amelia is reading!

early this spring, jeff started working with amelia on the "sight words".... we had them written down on index cards from when chloe entered kindergarten... he had tried before but amelia wasn't really ready. but this time she really "got it"! i then pulled together all our early readers and after a week or two of practice, she was really reading!!! i recall specifically amelia reading a little bit on easter and aunt alison saying "boy is she going to be bored in kindergarten!". amelia turns 5 on 10/28 and misses the school cut-off by 4 weeks so she has one more year of pre-school to go before kindergarten. there are pros and cons to this but in our township, where the school has a very good reputation and therefore attracts many consciencious (sp?) parents and smart students, we feel it's very beneficial that amelia is one of the older kids in her class.

amelia now reads one "bob book" (a very elementary series with about 4 - 6 words per page and a total of 8 pages) each night before bedtime just like her big sister reads a book (or a chapter of a longer book). incidently, amelia's level now is where chloe was when she finished kindergarten (keeping in mind that chloe is a july baby and therefore one of the youngest in her grade).