eg8r
12-03-2009, 12:22 PM
This week has been very interesting. As some may know my children are going to a private school instead of a day care. Actually my daughter is now in Kindergarten. My son is in K3 and is doing great. Like most kids he can count to 20, knows his alphabet, but now he can tell you the sounds of the letters. He is also learning to write them. I think it is so cool to watch a 3 year old write letters. By the end of the school year he will be able to write the entire alphabet and his numbers. He is the youngest in his class but is having no problem keeping up with the "older 3 year olds". /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif It cracks me up to hear him singing the Transformers song.
My daughter is in Kindergarten now and starting this week she has begun learning to read. I am sure this is no big thing as a lot of kids learn to read at that age (I started at age 4) but it is quite exciting for me. She is catching on to it so quickly. What surprises me is how things I find to be so easy require a significant amount of concentration from her, but she is doing awesome. By the end of this school year she will be reading just fine, count (and recognize) the numbers to 100. She knows addition and subtraction now. She goes slower on numbers above 20 but still gets those right. What cracks me up the most is that while she was in K4 (last year) she learned how to write in cursive. I don't think I learned that till much later but she thinks I have messy hand-writing. I agree, but my job requires me to use a keyboard so I don't care. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
I don't see SONoma on here much but he recommended when my daughter was very young to always read to her and I want to thank him for that great advice. My daughter loves to be read to and now she is so excited to be able to start reading herself. It is very cool being a parent.
eg8r
My daughter is in Kindergarten now and starting this week she has begun learning to read. I am sure this is no big thing as a lot of kids learn to read at that age (I started at age 4) but it is quite exciting for me. She is catching on to it so quickly. What surprises me is how things I find to be so easy require a significant amount of concentration from her, but she is doing awesome. By the end of this school year she will be reading just fine, count (and recognize) the numbers to 100. She knows addition and subtraction now. She goes slower on numbers above 20 but still gets those right. What cracks me up the most is that while she was in K4 (last year) she learned how to write in cursive. I don't think I learned that till much later but she thinks I have messy hand-writing. I agree, but my job requires me to use a keyboard so I don't care. /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
I don't see SONoma on here much but he recommended when my daughter was very young to always read to her and I want to thank him for that great advice. My daughter loves to be read to and now she is so excited to be able to start reading herself. It is very cool being a parent.
eg8r