This equipping minds cognative brain program is intense. After two weeks I can already notice some improvement with Reuben. For one, he doesn't cry anymore at art time! He usually dislikes art. After the first week he's enjoying it! And drawing extra! It's been amazing to see even such a small change.
Another change is he has started reversing letters. This is his brain working. He never reversed letters regally before. I think it is part of the healing process as his brain grapples with understanding what he is doing. For a bit he started writing the number 4 for the letter F and then he erased that and wrote F backwards.
There are still 10 more weeks left, and the teacher hasn't even started the reading or writing portion of the program with him... I can't wait to see how he progresses as the program continues, and how many more positive changes I will see in him. Reuben is so brilliant and I am so thankful as we walk through this program together!
I still have not memorized the first steps on the tic-tac-toe game which Reuben committed to memory in two days... my challenges are different then his though and I think I will need to tell myself a story about the number-color-animal sequence in order to remember it correctly. But I can see it is helping me too. My brain is a little clearer and I am noticing more details with less effort.
I already know I will be including some of these games daily in our homeschool, even as Reuben graduates from the program. It is so fun and stimulating to the intelligence, and it is so good for my kids. I'm intrigued on the why, and also tired because I still have a chronic illness and 3 kids.
School resumed this week. I have not been able to get to math with Reuben so I am setting that aside (the teacher said it was okay to wait) so I can continue to work on the cognitive brain development with him...we will pick up Math again in April. We are doing all his scheduled readings and I will try to add in latin and grammar next week. I also quit doing written narrations with him as well as dictations, we will resume those after he is done with the program.
I am still doing math with Becky but not a lot, as she is doing the Barton Reading Program with Grandma Julie who is so thankfully taking that over for me because I cannot do one more thing. It is a blessing to have my mom retired!
My birthday is this weekend and Becky's 8th birthday is next weekend. It's hopefully going to be a magical two weeks if no one gets sick, and I can't wait to see my little girl blow out her candles for the 8th time. Okay, she didn't really do that at 1, but you get the idea.
The kids are hoping for more snow, I am hoping for more sleep, and we all tumble around in the middle. How are you guys?
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