Kindergarten with Ty: an adventure!

The creativity and humor of my son make homeschool an adventure.  No map can prepare me!  No curriculum is without adventure!

 

PreK was by the seat of my pants...he was eager and learned a lot.

 

My biggest issues were and still are learning how to teach him and keeping him motivated.

I mean how many times can you read Mary Had A Little Lamb and take a test on it resulting in 40 or less?

Just imagine...a screen (or paper, which ever) is in front of him. He knows the nursery rhyme by heart...knows when the laughs come, knows all about it.

 

He is asked which animal did Mary have? Given the choice of a dog, chicken and a lamb, he is gonna choose a different animal each time and giggle.  ARRRRGH!  Armed with coffee and a patient smile pasted on my face, we reevaluate the situation.  He is grinning up at me. 

 

OK...why cant Mary have a dog? Or wouldnt it be fun if it was a chicken!

 

Okay let that one go because we know missing one out of five is still passing. 

Deep breath...where did the lamb follow Mary? To a barn? To School? To the store?

 

Remember this is a kid who loves the page where all the kids laugh and play!  Certianly he will choose the school, right?

 

When given the choices he goes for the barn FIRST!

NO? He giggles. Next he wants the store...forget it.

 

Does he know the material? Yes he does. He chooses to be wrong. How do I know?  I have come to love ABA. 

 

In the search for motivators I find that he loves play dough. If I hold play dough out as the reward for answering a question correctly, guess who gets the answer right each time? As long as he gets the can of playdough after each question right now we are fine. 

 

Do I have enough playdough to get through this coming year?   I have come to realize in the search for motivators, varity and non-perishable are better.  Holding out for larger blocks of time before awarding said motivator is imperative.  Yup, he has to want it bad...as bad as I was correct answers from a boy who really knows the answer. Will we be able to use ABA and fade out the motivators?  Ha! 

 

Yup, kindergarten will be by the seat of my pants too, LOL!  The only map I have is the lead he gives me and it is quite and adventure!   Think I can keep up?  We are gonna have fun trying!