1) He is left-handed. This is challenging when it comes to teaching writing, but we are taking it slow on purpose. I'm trying to get him to focus on pointing his pencil "up" instead of down. He also has tended to have an awkward pencil-hold even without other lefty troubles added in. He'll put his fingers in a funny position that doesn't at all look comfy! He's improving on this a lot already this year.
2) I don't generally do a lot with a pencil at first. We write in corn meal, shaving cream, in the air, etc. while learning phonograms.
2) Over the last couple of months he has gone from getting physically tired of writing very soon, to doing entire sheets of exercises so I'm very pleased with his progress! A year or so ago, I was having him attempt to write his name. It was just too hard. A pregnancy and a new baby later (= significant break from school), he is back to practicing this now that he is getting more steady with his hand. -Just a developmental thing really. I have a book that has tracing exercises (not letters, just exercises) that has contributed to his progress, so we are back to practicing his name! Right now he is doing a combination of practicing those written phonograms in the shaving cream or corn meal, and then tracing his name. I use this worksheet generator to print out his traceable name.
3) He is also learning to put some phonograms together to make simple words. He is unscrambling these little "word pockets" that Nana bought us years ago when Isaac was his age.
4) He enjoys making up addition and subraction math "stories" and is getting better at writing his numbers too.
5) Andrew is also enjoying learning about countries & cultures in our "My Father's World" curriculum. More and more he is doing the activities with his older siblings, including playing the geography game! More on that another day!
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