My 4 year old is reading Dr. Suess books on her own now. Apparently, we're not so bad at this whole homeschooling thing! Yes, yes...I AM homeschooling her. It's something that I never thought I'd do. But I'm truly excited about it...and know that it's what we're being called to as a family. At least for this season. But that's a topic for a whole other blog post.
Now this summer our little town is doing a Library Reading Program, which offers prizes as you read certain amounts of book.
5 Books...ice cream cone from McDonalds and a Free kids meal from Cracker Barrel
10 Books...Family DVD rental from a local video place
15 Books...1 Day Swim Pass at a local pool
20 Books...Pizza Hut pan pizza
Pretty sweet, eh? SOOOO when Charis heard this, she started jumping up and down, laughing, and yelling. She immediately ran to get a book that I had just checked out from the library. She had never read it before, but did a really good job of sounding it all out.
The following video isn't of the best quality; it's from our digital camera's 60 second video feed. But it at least gives you an idea (especially for g'ma and g'pa up north) of how she's doing. Though I have to say, it mainly shows you the little dance/cheer that she does as she reads. Obviously, she's not lacking in self confidence.
I'm so proud of her!!
Until I can figure out how to put the video directly on here, I'm just going to include the video link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si0wrN9P9ZQ
4 comments:
Smart little girl. Lovin the chair dance. :)
I don't know how to post from youtube but it's easy from video.google.com
:) Sylvia taught me that one
Go, Charis! That's great!!!
Hey, you get better prizes from your library than we do from ours...that's not fair! :)
I'm sure all of Charis's reading ability is due to her mother's superior intelligence and outstanding teaching ability!!!
yeah right. Just like the fact that YOUR 4 year old son can multiply is due to your being an amazing math teacher. I mean, I know we're good teachers and all. But let's face it. Our kids be intelijent. *wink*
Whew, and it's a good thing they are! I have a feeling in a few years, Josiah will be teaching ME how to do math! (And actually, he's 5 now...been 5 for 17 whole days.) :)
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