Erick’s Prize

By Children Rising | January 31, 2013

Erick finished his first book worm and is starting to fill in titles on his next book worm. The prize that he picked was a orbit ball which we immediately discovered bounces in unexpected directions when dropped.

So far, Erick has read twenty-two books and knows the majority of his sight words. He is working on long vowels, like in the words “gate,” “teeth,” “bite,” “slow,” and “cute.” I also found out that he really enjoys doing word puzzles and looking at the miniatures that we keep to teach similar sounds.

Most recently, we looked at the “wh” and “th” puzzles, and put together “thorn,” “bath,” “whale” and “white.” Then we looked in the “wh” and “long e” tubs that had in them models of a tree, whale, wheat, set of teeth, whistle, cheese, whiskers, the number three, and two wheels. We talked about why there are two wheels (because it starts with “wh” and also has the long “e” sound!) and then we mixed up the objects and Erick separated them into their two groups. Then he rolled the two wheels in a synchronized manner to make an invisible bike.

Erick informed me that the next prize he would like to claim is the pull-back race car. With the rate at which he is reading, I think that day will come soon.