writing

[flea]

Casper remains not really yet a reader, at least as far as she is willing to demonstrate this skill at home. She brings home "homework" books to read (and we are bad and rarely read them, preferring to read big books out loud to her), and she generally has them memorized and is not looking at the words. If pressed by me, she will sound out words, but often has trouble putting the correctly sounded out phonemes together into an actual word. (Incidentally, while I could read before kindergarten, and I know many of my online friends were also early readers, some strikingly precocious, I am struck by how much kindergarten today is basically teaching what I was taught in first grade. I went to an unusual, alternative kindergarten, but my impression as a rule was that kindergarten was for play, and usually half-day at that.Now it is full-day in all the public schools I know about, and is for learning to read.)

And yet, she is learning. This Friday she brought a book she'd written home:



Click through to find out where she likes to go! Hint: ice cream is involved. But not donuts; that would be Dillo's book, if he could write yet.

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[burrell.livejournal.com]

That's fabulous, flea. Plus interactive--I just showed it to my kids!