vocab words from end of noach

i don't feel like reviewing them w/ chana today.

chana did all of sheni today. we did chazara and she remembered the words from rishon (mostly). there are a couple of words giving her a hard time, but i'm impressed with how much she remembers. the pesukim today were pretty easy. sometimes it was a bit hard for her to do the whole flow of the pesukim, but she just asked me to review it afterwards for her, which i did.

she wondered how pharoah found out that sarai was avram's wife, not his sister.

she was zipping along so nicely today it's tempting to just keep going without chazara. but overall i think chazara is useful because it gives her more vocabulary, which generally makes it easier for her to zip through things.

i haven't done a rashi in a while. haven't found one that jumps out at me. but we haven't been reviewing the old ones, either.

chazara went nicely today. she remembered a lot :-) :-) this is from lech lecha; we still have to review those 30 words from noach. maybe later.

the last 2 pesukim from yesterday, which were pretty complex, needed a lot of review and i did it for her and then asked her to repeat it. then we did 4 new pesukim, until sheni. even with breaks, towards the end, chana was getting quite cranky. having trouble with yitav (shoresh "tov") etc. but she remembered the story of avram telling sara to say she's his sister. she said, "but then sara will have 2 husbands!" i told her she wouldn't accept any offers, just say, "maybe... i have to ask my brother.."

good news and bad news

the good news is that chana happily acquiesced to running through those 30 vocab words from noach.

the bad news is that i still have to provide her with the mnemonics! how long will this take?? i have hope that if we keep doing it, eventually they'll stick...

we are swimming in vocabulary

it took us a while to sit down to do chumash today. well, it took me a while. chana rarely jumps up with glee to do chumash, and when she would say, "not now," and i would say, "ok," that's not a way to get it done. but we finally sat down after a brief tussle over who got the blanket (that's her and elazar, not me).

and we made it through 4 pesukim with a decent number of new words, plus a pretty thorough review of the words from yesterday. i don't feel like there is a full handle of some of the main words in noach (maybe i'll orally review them in a bit) and here we are, piling on new words. i'm going to count how many we have to review in 9 pesukim which is 2 days of work.

20 words from yesterday (many of which she is familiar with but needs review, like ishto, her old nemesis). and 8 from today, give or take. it's tough to go forward when i really want to get these down.

we haven't done rashi in a while.

the screaming was there, but not as bad as it's been, considering chana's dislike for not instantly remembering things. she still refuses to use the white board to identify shorashim. considering that bana in "vayiven" is missing the "hey" and nasa in "vayisa" is missing the "nun" and considering she yells about not knowing it, i feel like insisting but that is a whole 'nother battle. it disturbs her that the nekudos are not universal. i tried to explain to her that the nekudos are not essential; she just has to learn to identify which are the shoresh letters and that's the clue to the word. but that drives her nuts. interesting because i think sarah picked up that concept and its application pretty painlessly. every kid is different. sarah also never minded writing down the shoresh on the white board.

lech lecha

we started the new parsha with much fanfare. and by fanfare i mean the usual screaming. although she knows the shorashim, there are lots of prefixes and suffixes and the nekudos are confusing, which chana objects to. i had her reviewing some of the words a few times, and we know how she likes that (that's sarcasm, folks). we did 6 pesukim in 1hr 45 min w/ about half the time on breaks. i would have gone further but i think it's a lot to process.

chazak!

we finished chazara of parshas noach! chana was pretty upset that i made her do a couple of pesukim over. words that are still giving her trouble: eishes (wife of), bas (daughter), ben (son of and age), b'no (his son). sigh. one hopes that with the many times they repeat, she'll get them.

onward to lech lecha tomorrow!!!