Tuesday, August 31, 2010

One small step...

We have started. It's scary, even terrifying, but Boy and I have started sitting down together for 15-20 minutes a day to do a lesson from Siegfried Engelmann's book.

Lesson #2 so far, but would you believe I am already enthusiastic about what I am seeing? We sit down, go through the 6 exercises, which includes Boy learning to write the letters, and then he gets a sticker for each of the letters he write perfectly by himself. No tracing, no connect-the-dots.

It might help that I got him a special Star Wars notebook and Superhero pencils that are ONLY for his school lessons *wink* Still...I'm excited.

We have started homeschooling!

Today in the mail, we also got our ID cards. I am "officially" a teacher at "Little Learners Preschool"! *giggles* Boy was very impressed with his student ID card, which has his photo on it and everything.  

1 comment:

  1. Kinda funny...but after posting this, I stumbled on a discussion at The Homeschool Lounge about what comes AFTER Engelmann. Interestingly, according to one of the responses, if your child completes the 100 lessons book they will be reading at a 2nd grade level. That is pretty cool.

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