We had another great day today. So far, I've discovered that she abhors worksheets (good), having anyone tell her what to do (bad) and the phonics book that I painstakingly selected (very bad). No matter. I will still use the book; I'll just hide the book from her for the time being. Very sneaky peeky, a la Junie B Jones.
This new structure I've instigated seem to be working pretty well. We do our reading and narration in the morning, then we read books and play games or run errands until lunch. After lunch is quiet time for me, which is sacrosanct.
After this morning's attempted lesson, she traced some of her magnetic letters onto a blank sheet of paper, all the while "spelling" and sounding out the letters (mostly correctly). I was told to hold the letters still and "not mess them up." I did what I was told (mostly correctly).
Then we hit the library to exchange our books. We hadn't been since last week, so I was in desperate need of new reading material. Right now I'm looking at What Your Preschooler Needs to Know (this pick is mainly to congratulate myself on what (I hope) she already knows), Play to Learn and 1001 Rhymes and Fingerplays. The latter I got to assuage my massive guilt pangs because she didn't know the words to BINGO in storytime. I don't know if BINGO is in there, but we are going to learn some fingerplays, by gosh.
She selected tons of books, one of which I was looking forward to reading until I saw how many words were on each page. Oh my lord. Some chapter books I can handle, but the long picture books sometimes take 2-3 nighttimes to get through. Tonight we read some stories out of a collection of Animal Tales that she picked out. I'm working on keeping a list of books that we read. I know you're on the edge of your seat.
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