Reading fun is afoot at my house. Tabby, who will enter Kindergarten next year is in the midst of learning a bunch of pre-primer sight words. Every night this week we’ve been drilling her on them (truly a record for us as far as consistency goes). It’s making a difference too as she seems to be learning one or two new ones every day.
Though I know she’s supposed to learn these words just by sight (some of them can’t, in fact, be sounded out), we have been trying to help her through some of the phonics as well, knowing it will come in handy later on and give her clues even now.
So apparently, all the phonics and learning to read stuff is working its way into my brain. This AM at the gym, while doing Turkish Getups, we were listening to Ke$ha’s “Tick Tock,” I made some comment about the song and called her “keeeeesha (long E).” My sister, all-knowing corrected me. “It’s keh-sha (short E).”
“Ahh,” I said, “well actually that makes more sense. I guess I thought the $ made the E long.” It was probably a mark of how early it was, as opposed to my wit, that we al laughed like mad.
That would have been a bitch of a phonics rule to teach to Tabby, alright!
LOL!!
Mini is only sort of learning site words right now, but it’s still so early. He’s definitely interested in reading, but I only push it when he asks, rather than quiz him. We tend to get far better results when it’s his idea rather than ours. We’ve always taken this approach with him, as he tends to have an insane photographic memory, we think, anyway. If I try to force him, forget it. Though, I read on the earlier side of 5, he’s learning so freaking much right now, that I don’t even want to touch reading. I feel like he’s already growing up too fast.