Friday, February 6, 2009
Reading Challenge
I have been trying to teach Mark to learn to read at his own request. He is bright and capable, but on Lesson 32 of 100 we hit a wall and I was frustrated and he was crying and it was just no fun for either one of us. I was about to abandon the entire process when Alex encouraged me try to say a prayer before and break the lesson in half and not do it all at once. I wasn't all that convinced, but I said I would try this last time. So, for the last few lessons we have done those two things. Sometimes I say the prayer and sometimes Mark does. His prayers are very sweet. Well, to Alex's credit, so far this has been extremely successful and sweet little Mark yesterday said with much enthusiasm, "Mom, saying a prayer really helps!" Yes, Mark, saying a prayer really helps!
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What a great experience! By-the-way, in addition to the prayer (because you definitely shouldn't stop that), one chocolate chip or marshmallow per task can help a lot. We'd get out all the different kinds of chips we had, and marshmallows, and for each task they'd pick a different one. Good luck!
I am so impressed with both of you, and with Alex! I recently bought that book (. . . in 100 Easy Lessons) but am waiting until Andrew is a bit older to begin. I don't want to turn him off to it since he gets so easily discouraged. Little Mark is so cute. HOw is the running going?
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