http://www.naturalattachment.com/wordpress/2008/01/31/another-year-has-come-and-gone/ “Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.” -- Mark Twain Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:59:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.naturalattachment.com/wordpress/2008/01/31/another-year-has-come-and-gone/#comment-4 admin Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:49:55 +0000 http://www.naturalattachment.com/wordpress/2008/01/31/another-year-has-come-and-gone/#comment-4 yeah...we have at least 300 kids books and read him just about everything! He's big on making letters out of whatever is around and then combining them and seeing us in pain while we try to pronounce his creations! It dawned on me the other day while we were reading one of his books, he knows a ton of words from memory/sight. I had no idea just how many he knows and I've never had him remember them...in fact he can spell at least two dozen words from memory. It amazes me. I think if we had magnetic letters on the fridge, we would never do ANYTHING else but pronounce fantastic letter combos! I do have to get into the fridge to feed us, you know! yeah…we have at least 300 kids books and read him just about everything! He’s big on making letters out of whatever is around and then combining them and seeing us in pain while we try to pronounce his creations! It dawned on me the other day while we were reading one of his books, he knows a ton of words from memory/sight. I had no idea just how many he knows and I’ve never had him remember them…in fact he can spell at least two dozen words from memory. It amazes me. I think if we had magnetic letters on the fridge, we would never do ANYTHING else but pronounce fantastic letter combos! I do have to get into the fridge to feed us, you know!

]]> http://www.naturalattachment.com/wordpress/2008/01/31/another-year-has-come-and-gone/#comment-2 Stu Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:10:55 +0000 http://www.naturalattachment.com/wordpress/2008/01/31/another-year-has-come-and-gone/#comment-2 Cool stuff. I may get around to blogging about this sometime, but your little one is right at the age where reading mattered to my two, who are now 14 and 18. Our big learn-how-to-read expense was a $1.39 bag of magnetic letters. Every day, whenever especially my son walked by the fridge, he moved a couple of letters around and asked "what's this say?". "Why, that says ZMU!" Scramble scramble. "OK, what's this say?" "RIZ" "OK, what's this say?" "FZUB" And so forth. Forty times in a row. Day in, day out. My daughter took a more systematic approach, two at a time and then every other letter in turn to make a third. Day in, day out. All at their pace, at whatever time mattered to them, and screw doing the dishes or whatever we were into at that moment. Just sat on the floor and moved letters around on the fridge. And when they ran away to get into something else, fine. But they were both fully literate before starting school. Mightahad something to do with the 300 kids' books sitting in bins on the floor all over the house, too, and lotsandlotsandlots of trips to the library. HTH, Stu Cool stuff. I may get around to blogging about this sometime, but your little one is right at the age where reading mattered to my two, who are now 14 and 18. Our big learn-how-to-read expense was a $1.39 bag of magnetic letters. Every day, whenever especially my son walked by the fridge, he moved a couple of letters around and asked “what’s this say?”. “Why, that says ZMU!” Scramble scramble. “OK, what’s this say?” “RIZ” “OK, what’s this say?” “FZUB” And so forth. Forty times in a row. Day in, day out. My daughter took a more systematic approach, two at a time and then every other letter in turn to make a third. Day in, day out. All at their pace, at whatever time mattered to them, and screw doing the dishes or whatever we were into at that moment. Just sat on the floor and moved letters around on the fridge. And when they ran away to get into something else, fine. But they were both fully literate before starting school. Mightahad something to do with the 300 kids’ books sitting in bins on the floor all over the house, too, and lotsandlotsandlots of trips to the library.
HTH,
Stu

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