OK, so maybe having the kids get older could turn out to be a good thing. Maybe.

The other day Mike realized that he could read. He’s not sitting down devouring books just yet, but soon enough.

He’s known for a long time that letters make sounds, you put letters together to make words, and so on. In fact, his favorite DVDs are The Electric Company and all those Leap Frog shows.

But last week he kind of “got it” more than he had before. He was copying some words like Cat, Dog, Ant and so on, and then he suddenly said, “Hey, I have a book with these words in it!” and ran off.

He came back with Cat Traps and started reading it to Mr. Plain. It was really cool, and he is SO going to love Kindergarten!

As I type this, he and Robbie are spelling up a storm in the kitchen. They already had one of those Word Whammer toys, but a few weeks ago I was scouring the sale toys at Amazon (for my stash of birthday party gifts) and found a set of lowercase letters for it. The boys love them! And it is great timing too, because it is all of a sudden a rainy day today. Whose brilliant idea was that, by the way?

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March 20, 2007

From PlainJaneMom.com

Erika Jurney

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electric-company, kindergarten, leap-frog, reading, word-whammer

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5 responses to “OK, so maybe having the kids get older could turn out to be a good thing. Maybe.”

Melanie

March 20, 2007

Oh, wow. I remember how THRILLED I was when Really Rosie had the “I can read” epiphany. I am a big reader myself, so it was kind of like a bonus – kid I love, kid I love that loves to read just like me – YES!

I think having kids that love to read is so cool.

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SuburbanOblivion

March 20, 2007

Oh wow thats neat! I don’t really remember my oldest having the “lightbulb moment”, it was ust a sudden realization right after she started kindy that she was reading me short books. I need to pay more attention the next time around with the middle one.

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Ivy

March 20, 2007

Oh, awesome! My daughter did that too, just realized one day she can read. It was the same with me. Funny how that works.

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Soccer Dad

March 20, 2007

Those Leap magnetic letter toys are great. The 2 year old plays with it constantly and the 4 yr old likes to join in from time to time and start playing with words. We have all sorts of ‘press the letter on the toy to make the sounds and hear what it is’ toys, but the Leap (we have the single letter one) gets used all the time. We have a bus with letters on the side that got used a lot too, but that was before the talking letters on the fridge. Too cool that they have lower case letter for it now. May have to grab some of those.

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Peg

March 20, 2007

Don’t you love those word-whammer things? We have the one you show above, along with the single letter Fridge Phonics set AND the lowercase letters.recentl

The kiddos love them! And my Girlie just y ‘clicked’ on the reading thing as well, and is discovering all the things in the world that have opened up to her now that she is reading. Signs on stores, the intros to her favorite TV shows…it’s a whole new world!! Kitty Litter has never been so exciting!

Three Cheers for Mike! (And a big cheers to Mom, too!!)

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