Haylie can read!

As a kindergarten teacher I have seen lots of kids figure out how to put sounds together but it is pretty exciting when it is your own child who is doing it. She can only read CVC words (for those not in education--Consonant Vowel Consonant) but that is where it starts! She knew the letters and their sounds before she started preschool this year so I figured it wouldn't take too long before she would be able to read some words. The Letter Factory video by Leap Frog is awesome for helping learn letters and sounds! That is how Haylie learned them all. I came up with a game she likes to play that I call "read it to eat it." She loves saltine crackers with Easy Cheese on them and I have always written letters or numbers on the crackers with the cheese when I gave them to her but now I give her 3 crackers and make 3 letter word with them (cat, rug, dog, mat, bat, bus). Then I have her read me the word before she can eat it. The past couple of days she has gotten much better at it. Then tonight she was reading some of the words in my Bob books. I know this is probably way too much information and a boring post but it's the kind of stuff I love to talk about as a teacher, and I want to remember the idea for Zander in a couple of years. Haylie is growing up so fast!! She only has two more days of preschool this year. She will be going back again next year and then on to kindergarten!