone way past her frustration point. She is struggling with the cursive letter "r". She wants to keep at it until it is perfect. She will seem frustrated, so I'll say "Let's stop for today." No, she wants to keep going, I think "Well, she must really want to keep going". I don't know why I think that, I should know by now this kid is a perfectionist that cannot physically allow herself to stop until it is perfect. But she just couldn't make it perfect today. I looked over at her finally where she was practicing her "r"s and saw tears on her cheeks. Poor baby!! Why do I continually not see that coming? We do this at least once a week, where I allow her to to way past the point where we should have stopped for the day. A success point, which is something I really strive to do. I think we recovered okay. I cuddled and comforted and then did something she was really good at with her and she seemed cheerful.
Now she is trying to play Snakes and Ladders with Luci. It is really funny, as Luci has her own ideas about rules. As any of my long time readers know, Luci is a rebel. If you give her a rule, she is going to try and break it. Games are no exception. I do not like playing board games, card games, or any game with rules with Luci. I avoid it like the plague. Good thing she has a sister that loves rules and seems really successful at enticing Luci to follow them with her.
Today we had to take the cat, Buster, to the vet, and the girls have gymnastics so we didn't try to go anywhere. I did some school with the girls. I decided to back off a bit. I was stressing myself out trying to accomplish everything on my schedule last week. With Brad hanging around wanting to "do stuff" and the general summer craziness, I just can't get it done. After vacation, when he starts school again, we will hopefully be able to get it all done in a day. I don't know. Maybe not. I may have bitten off more than I can chew. We'll see.
Today, we just did our math lesson and our writing/phonics lesson. Maria has now almost mastered the entire lower case cursive alphabet. Zoe is definately having some trouble switching gears from what she was being taught in preschool. I'm wondering if I should just go back to manuscript for her. Today, as she was struggling to make a new letter, she asked when I would teach her "real" letters. Ugh. I don't know what exactly I'm doing wrong, but I need to figure it out. She didn't have the whole manuscript alphabet mastered, at least not the lower case, so I don't know why she is having trouble switching gears. But I do really need to figure it out. Don't get me wrong, she is happy practicing and we stop when she shows signs of frustration. She tells me when she is hitting a wall.
My big problem with Maria is she never wants to quit, even when she has gone way past her frustration point. She is struggling with the cursive letter "r". She wants to keep at it until it is perfect. She will seem frustrated, so I'll say "Let's stop for today." No, she wants to keep going, I think "Well, she must really want to keep going". I don't know why I think that, I should know by now this kid is a perfectionist that cannot physically allow herself to stop until it is perfect. But she just couldn't make it perfect today. I looked over at her finally where she was practicing her "r"s and saw tears on her cheeks. Poor baby!! Why do I continually not see that coming? We do this at least once a week, where I allow her to to way past the point where we should have stopped for the day. A success point, which is something I really strive to do. I think we recovered okay. I cuddled and comforted and then did something she was really good at with her and she seemed cheerful.
Now she is trying to play Snakes and Ladders with Luci. It is really funny, as Luci has her own ideas about rules. As any of my long time readers know, Luci is a rebel. If you give her a rule, she is going to try and break it. Games are no exception. I do not like playing board games, card games, or any game with rules with Luci. I avoid it like the plague. Good thing she has a sister that loves rules and seems really successful at enticing Luci to follow them with her.
