Sometimes, I think that I have obviously missed something. My silliest child, my oldest child, my blue-eyed baby boy -- has surpassed me at some point in the middle of the night. Connor Garrick is READING?!!
Connor and I sat down today for the very first time to work on some reading. He knows the whole alphabet. He can write the whole alphabet. He can write his name, mommy, daddy, Marleigh, love, and a few other words -- so I figured that it was about time that he could actually read on his own.
20 minutes later, the boy read the entire book to me, start to finish. "Head to Toe" by Eric Carle. I could not be prouder. Frankly, I'm amazed... blown away. He doesn't start kindergarten for an entire YEAR. Not Sept. '08 but, Sept. '09 because he's a December baby, and the cut off is 5 by September. He's gonna be ahead of the game, I think.
As soon as he finishes his lunch we are gonna sit down with a new book, and see how much of that he can read, since I'm sure that a great part of the first book was repetition and memorization, this time around we'll have to work on some phonics. I know, I know -- they don't teach reading in school with phonetics anymore... but, that's how I learned. And, that's how I know to teach. Not to mention - he's picking up on all of the sounds, and already sounding things out on his own.
*sigh* I can't believe my baby boy, isn't a baby anymore.
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