We began the new year with a new goal - READING! Lena is showing many of the readiness skills (Link Here for readiness signs in younger children, ages 3-5) to begin reading. This is exciting stuff for her...she already loves books, knows all of her letters - uppercase and lowercase and most of the letter sounds. But, she is young and our school routine is not as consistent as I would like. With two active girls who have different educational needs, finding a good time to work on reading with Lena is tough, but we are trying it out and not pushing it. To jump start this new learning adventure, we are utilizing a sight words program, You Can Read from 1+1+1=1 that is geared toward young readers and I would like to incorporate phonics and the basics of blending sounds, but we have not begun any formal phonics blends yet.
Lucianna's attention span for school time is increasing but I recognize a need to utilize a more hands-on, exploratory approach with her - I just have to get myself organized in order to allow her to thrive in our school time routine!
I am giving my new Shutterfly Share space a try and will be linking up there for a slideshow of this month's school time pictures. I had a bit of trouble with my Picasa photos as you may see that some pictures are missing from older blog ...I'll be working on uploading those again (sigh!).
CLICK HERE - Jammin' January School
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