Assessment

In anticipation of educating Owen a bit more formally at home this year, I decided to see exactly how much he actually knows. We started with letters. Since he is reading a little, I know he recognizes all the letters, uppercase and lowercase, and can produce the phonetic sound for each. But we have not practiced writing very much, outside of his name. O and I sat down with a big bag of markers to see what he could do. (He wrote each letter himself without any help from me.)

He at least attempted every letter. A few are kind of sketchy, especially 'z,' 's' and 'k,' but overall I am one proud Mommy!

Numbers are quite a different story. We haven't tried writing them (except for '1'), but I know he can only recognize up to '10.' We definitely need to work on that!

I am so super excited to dive in to teaching preschool! We have a stack of shiny new books, a box of early readers, and craft supplies galore, plus tons of fun ideas for Bible class. Stay tuned...