Momma Homework

In the time it took me to make all of these waffles to freeze/fridge for Ana's breakfasts

yuuuuuum

I was finally! able to put together an official reading lesson plan for Z! This is mostly to have a quicker reference guide for myself - and to make sure Matt and I are on the same page since we both have little lessons with her. 

Z is -much- better at the idea of blending the sounds together to make words! She gets so excited when the sounds click in her head to make a word! Well, when she is in to it of course, it is still overall a slow process full of short 5-10 minute lessons, and a lot of it just repeating or solidifying what she already has learned.

But! Today she was able to read the first 3 pages of a *real* book! I checked out Hop on Pop from the library because I knew she could read those first words. Z was stoked to be able to have a book, open it and READ OUT OF IT! We usually just use the felt letters or I write things on a notepad for her to sound out - so a real book was a giant step up!

She didn't read the connector - she only reads capital letters for now, and she doesn't know the word "is" but by the end of the first "round" of lessons - she WILL be able to. Yay!

That pup is so cute! Dr. Seuss pictures are sort of hit and miss on the cute factor, but that pup gets cute points!

Here's to trying to stimulate my preschooler because neither one of us likes to just sit around and do the same old stuff all day long... especially when we don't have a yard yet!!!

Also, I would just like to add that in this endeavor I am having to teach -myself- phonics, because, given the opportunity to just randomly tell Z what sound a letter makes I would say half of the time I don't come up with the right one! What is -wrong- with me!? I also don't know roman numbers. There. I said it. My Blue Ribbon education as a child somehow didn't stick.