This past week we have seen Lily increasingly working out how to write/spell/create words. She’s choosing to read when she wants to know what something says, she’s using phonics (sounding what she can) and asking for help with digraphs. One of my favorite parts of watching this development, knowing how little guidance or instruction is […]
Creating Her Name
This morning Lily was playing with the letters on the fridge and decided to build her name. Her full name. Until today, I was unaware she knew how to spell Cecily. She’s been able to spell, read, and write Lily for the better part of a year now, but this is the first we’ve seen […]
Reading "Books"!!
She has for months been in the mindset that she can “only” read words, not “books”. Well, today changed everything!! She read the following “books” independently, and enjoyed the animation, as well as the ability to control the story’s direction, in some cases. This is an awesome site for her at this moment of development, […]
Early Mathematics, Surprised Me
Today, Lily and I spent the day in Chama, NM. Russ was working on a new site build, so she and I went exploring. We walked a couple miles into town, found basically um, nothing, except a place to have lunch. While at lunch, she and I colored a couple pages full of fairies and […]