Fishing for words

Yesterday, at the suggestion of The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading I made up a game for Mane using specific word endings she's trying to learn. She had the word ending in front of her & a bunch of letters face down on index cards scattered on the table. We put paperclips on all the index cards. Then Mane used a pencil fishing pole (a pencil with a magnet dangling on a string) to fish for the letters. She then read the word made by the letter she "caught" and the word ending in front of her. This was such a great time for her that she practiced reading for much longer than usual and wanted to show the game to Mango when he got home.

Earlier in the day Mane finished coloring the states red & blue for the election, and she used math blocks to total the number of electoral votes Obama received.(This was a good exercise in geography, as well as learning about the election.) Today we will total McCain's electoral votes and do math test 16 in Math U See. I'm intentionally slowing her down a little in the math book to make sure she's solid in her math facts before we move into subtraction. She's been practicing math facts on Math U See's website.

I'm still mulling over what book to row for next week. I went to East Lake library today and all the Five in a Row Volume 2 books that they have were checked out already. Yikes! Perhaps we'll choose another that we already have at the house - Harold and the Purple Crayon or Albert maybe.