Hello all,
This year my third child Z was supposed to be a JrK. He is pretty old for that group with a November birthday. In reality he screamed through first grade math with not a lick of difficulty and then proceed to learn to read and write in cursive. Right now he is wrapping up Storytime Treasures (fairly) neatly in cursive. Basically, he did first grade this year with his older brother. We don't use full cores, so mostly my questions have to do with language arts. Stortyime Treasures is a big stretch for him in attention and neatness. He doesn't love reading at the moment (this is a MATH kid) so I am loathe to try to get him to jump up to the level of second grade literature. The length would intimidate him, both the books and the amount of writing required. (He doesn't struggle with the content per se, but he finds Little Bear chapters long, and sometimes he finishes his comprehension worksheets while I am helping someone else usually without complete sentences.) So what should I do with literature to keep the reading/writing requirements in line? What about copybook? One the one hand I want to maintain his cursive, but are the passages in the cursive books too long for a kindergartener? And his brother is doing Prima next year, what do I do when he wants to tag along? I bet he could do Prima, but he would hit a wall a year or two later. Honestly, he has amazing focus and stamina for a five year old, but we are getting to the point that it is hard to balance building a solid foundation, not boring him, and not expecting a second grade workload out of a five year old.
Also does anyone have any suggestions for books to try to interest a reluctant boy? He can read Little Bear without too much trouble, but the only books he likes are Elephant and Piggie (and we have read every one of those in the library, twice, at least.) Any other books to try?
Thanks for the advice,
Lena
This year my third child Z was supposed to be a JrK. He is pretty old for that group with a November birthday. In reality he screamed through first grade math with not a lick of difficulty and then proceed to learn to read and write in cursive. Right now he is wrapping up Storytime Treasures (fairly) neatly in cursive. Basically, he did first grade this year with his older brother. We don't use full cores, so mostly my questions have to do with language arts. Stortyime Treasures is a big stretch for him in attention and neatness. He doesn't love reading at the moment (this is a MATH kid) so I am loathe to try to get him to jump up to the level of second grade literature. The length would intimidate him, both the books and the amount of writing required. (He doesn't struggle with the content per se, but he finds Little Bear chapters long, and sometimes he finishes his comprehension worksheets while I am helping someone else usually without complete sentences.) So what should I do with literature to keep the reading/writing requirements in line? What about copybook? One the one hand I want to maintain his cursive, but are the passages in the cursive books too long for a kindergartener? And his brother is doing Prima next year, what do I do when he wants to tag along? I bet he could do Prima, but he would hit a wall a year or two later. Honestly, he has amazing focus and stamina for a five year old, but we are getting to the point that it is hard to balance building a solid foundation, not boring him, and not expecting a second grade workload out of a five year old.
Also does anyone have any suggestions for books to try to interest a reluctant boy? He can read Little Bear without too much trouble, but the only books he likes are Elephant and Piggie (and we have read every one of those in the library, twice, at least.) Any other books to try?
Thanks for the advice,
Lena
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