I have to post a great big sorry to my faithful readers for not posting for more than two full weeks. However, I was out west for most of that, and I did have a great trip. I hope to post all about the trip sometime this week. However, I have a TON of catching up to do on grading papers for my two online algebra classes, so please cut me some slack.
On our way home from our trip, we stopped at a mall food court to eat lunch. I think this one was maybe in Albuquerque, NM? (The question mark is not for how to spell Albuquerque, it's more a question of where the stops were. After 60+ hours in the car, stops all sort of run together.)
We were sitting in the food court eating lunch, and Jackie pointed to the store and said, "Hot dog! That store says hot dog!" We had ordered Jackie a lemonade from this store, but at the same time, I had not told her what the store was called. She is starting to understand the idea that letters stand for sounds and those sounds make up the words. She knows which sound each letter makes, but as a whole she does not 'sound out' words. In this case though, she had sounded out the words and had an epiphany. She is right on the verge of completely opening up and reading, and I'm very excited for her. Here is a picture of the store.
2 comments:
Here, I have slack to spare....:)
I figured it was just because you have three children under the age of 5, are contemplating a cross country move and are currently stuck in a freak late winter storm, but hey, your excuse is good, too. :)
Glad you had a nice trip. And I'm sorry about the reading though. Your days of getting anything past her are totally numbered. I always called it the "dual edged sword of literacy". Makes me understand why kings wanted to keep the peasants stupid. Much easier to control that way.
Melissa,
Who said we get anything past her anymore anyway? This is the same child who said throughout Marley and Me, "It's a good thing they're married."
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