We are homeschoolers who lean towards unschooling. Our boys are avid gamers who enjoy getting out to enjoy life before they have to be burdened with the woes of adulthood.
Between holidays and the sickies, we’ve been a little less strict on implementing the Reading Reflex program. Week 5We used the Handwriting without Tears method to practice writing the sound pictures. As we wrote the letters, we said their sounds not their names. We also continued reading the BOB books although Drama King loves to […]
Last week Drama King had become overwhelmed so we took a break from the Reading Reflex. We had heard about BOB books and found the first set on eBay at a reasonable price so I pulled them for a no pressure week. I was completely surprised when Drama King picked up the first book and […]
Reading Reflex by Carmen and Geoffrey McGuinness has a seriously different approach to reading and while at first it seemed too strange, I am slowly falling in love with this method. It’s helping Little T with his spelling and Drama King read his first sentence with little help from me. I’ve been doing some research […]
Last week we introduced you to Reading Reflex by Carmen and Geoffrey McGuinness and shared our tough first week. Since we had so many things planned and the boys were having trouble sleeping, we kept this week pretty light. We played the blending game and sounds around us game randomly throughout each day. Week 2 […]
After Drama King’s dyslexia diagnosis, we researched methods and ultimately selected Reading Reflex by Carmen and Geoffrey McGuinness because the authors studied the various methods for teaching children to read and combined the best techniques to create their own method. The method adheres to teaching letter sounds over names. They claim to have 100% success […]
A few years ago as Tim and I strolled through an office store to use a $10 off $25 coupon, we thought about picking up a game for the boys. We perused through the overwhelming amount of kid games and selected a JumpStart game. Why did we choose the game? It was educational, fun, expandable, […]