There are 2 strengths in this series.
- simple to understand stories that have nice Jewish themes
- intuitive exercises that increase grammar understanding
Suddenly, though, I'm finding these stories have whole swathes of vocabulary that Chana doesn't understand.
I think I may have mentioned this already.
I was planning to head over to עברית שיטתית after this. I have one from my sister, though I remember there being a blue, red, and purple one and think the blue one is the most basic and I'm not sure if that's the one I have or not. I'll have to dig around and see what I can find. We have another month of this anyway. Assuming we remember to keep doing it. I forgot that we were working on her writing longer stories. There are so many skills I want to work on with her!
- reading comprehension
- writing stories or essays
- basic grammar like masculine/feminine, singular/plural
- spelling...
My main focus is really reading comp and writing. I'd love speaking, too. But I'm not so worried about that, since when we were in Israel, at the end of 2 weeks, she was beginning to want to speak. If she were ever to spend any length of time there, I think it would come easily enough.
I used to worry a lot about when I would see children my kids' age who were reading and writing and doing all sorts of things that my kids couldn't or didn't do at that age. Now that Elazar is in first grade, I'm beginning to see it again. The children who write such beautiful lower case letters (I mostly see that in little girls). The children who can read. The children who know so much davening. I am mostly beyond that nervousness and insecurity, though I do get a little jolt of "kids that age can do that?!" kind of the way I used to feel when I saw 2 and 3 year-olds identifying letters.
But I just remind myself that in 7th grade, with some focus, they can easily learn the skills they need to know.
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