Reading

Last week Thursday Nick and I met with Micah's teacher for our first ever parent-teacher conference. The conference went well and during our discussion she informed us that they would start reading on the following Tuesday. :)

Tuesday afternoon Micah come home with two Ziploc baggies in his book bag. Each baggie had 3 cards in it, each with a word on it. (Apparently these were the words that they started to read at school that day.) These baggies were accompanied by a note saying that as parents we need to review these words with our child.

So.. the review didn't happen last night and since he has school tomorrow I thought that we should review the words tonight. He pulled them out and in no time had the words figured out. Two of the words were gas and big. He was trying to put the words into some kind of order to make a phrase. It went something like this.

"Big...... Gas....."

"Big... Gas...."

"Big. Gas." (I hope that you can see where this is going....)

"Big Gas"

"Biggas"

"Bigas"

He stopped at this point. Now we do not use this kind of language in our house and he had no idea what he was saying, but it was a little difficult to not scold him! (He didn't know! So how could I!) Nick and looked at each other and just chuckled to ourselves.

I am sure that there will be many other stories like this in the future as we head down the road of reading and phonics! :)