I was bad about sight word practice, we went through them about 3 times a week, well on a good week. Thankfully, Anthony picked it up fast, and his reading has flourished. The math flash cards, yeah... I am SO MUCH worse...
He comes home from school and just wants to play, which I so get and he so needs to be unstructured and just play... I usually try to get homework done while I'm cooking dinner because once dinner is done he is so wired and checked out it's next to IMPOSSIBLE to get Anthony to focus on putting his pajamas on much less do school work.
Well the guilt has been mounting and I forced myself to whip out those handy dandy flash cards after showers... This is how it goes:
Me: holding up 8+8
Ant: did you know that 88 is Dale Jr.'s car. I know 82+6 equals 88 did you know that? Hey mom...
Me: yes, but what is this answer?
Ant: did you know mom that Neptune is the 8th planet from the sun? Or did you know daddy and me really like space? Member when we used to practice all the planets when I was three? Is three a baby?
Me: ok, that's good, but focus please. What's 8+8?
Ant: what was that? Did you hear it? That was thunder. Did you know mom that if you count to five after the light flashes and then it makes thunder that means the thunder is FIVE miles away. Five miles away is still not safe. You have to go INSIDE at five miles, maybe at 100 miles you could be outside, but maybe then I couldn't even hear the thunder. Maybe...
Me: ANTHONY! FOCUS!! WHAT IS 8 PLUS 8? I added a snap for good measure...
Ant: oh mommy, that's easy... 16 duh and then he flashes that uber cute smile that melts my heart every single time....
Thunder, nope that was me banging my head against the nearest wall... This kid just may do me in... He is lucky I love him to the moon and back 100 times over....
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