Small Accomplishmnets

This school year has already proven to be challenging.  Jonathan has homework every night and he doesn't really care for it.  He would rather come home and play not do more school work.  He is expected to study spelling and read every night.  Last week was his first spelling test.  I has so happy when he brought home his pre-test on Monday and had only missed three out of ten.  I thought for something that is completely new to him that was great.  By Friday he had learned them all and got them all right.  This Monday he also missed three but is working hard to get them all right on Friday.

Every night they are to read their AR book (Accelerated Reading).  These books are leveled and are based on their STAR test results.  They have to read them 3-5 times and then they can take the computer test over it.  On Friday he brought home his first AR book.  It was the Three Little Pigs and he was so excited to read it.  He tested over it on Monday and missed two so he had to retake the test after reading it another 3-5 times.  The second time he got them all right.  He is not used to taking tests nor being on the computer for something other than playing games.  I was so pleased with him and the progress he is making already this year.  Now he is reading The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss and doing very well with it.