My amazing 5-year old
I’m not bragging….I am just truly amazed at my 5-year old little girl…and I’m sure most 5-year olds are showing the same ability. She is learning to read. 5 seems young, just because she still seems like a tiny person and I guess I can’t remember when I learned to read, but I always pictured this to be later in life.
My eldest daughter is in Senior Kindergarten (at an amazing little school in Toronto) and I am just truly amazed at the progress she has made from September to here. She is a late October baby so she is the youngest in her class (literally this year actually). Back in September, all she could recognize from the alphabet was pretty much the letter ‘K’ (the first letter in her name, Keira), M for mom, D for dad and S for Sara (her little sister). Only 4 months later, she is able to recognize pretty much every letter in the alphabet – she can read them and write them. And she can read basic children’s books – even though these only have one sentence per page and the words are pretty basic, they are books. But the best part I think is that she’s starting to recognize words on the street, on the newspaper and on food items that we have at home. She is amazed herself that she can do this I think and it’s changing her surroundings.
Learning to read – it seems like such a trivial thing as an adult, as we just take it for granted, but seeing the process in a child makes me realize how a truly amazing feat it is…but more importantly, how amazing and sponge-like little kids are.
Maria
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