DS has been in first grade for about a month now and I see signs that he's getting a little too comfortable there, do you know what I mean? I went in for mathlab and I saw how he daydreamed through "morning opening" which is, admittedly, a mindnumbing exercise in repetition about the order of the days of the week and why we capitalize the names of the months, etc. I think it's a good thing that he only has another month and a half of first grade to go! He is beginning to tune out again. His handwriting is much faster now but sloppy.
Oh, and he did poorly on a spelling test--see if you can figure out why. Here is an excerpt:
Look at the underlined words. Find the one that is spelled wrong. Fill in its circle.
(a) The bike fell on the ground.
(b) Her face looks happy.
(c) The lemon tastes sour.
(d) All the underlined words are spelled right.
He also missed several questions on a math test about time because the pictures of the clocks didn't make any sense. For example, the time 3:30 was pictured as the minute hand on the 6 and the hour hand on the 3 (instead of between the 3 and the 4.) He was asked to draw what the clock would look like one hour later. Since the hands didn't make sense, he only drew the hour hand one hour later and didn't draw a minute hand at all...
