Summer Goals 2018

SUMMER IS COMING! 🙂 ☀️ ☀️ ☀️

So many mixed feelings as we approach this summer. It’s the last one before my baby heads off to big kid school a.k.a. kindergarten. Because of his Fall birthday he’s actually attended three whole years of Montessori preschool and I know he’s ready for new adventures. Still I’m dreading him going to real school because it means more after-school commitments and less time to do our own thing.

In addition, since he will be attending Spanish immersion kindergarten and be in a Spanish environment for most of his day, I have to balance Chinese and English at home and make sure he is progressing in both.

Age: 5.5 years

Chinese

Present Levels:

• Knows about 800 characters
• Can read simple picture books without pinyin
• Can read 3000-word bridge books with pinyin when sufficiently motivated
• Produces correct tone about 70% of the time

Goals:

• Increase word recognition to 1000 characters
• Read 1500-word bridge books without pinyin
• Read more 3000-word bridge books with pinyin
• Produce correct tone 100% of the time
• Get more fluent with 37 zhuyin symbols and blending (Don’t really care about this as much, but it would be nice if I could check this off my list)

Curriculum:

• Odonata readers, 100-1200 characters

English

Present Levels:

• Reads books with lots of illustrations
• This week he read Fantastic Mr Fox and half of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but he didn’t seem to enjoy them. I feel like he may not comprehend lengthy text with limited pictures.
• Does not like non-fiction
• Lisp for /s/, /sh/, /ch/, /th/ is driving me crazy

Goals:

• Increase stamina for books with higher text-to-picture ratio
• Increase vocabulary and comprehension
• Read more non-fiction
• Fix his lisp

Curriculum:

• Vocabulary Workshop, Red
• Big Words for Little Kids: Step-by-Step Advanced Vocabulary Building

Math

Present Levels:

• Has general concepts of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division but has numerous gaps everywhere
• Finished Singapore Math 1A and in the middle of 1B

Goals:

• Convert his “Montessori math” (beads, snake games, etc.) concepts to more “traditional math”
• Increase speed and accuracy of mental math
• Memorize the whole multiplication table (has 4s, 6s, 7s and 8s left)

Curriculum:

• Singapore Math 1A and 1B, Challenging Word Problems 1
• The Verbal Math Lesson 1

As usual…

I have so many grand plans. As for whether they will come to fruition… It’ll be fun for me to look back at this in three months time LOLOLOL. 😝

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