Reading

Alexis: We are currently reading Charllote's Web to her. She got REALLY into a Frog and Toad book that we got at the library the other week, so I actually found the collection at the used bookstore. She has gotten really excited about chapter books, so I want to foster that in her. However, our next library choice was a BAD one. I got the first two Junie B. Jones books, and this girl is one massive brat without any redeeming qualities. I read the first one to her on Sunday afternoon and was having some issues with it, and Jason started reading the next one to her, and we both decided that there would be no more Junie B. Jones in our home. Long live Ramona, if I could not just find all of my old copies... I checked the first two out at the library, though, for when we finish wastching Charlotte's Web. I'm hoping this really starts to kick a desire to read in gear. She's been doing a great job with some workbooks about figuring out which letter begins which word, and she's starting to write some words, and I want to teach her some sight words. We'll see how it goes! (I tried the sight words a month or two ago and they didn't take, so I'll wait a little longer and see. No pressure or anything.)

Micah: His current bedtime favs are Goodnight Moon, Oh My Oh My Oh Dinosaur, and Inch by Inch. We started reading Inch by Inch about a week ago, and for some reason he thought it was really, really funny. Maybe because I pretended to try to gobble him up like the bird threatens to thr inchworm in the book. Regardless, he was laughing really hard at each page. Until last night, when for some reason when Jason was reading to him he decided that the ultimate reading experience for him would be to pretend to grab the inchworm on each page and eat him up! Then Jason would tell him that he needed to spit it out, so Micah would pretend to spit the worm out so that he could grab and swallow again. Jason told me about it this morning. So cute!