Friday, March 12, 2010

Hunter - The Reading Machine

Since this year has really been about trial and error, I didn't plan much beyond writing letters and numerals. Hunter took off faster than I imagined, and before Christmas, he finished everything I had planned for the year! So for now, while I pour over kindergarten/first grade curriculum for the fall, we are really putting most of our time into hanging out and reading together, in addition to working on traditional kindergarten skills (cutting, gluing, organizing big bigger biggest, and first, second third, etc.) Hunter's reading skills have really exploded in these last few months, and he is reading everything in sight (this makes trips in the car very fun. Here is a video of Hunter reading one of his Now I'm Reading beginning readers this morning - when I took this video, it was the very first time Hunter had attempted this book.