We found a cool lap desk at DI last week. Jared decided to keep it in the car, and has stocked its side compartments with lots of books. It helped that we found a box of books we hadn't seen in a while.
On Saturday, he read 'Twas the Night before Christmas" while we were driving somewhere. It was perfect, because I know it pretty well by heart, so I could help him when he got stuck on words like "kerchief" and "lawn" and "arose." He really didn't get stuck on very many words. I may have listed all of them (he didn't get to the part about the dry leaves before a hurricane meeting with an obstacle mount to the sky---does anyone even know what tha
t part means?)
He said his favorite part was, "Away to the window I flew like a flash, tore open the shutter and threw up the sash" because he could read all those words by himself. And let me tell you, he flew through them, reading like a pro.
That night, we read one of our favorite bedtime books, Five Monkeys Make a Birthday cake. I usually read it, but lately, Jared has been taking over. And Saturday night, it was sooo funny because he reads it so well that he has started doing the voices. I was shocked when he read, "One monkey whispered" and then dropped his voice to a whisper to continue, "Don't wake up Mama!" He also sniffed when he read, "One monkey sniffed, 'It's not a fire, we ruined Mama's birthday cake.'"
Ryan just got a long-awaited camcorder, so we'll have to catch him reading on video. It's so fun! I wonder how many kids in his kindergarten class will be reading when they start this Fall. I hope there are enough that he won't be bored while they learn letter sounds!
On Saturday, he read 'Twas the Night before Christmas" while we were driving somewhere. It was perfect, because I know it pretty well by heart, so I could help him when he got stuck on words like "kerchief" and "lawn" and "arose." He really didn't get stuck on very many words. I may have listed all of them (he didn't get to the part about the dry leaves before a hurricane meeting with an obstacle mount to the sky---does anyone even know what tha
t part means?)He said his favorite part was, "Away to the window I flew like a flash, tore open the shutter and threw up the sash" because he could read all those words by himself. And let me tell you, he flew through them, reading like a pro.
That night, we read one of our favorite bedtime books, Five Monkeys Make a Birthday cake. I usually read it, but lately, Jared has been taking over. And Saturday night, it was sooo funny because he reads it so well that he has started doing the voices. I was shocked when he read, "One monkey whispered" and then dropped his voice to a whisper to continue, "Don't wake up Mama!" He also sniffed when he read, "One monkey sniffed, 'It's not a fire, we ruined Mama's birthday cake.'"
Ryan just got a long-awaited camcorder, so we'll have to catch him reading on video. It's so fun! I wonder how many kids in his kindergarten class will be reading when they start this Fall. I hope there are enough that he won't be bored while they learn letter sounds!
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He is doing awesome! I know I was talking to some friends with kids in kindergarten. They really do not expect much. And they take a long time on each letter. Hopefully he will enjoy the social part of it enough to have fun and not get bored. He is a smarty pants! And a cute one at that.
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