It also marked the first time she read her entire bedtime story aloud. She picked one of the more challenging picture books from her little library, Eric Carle's A House For Hermit Crab. She did a lot of sounding out and asked for help with unfamiliar words like 'anemone' and 'lanternfish', but she stuck with it and at the end, asked if a hermit crab would get get along with the red-clawed crabs (Sesarma bidens) in our freshwater tank. I told her they wouldn't, since red-clawed crabs are aggressive. (If they had speech bubbles over their heads, they would say "Hey, wanna fight?" most of the time and "Dang, I'm hungry." the rest.)
This week I hope to look at acquiring a dresser so I can enjoy my third year with more than one drawer and a suitcase. Perhaps I will find my two missing socks in the process.
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Also, today is
- Current Mood:
thoughtful
- Current Music:Talisman - Wanting Memories
Comments
I'D have trouble with those words!
GOOD for her!
(How are things for you, too, schweetie? I didn't call because I wasn't sure if you were--er--ya know?)
Things are kind of 'eh' here -- I've got to tape my toe up because I stubbed it yesterday and it's all swollen and cranky today, I don't know what book fair shifts I'll be working yet and it's the last week before my den's graduation/Arrow of Light ceremony -- but it'll get better.
My phone's always on, so feel free to call anytime that works for you. I'll let you know if I can't take a call right then.
All year we've been working on how letters make sounds and words, her class word wall words (basic prepositions and pronouns, plus a few verbs) and writing simple sentences to describe pictures, so the sudden 'click' of her starting to read aloud and drawing a comic book is amazing to me.
Did you know there's a Sock Monkey children's book? I saw it at Tattered Cover and wondered what Tony Millionaire was doing in the children's section, but that was quickly overruled by Sock Monkey = awesome.
I initially misread "new age bracket" as using the descriptor "new age" and wondered if that meant you were going to listen to Enya a lot. Hee.
(And how Book-A-Minute summarizes it.)