Cursive Handwriting!! and crossing the middle line?

Good Afternoon,

     I hope everyone's week is going amazing! Only one day left and it is Friday! I feel like this week has just flown by! But ready for a great weekend, Fuller House comes out!!!! Who else is going to watch it all by Monday? I know Monkey and I are, we have been planning this for months. Also we have a birthday party to go to, the birthday boy is turning 6, what do you get boys? We got him a castle tent I hope he loves it!

     Today though is not Friday, so we have been practicing spelling words! We did a practice spelling test and after Monkey completed it I rewrote all her spelling words in cursive. (BTW she got an A++) I just wanted to show her how cool cursive looks. By 2nd grade I had already learned cursive! I think it is so sad they do not teach it anymore. Though my name does not look that pretty in cursive. It is like a little mountain range is going on in the middle of my name.  

     But to the title of today's post, why do I mention the middle line? Maybe you are wondering what this middle line is. Well I am no expert on it, though what I have learned is it help cross the invisible line in our brain that connects our creative side to our academic side. There are exercises that can be done and different activities that can be done. Here is a great website that talks about it ilslearningcorner. 

     Also though I've read about cursive writing is able to help cross that middle line. Which make sense considering writing is a academic thing and cursive is an art. A while back I put a cursive handwriting activity together to teach Monkey, but time got in the way and I plan on teaching it to her this summer. But maybe one of you will have time now so I wanted to share it with you, and if not now hopefully later it will come in handy for you!

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Thanks Bunches for stopping by,

Hannah 

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Knowledge Check

Good Afternoon Everyone!

      I hope everyone's Monday went amazing! Ours had it's ups and downs but ended on a high note. We went to the Japanese grill, I WISH I could cook like them! I was so yummy though so I'll leave it to the professionals. 

      Also today marked the first day of the 5th 6 weeks. I have to say I do not like the 6 weeks increment thing. Where I Grew up we had four 9 week periods, which I prefer. 6 weeks is not enough time to give a fair assessment of your child's progress. If you live in Fort Worth ISD it was hard this year, to make the semester end before winter break the 6 weeks were under 30 day. I felt like Monkey was coming home with a progress report or report card every other week! 

      Any who, fingers crossed for and awesome 6 weeks! I am working on a lot of things for summer and we started summer vacation planning! Woot Woot! But until then I wanted to give you all something I made last year for Monkey. I wanted to see where she was truly at academically, so we knew what to work on throughout the summer. So I made her a Knowledge Check Test:

There is 14 pages total of work to be complete, half math and half reading.

This will help with getting an idea of where your student or child is doing well and where they are struggling.

Math has:

Adding with regrouping

Math Adding Facts

Place Value

Shapes

Money

Fractions

Word Problems

Time

Reading has:

Grammar

Constant Blends

Vowel Sounds

Verb Tense

Sentence Fixing

listening to reading 

** Not included** Also the one I made for monkey I had taken a Coloring page off google, that had a lot going on in it and had her write about what she thought was going on, **

Here is what the Place Value page looks like and a snip it of the Vowel Sounds page. 

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Let me know if it worked for you, and what you like and what could have been better or fixed! I love hear from you!

Till next time....

Thanks Bunches

Hannah

Story Explorers

Hello Everyone

         Sorry it has been so long, it has been a very hectic year. From some of the hardest struggle my family has experienced, to some of the best things to ever happen for us! But now it is 2016... which is already flying by!

         Though the learning never stopped! Monkey is now in 3rd grade and I am already getting things ready for the summer! Crazy! However I wanted to share somethings I worked on over the last 12 months. 

         Monkey has changed schools since last year. Her school rating now doubled from the school she went to last year, which has been a big challenge for her! We absolutely love, love, love her new school. Though she did start out academically way behind her 3rd grade class. We are so proud of her though, with lots of hard work she improved a whole grade level in 6 months, so now we are only a little behind. But with 4th grade is right around the corner there is no stopping! 

        Our biggest struggle is reading and reading comprehension! Which snowballs into every other subject. I didn't want us to just be able to read words though, I wanted her to comprehend it! So I created Story explorers for her:

This is to help your student dig deeper and think about there text, improving their reading comprehension.

It is one page that offers 6 different ways for the student to explore reading comprehension in the story they just read. 

It is not specific to any book, and can be used with a variety of different books and levels.

This handout will help with: Vocabulary development, prediction, character description and development, and providing details of the story. 

Here is and example of it:

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I hope this can help your Readers with their reading comprehension! Please let me know what you think! 

Thanks Bunches,
Hannah