It's so much fun when they get into the math and reading games, isn't it? I just knew he would learn the PP Sight Words DVDs quickly! It's such a great series. Have you shown him the Blends and Diagraphs DVDs yet? Those are great too. Did you do Meet the Numbers with him?
For ReadingBear, I showed most of the vowels 2-3x, and the review one time. Beyond the vowels, I am showing presentations only 1-2x, depending on her interest, but I can't show the same presentation 2 days in a row because she gets bored if I do this. She loves Reading Bear, but she wants a new presentation each day.
So, if I repeat, it has to be separated by at least a couple of days. Right now, we are at the review for the second "unit." We usually go through one full presentation each day, sometimes only a couple of sections from a lesson and not always in the same sitting.
We go through the presentations on "sound it out quickly" now, as the "sound it out slowly" was becoming boring for her. I thought she was tiring of Reading Bear, but she would say "mas" (more in Spanish) every time a presentation ended. Once I changed it to "sound it out quickly" I saw progress again, and I saw the excitement come back. Amazing how such a minor thing can make such a major difference.
When she reads, she doesn't sound words out, she just reads them. If it's a new word, she pauses for a moment and then says it. I wonder if she's sounding it out in her head or if she remembers reading it before. She's not reading books cover to cover yet (except for the Priddy books or similar books with one word per page), at least not out loud, but she does love to help me read books, and we read a LOT of books!
As for math, we just started Little Math. I've had it for awhile but was never consistent and never got past lesson 10. This wasn't due to lack of interest on her part, it was just that we were doing other things for math. She loves LM though. She counts all day and likes to watch counting videos on youtube, even boring ones that are just of a person counting on a hundreds board. She counts pretty much everything she sees: puzzle pieces, books, etc. We purchased the RightStart curriculum but haven't yet started. I'm also very interested in Mortensen Math. I'm hoping to buy the blocks second hand or on sale. I wonder if the Math U See blocks would be suitable. I found some locally that are fairly inexpensive. We also use ideas from Marshmallow Math. I'm going to be purchasing large dice soon to play games with. I also saw the Learning Resources Math Mat Challenge that I think she'll like. She likes variety and can get tired of seeing the same thing repeatedly, so having lots of resources, for us, is important.
I will keep posting updates, and I hope anyone who is reading this will too!
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