Reading

Emily is starting to read! Her cousin Lucas came to town over Christmas and she couldn't believe he was already reading a lot of words. I honestly hadn't even thought about working with her on it at all. She decided that she thought that was cool. So ever since Christmas we have been sounding things out and she is getting really good at it. She also always wants to write words. In the past she has written a whole bunch of random letters and then asks me what she spelled. I always tell her it doesn't say anything, and today she was getting really frustrated with that. I finally told her to think of a word and then try to spell it. So she was having me tell her words, and she actually was able to sound them out and spell some. She did about 15 words total. She was so proud of herself. :)