AND, We are STILL in LOVE!!
This year, we had the same teacher as Kindergarten, Miss Hunter. And that is because she is a Kindergarten/1st grade teacher. We were very excited about that. We love Miss Hunter. She is a great teacher. We also had some classmates that we were familiar with from Kindergarten in our 1st grade class.
This was much easier. We were familiar with the format. We had a groove of how we can succeed and it worked. It worked great that we got High Honors, AGAIN! Yep! Straight A's down the board.
I know what you're thinking. I made the A's right!? Of course NOT! First, I will not discredit my son's intelligence. He is VERY smart. He was one of the top in his class. And I would not be of help to his academic growth if I was to cheat him and his abilities. Plus, his teacher, who monitors his academics with assessments and a testing called DIBELS, she would have noticed if his level of success was not his own efforts.
The reason my son has been so successful in TECCA is of course his level of intelligence and ALSO, my way of instructing him to understand what is being taught. I have been told many, many, MANY times to become a teacher. They way I explain things and allow whom I am teaching to think it out for understanding, helps them to comprehend. I gained the experience of my teaching style by being involved young in a Early Childhood Development program in my private school at 14. I love children so much, I continued by working in the school's nursery, grew older and became a Sunday school teacher in my early 20s for 3-5 year old and slowly transitioned up to grade 6. I even created a Sunday school curriculum. I never published it though. And will eventually.
Being done with my credentials and back to our 1st grade experience at TECCA, my child had another successful year. Both semesters he was on High Honor Roll.
We had reading group and used a program called Raz-Kids. He had grown in his reading. He can be lazy about it at times or shall I say overly confident and make some mistakes. I had to humble him a few times to focus on what exactly he was reading.
Math was amazing. He aced that like a champ. Like his mother, it's our favorite. Geometry was our favorite. Yes. There are some strong lessons on Geometry in the curriculum.
Language Arts was pretty advance compared to what I noticed from kids his age in brick and mortar. Lots of writing of sentences and spelling of some large words. Lots of sound grouping recognition like /ght/ /ow/ /oa/ to name a few. Learning of different types of sentences like command, statement, or question. Plenty of practice with different types of adjectives, playing around with how to use me and I as well as how to use [s] in verbs. Language Arts was a major class this year.
Social Studies and Science was standard. Science had subjects like the Water Cycle, Weather and learning about different clouds and precipitation. Earth Science, Motion and much more. We enjoyed Science as well.
We had Art that continued with different forms of art and the elements. We did mosaic art, self portraits, sculptures, and clay art.
We have physical education as well. Any physical activity our child does is credit for the class. Bike riding, any after school sport, even Wii Fit exercises or Just Dance play. The school provides a yoga DVD if you need something for them to do to complete P.E.
The curriculum also has a class called Online Learning. This class can consist of many different types of subjects. This year this class contained Internet Safety, Intro to Sign Language, How to Use Microsoft programs like Word, PowerPoint and so forth. We also did some keyboarding.
We going for 2nd grade with TECCA this upcoming school year (2017-2018). We have a new teacher, Mrs. Buckley. I will post some more habits on the blog as we go!
Until then,
Kdot Out
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