She's reading! Well, sort of.
We've been working with three letter words, mostly in the bathtub with her foam letters. I haven't pushed it at all. She's just interested a lot, so we have a little lesson when she's into it, and back off when she's not into it, which happens plenty, too. She likes to spell the word CAT. Tonight she spelled it and we sounded it out together. Then I switched the C and put an H there instead. She sounded it out....H....A....T.....HAT! She did it all by herself!
Then I switched the H and put a B in its place. She became distracted and needed some help sounding that one out. But we did and she said, "Bat....oh no! A bat! Scary bat!" I said, "No, it's like a baseball bat!" Immediately her pretend fear changed to a smile and she said, "Ohhhh.....that's not scary!" It was so funny, that just the context of the word made such a huge difference in her reaction. Bats (of the baseball variety) are okay....but bats (of the animal variety) aren't, apparently!
Anyway, we have a little emerging reader on our hands. How exciting! She still has a long way to go, but the wheels are turning and it'll click sometime soon. What a thrill to get to be her teacher.
AMAZING! She is her mother's daughter! Again, we have TOTALLY differnt children...we're still working on colors, and we'd be lucky if Kaden knows 5 letters. Perhaps I'll write a similar post when he's 6 years old. Oh well, he can dribble a basketball and ride a bike...such a boy!
ReplyDeleteWow - that's impressive! I know you'll have a great time teaching her all the fun things you did with your students. I love doing math things with my kids - I'm probably the only parent who buys her children fraction blocks just for fun!
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