Eva is really enjoying 1st Grade. Every morning after breakfast she asks, “Can we do school now?” She reads really well but is still self conscious about reading aloud. She tries to read fast like her friend Kasey who is a year older, but I encourage that it’s better to slow down so she can make fewer mistakes and people can understand her better. She’s chomping at the bit to learn to write cursive like Kasey, too, so I promised her that we can do that next year in 2nd grade, once she’s got printing well in hand. She can write full sentences with punctuation now.
In history, we just finished learning about the Egyptians and now we’re moving on to the Greeks. Eva is fascinated by the pictures of how people used to live long ago. In science, we’re almost done with the Usborne World of Animals and soon will start studying about the body, what makes you sick, etc. I’m saving the science experiments for summer since the weather will be warmer and they will make for fun outdoor activities.
We’re using a math curriculum called “Singapore Math” that Eva is really enjoying. It uses a method that they use in Singapore and other Asian countries, teaching students to break down larger problems into smaller parts, solve the problems and then add the pieces back together. It’s not how I learned to do math at this age, but it makes it so much easier to learn, and even do in your head, that I think perhaps math might not have been such a nemesis for me if I had learned it this way.
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