Cursive Writing 101 : Cursive Letters E, F, and G

Hi guys, will share you another set of Milzon's writing. I'm just having a hard time helping Milzon to correct his "Henmanship" haha. LOL. I used to call it henmanship because he writes like a hen haha. But i'm sure, with continuous practice, he will soon learn how to write well.
Anyway, here's another batch of our cursive writing.

He did pretty well on his "E" but there were some erasures.

His "F" is like a nightmare LOL. He got confused with it which resulted to many erasures too. This one needs a lot of practice.

Anyway, after that horrible "F", he did well on his "G". Much neater than his "E". No erasures, just perfect! Cheers!
By the way remember Milzon's Assignment? I'm right! They had a spelling exam and guess what? Milzon got the highest score. Only him among all his classmates got the highest score. He scored 19/20 , making me sooooo proud... this calls for a celebration yay!

Learning The Dolch Word Part 2

Many of the 220 Dolch words can’t be “sounded out” using common sound-to-letter implicit phonics patterns and have to be learned by sight; hence the alternative term, “sight word."
If you missed our first Dolch Word session, you can check it here
Here 's the second set of words:
"me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, you, all, am, are, at"
After reading the words repeatedly, let's see if Milzon can pronounce the words properly.

He was able to memorized those words easily and now let's check if he can spell those words correctly. Let your kids spell the words in random order. I added the 2 misspelled words from our first quiz (Down and Little)
Tadah! Aside from his "HENmanship" he committed many mistakes this time. He was able to spell the word "Little" correctly which means I can now eliminate this word in our next spelling quiz. However, he failed with the "Down" word again.
Other misspelled words Where - wehre , You - Yuo, Yellow - Yellw, Three- Trre, One- Onu.
Never scold your kids by the way. Scolding will keep their motivations away. You should support them instead. Correct their mistakes in a right manner.
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Anyway, Milzon has an assignment today, His teacher gave him set of words to memorize. I bet they will have a spelling quiz tomorrow.
(Milzon's notes) He's really messy don't yah think haha. I think I see Mirasol in him when she was just in Grade school. Anyway, wish us luck.
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We will post a new Cosplay craft in our next post. Cheers! Hapy blogging everyone.

Learning the Dolch Word Part 1

The Dolch Word List is a list of frequently used words compiled by Edward William Dolch, PhD. The list was prepared in 1936. The list was originally published in his book Problems in Reading in 1948. Under the copyright laws in effect during the time of publication, the Dolch word list is out of copyright.
Dolch compiled the list based on children's books of his era. The list contains 220 "service words" that have to be easily recognized in order to achieve reading fluency in English. The compilation excludes nouns, which comprise a separate 95-word list.
Many of the 220 Dolch words can’t be “sounded out” using common sound-to-letter implicit phonics patterns and have to be learned by sight; hence the alternative term, “sight word." Although the list is divided into grades, for native English speakers, all the words in the Dolch should be mastered by the end of 1st grade.
(info source: Wikipedia)
Actually, same thing goes here in my country. The Dolch Word should be memorized by kids before reaching the third grade. I started to teach Milzon the first set of words last week. I decided to teach him 22 words per day.

Here's our first 22 words
"a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make"
Now here's what we did, i let Milzon be familiarized with the words first and then I told him the meanings and uses of each words. And then we headed on our Flash Card reading session. Yup! Made my own flash cards for him. This will measure if he really knows the word.
Shuffle the flash cards and let him read the word repeatedly. Tell him to familiarized the spelling too.
Now let's check Milzon's Reading skill on our first Dolch Word tutorial

Cool! Now let's check if he can spell those words correctly. Let your kids spell the words in random order.
As you can see, Milzon got 2 mistakes. He misspelled "down" to "donw" and "Little" to "Lette". Anyway, i think he did great! Now for the 2 mistakes, here's the technique, simply include the two misspelled words on your next spelling quiz. Also, always make some recaps before you start with another set of words.

My First Tutorial Session with Jessica and Jennifer

As a part of the new Our Little Corners, I told you in one of my previous entry that we will be introducing new friends here. They will join us in our tutorial and art making projects. I am currently tutoring kids so i grabbed that opportunity to invite them here in our blog as well. So sooner or later, these new kids will also share their own crafts with us. Exciting right?
Actually, i was thinking of building my own tutorial mini-school, encouraging other kids to join us. I wish i can make that dream possible someday. Well, right now, let me focus first on my tutorial job.
I will introduce 2 kids today! They are my niece., Jennifer and Jessica. They are siblings and the lovely daughters of my cousin. We just started our tutorial session yesterday. I just can't teach them at the same time since they are both in different Grades. Jennifer will turn Grade 5 this coming school year while Jessica will be in Kindergarten.

Jessica went first. Since this is our first day, there is nothing much to discuss with. We just made some recaps. I tested her if she can recite the alphabet smoothly and yes she did! However, it seems that she was able to recite the alphabet smoothly because she memorized it from the song because after showing her the Alphabet flash Cards in random order, she can hardly define a letter. The only letters she can recognized prior to our lesson are the first five letters of the Alphabet which is the A, B, C, D. and E. Well, that means we have to start again from scratch.
She don't know how to write those letters too so that makes it even more challenging. Well, i taught her first on how to write each letters in Lower and Uppercase, one by one.
So I simply wrote the correct way of writing Letter "A" and "a" on the first row of her paper. And then I let her follow the pattern until the very last row of her notebook. Writing the letters repeatedly will make it easier for her to be familiarized with the Alphabet. We did the same process to letters "B" to "K". I decided not to teach her the entire alphabet that day to avoid any confusion. I let her be familiarized with the first 11 letters first and then we will just add 3 to 4 more letters each day until we reach the letter "Z". So far, everything turned well between me and Jessica yesterday. It's quite hard but then , she managed to memorized the letters A-K before we ended up our session. Not bad at all. Let see how much Jessica will improve on the next few days of our tutorial. Wish me luck!

After Jessica, is her sister's turn! I have nothing much to say to Jennifer. She did well on her lessons and there's nothing more to complain.

Jennifer is now in Grade 5 so I already expected it this way. Oh did you know that i served as his Tutor when she was just in preschool! And guess what, she is now an honor student, earning high grades on each subject consistently. God! I am so proud! Keep it up Jeng-Jeng (her nickname).
Well, we just did some recaps. We focused more on Mathematics. We discussed everything about writing numbers in their standard, expanded and exponential form. We also took a short time discussing the Roman Numerals.

See more of Jennifer and Jessica Soon!