Woo Hoo Damien!

I am so proud of Mr D.  He just wrote his name without any help and it was perfect!

I have to say.  I was beginning to think I was holding him back with the home schooling.  He just wasn't 'getting' things like I felt he should.  We had  a few weeks of him seeming to catch what reading was all about, and then, nothing.  He knows his letters and the sounds they each make, but putting them together to make actual words seemed almost foreign to him.

On the writing front, we have been working on his name both at home and at therapy for almost 3 years.  He actually caught on to how his name should look and wrote it without any coaching from me!

When we usually do his writing, we go over each letter and how it should look, how the spacing should look, and the punctuation, etc.  Every sentence he wrote would be filled with mis-formed letters, missing letters, and terrible spacing.

While his sentences are still in the infancy stage, his name now looks like a first grader would write it!  Now if we can just get his reading and math up to where it should be.....


Nini