The next week or so is full of really fun and exciting events so I knew that Madi wouldn't have time to do any studying other than on Monday next week. So I gave her the option of doing IXL problems such as Roman Numerals and some other items (12 sections total) or doing multiplication (zeros through twelve multiples). She chose multiplication. Which is awesome because she's doing sooo good at it! I figured it would probably take about an hour. So she went to work on it and finished the zeros through the nines in 45 minutes. Then she took a break.
She and Riley played. I reminded her to go finish. She said she didn't think it was fun. I told her that not everything in life will be fun, but that attitude and effort go a long way in making progress (feel so very old just writing this as I remember my parents telling me similar things... when did I get this old??!! hahaha). She tried the multiples of 12 and was having a hard time with them. On IXL, your goal is to get to 100 percent by answering the questions. If you get one wrong, you lose quite a bit of points and have to answer even more questions. It's excellent for working at skills you need help on and helps identify trouble spots as well as things you're doing amazing on. Madi had missed a question or two on the 12's and was getting frustrated. So she got very teary and came into Riley's room with us. I told her to take a minute and just relax. I asked her a few questions. And encouraged her that maybe now wasn't the right time to do it so I let her play with Riley for 30 minutes. Told her that she'd still need to finish them because perseverance in the midst of frustration is a good habit to form - as is knowing when to rest to try it again. She said she didn't want to do it and mentioned not having to do things this hard before. I told her that she can't give up because it is hard and that she had done harder examples with Jeremy and probably in the Philippines as well.
So she was given a 20 minute "warning" and a 10 minute "warning" (nice ones, not mean) just to help her know when it was coming. After 30 minutes, she came down and focused on it. Got it done in 30 minutes and did a great job. I gave her a hug and told her how proud I was that she worked through it. She said she didn't like it - to which I repeated the persevering stuff - and just told her that it's a good lesson to learn to not give up and to keep trying. She smiled and then went in to eat dinner. She really worked extremely hard on it today.
She has said that her friends have asked her why she has to do school work over the summer and I explained that it is because her summer is longer than theirs and we don't want her to lose what she has already learned. And added that it is because we care and that it's the same thing Riley and Julia will have to do as they get older. 30 minutes a day won't kill her. I told her it will make this year easier in math and that her hard work will definitely pay off. She's doing so great on her math - you'd be so proud!
In case you want to check on what Madi has done on IXL, here is the info:
www.ixl.com
Username: colladomadison
Password: grant60
She's been doing the third grade information to review and to check to see if there is anything that wasn't covered that we need to cover in the next few weeks. Riley is doing the pre-K and Kinder information. The chart I use in the "student overview" - make sure the grade is Grade 3 and her info should pull up. You can see the time she's worked on math, what she got wrong, what skills she has chosen to work on. Really awesome site. She'll be using it at school next year as well. Everything is online so you can see it anytime - even her grades (I'll get you the log-in once I have it).
Madi was able to talk with Poppi for a short time today right after finishing her IXL. We had tacos tonight and Madi was able to play some computer games. She had a really great day today!!
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