i have started to work with little man on an amazing book! teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons by siegfried engelmann.
i first heard about this book from multiple friends, including my sister, who either homeschool or are preparing their kids for school, and i was honestly quite impressed with their success stories from using this book.
little man is progressing right along..i believe to date, we are on lesson 14. we have been working on two or three lessons a day, depending on how interested he is. some days we do only one, which is just fine.
i saw a drastic change in his reading skills even after lesson two or three. amazing!! he was quite shocked, himself. ;-) i could see shock on his face.
it uses phonics to help the reader-in-training to understand and recognize the letters as sounds, instead of simply letters. phonics is the way to go! highly effective!
so far so good...will let you know more about how little man is progressing in reading as we move through the book.
oh yes..i promised you some randomness in the form of pictures,right?
so..what compliments learning how to read better than skateboarding? yep, these kids lead very well balanced lives, that is for sure. ;-)
more pics to come soon from our trip to the cousin's house this past weekend...stay tuned. more skateboarding pics to come as well..
have a lovely day!
blessings,
kelly
p.s. i normally do a fairly good job with correct punctuation, spelling, and capitalization (way to pat myself on the back, huh?) but, beware that for this blog...i have thrown capitalizing words to the wind to sway among the wildflowers...;-) maybe it is me trying to be less picky or call it laziness or maybe it's because i do not have a great deal of time to be picky...maybe it's a combination, either way...it works.
