Home | Contact Us | Community | News | Resources | Entertainment | Shop | Parenting BlogsPlease visit our sponsors:
Parenting, Pregnancy & Baby Message Boards
Would you like to support Parenting Club? Click here for donation information  
Google
Share |

 
Reply to this topicStart new topicStart Poll

> First day of school, not off to a very good start!
~Roo'sMama~
Posted: Sep 7 2010, 06:37 AM
Quote Post


My two cuties :)
********

Group: Members
Posts: 7,394
Member No.: 788
Joined: 29-September 04



Andrew's starting Kindergarten this year, and we're homeschooling him. Today was the day I've been planning on starting, and he's been super excited for a couple weeks now. But a few days ago he shut his fingers on his right hand in the van door, and they're wrapped up in a big bandage so he can't hold a pencil. sad.gif I feel so bad that the day he's waited for so long is finally here, and because of his hand the whole thing kind of fell flat. We did a couple things, but he had to use his left hand and it was too discouraging for him. Not a very good start to the year! dry.gif Now I'm not sure if I should keep going, just doing what little we can every day until his hand is better, or hold off entirely until it heals enough for him to be able to use a pencil. unsure.gif I'm afraid if I wait too long he will lose interest all together, but I'm also afraid that if we keep going like this he'll get too discouraged and not want to do it at all. Plus he's not really learning how to write his letters and numbers when he has to do a shaky job with his left hand! I don't know what to do! wacko.gif


--------------------
Sara ~ Wife to Scott, Mommy to Andrew 6-12-05, Alison 2-20-07, and our angel in heaven 4-20-06

user posted imageLilypie Kids Birthday tickers Lilypie Kids Birthday tickers
PM
Top
Nina J
Posted: Sep 8 2010, 04:59 AM
Quote Post


Praying For Spencer
*******

Group: Members
Posts: 2,793
Member No.: 3,398
Joined: 8-March 06



What about doing activities that don't involve writing? Like letter recognition? You could make some flash cards of the alphabet and do letter reognition, or use them to spell words out - i.e. 'it', 'a', 'him', etc.

You could do flash cards with numbers too and work on some simple math things.

Good luck! Don't let this set back get in the way. I think if you remain enthusiastic, Andrew will too happy.gif


--------------------
Nina, Mama to Emily Kate, Odessa Jean & Aysun Aleisha.
PMEmail Poster
Top



0 User(s) are reading this topic (0 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)
0 Members:

Topic Options Reply to this topicStart new topicStart Poll

 





[ Script Execution time: 0.0114 ]   [ 12 queries used ]   [ GZIP Enabled ]