It’s so Exciting
House on Red Corner · 2007-11-15
The past couple of days, maybe four or five if you want numbers, we have had a bit of a routine around here. While I spent my morning writing in my journal, reading and responding to email and shifting through my RSS news feeds, EJ has been learning to read. Yup,- she’s been pretty focused on using the tools available at a really great website called Starfall.com.They use a phonic approach which is really great and there are lots of little games and ongs and other stuff that energizes her. She actually worked on the site for two hours yesterday morning!! Then she worked on it in the afternoon as well!
In addition to using that website we have some software on the Mac that runnings Dr. Suess’s ABC’s through, and she likes playing with that as well. However, the downside for us it that we have the following exchange at least a thousand times a day.
“I click” she says.”Click” is the only response I am allowed to give without her repeating it again.
By the end of the day both of us are a little crazy with this repetition and it becomes a drawn out and silly phrase with way too much emphasis on the ‘i’ in Click. On the brightest side, she is learning how to read, and already is doing better at pronouncing some of the letters which she had been struggling with. So there you go.
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