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I'm not sure how this happened, but we have started reading big books. Not big word or big picture books, long books. Mom's books from her childhood are still in pretty good shape and we've been reading at least two chapters a day. We successfully read through The Ordinary Princess and we only have one chapter left in Charlotte's Web. So far, Ainsley prefers The Ordinary Princess and has asked to read it again. Personally, my vote is for Stuart Little or The Trumpet of the Swan next. Don't get me wrong, we still read Curious George, Skippy Jon Jones, and other picture books but the imagination has been going crazy as we have read books with less pictures.
We also have been working diligently on writing her name, spelling words, and the sounds each letter makes in the alphabet. Some of our fun activities include finding all the letters in her name on signs while we are in the car, spelling every word we say (mom's getting better at making the sounds of the letters), and singing all the things we do.
Teaching Ainsley how to read is on our list of school items for the year. She is ready. So now, we just need to find some easy readers that she hasn't already memorized. Go Dog Go, A Fish Out of Water, Put Me in the Zoo, Hop On Pop, and other short Dr. Suess books have already been comittted to memory. I'll take suggestions if you have any.
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Such a fabulous way to start my day -- tons of Ainsley and Andrew updates! :-) And so glad that she enjoys the Ordinary Princess, one of my all-time favorites. Here are some of the books that John really liked to read to himself at first:
-- the Read Aloud Bible Stories series (Ella Lindvall)
-- Kitten's First Full Moon (Kevin Henkes)
-- Llama Llama Red Pajama (Anna Dewdney)
{the above two were probably memorized since we'd read them together from birth :-))
-- the Bearenstein Bears first readers series
-- Madeline
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