Change of Plans

Well, I thought I had it all figured out and all the stuff ready to go for Half Preschool. My basic plan was that for the next six months I would work with Aidan on the letter sounds. She knows all the common letter sounds of the alphabet (C as in cat) but not the others (C as in cent) and I thought I would start teaching her the other sounds and some blended sounds (like sh) and that maybe by the time she starts Preschool at 3 she'll be ready to start blending the sounds into words. Weeeelll, I found the Leap Frog Talking Words Factory dvd at a yard sale for 50 c and after watching it for the third time she went over to her magnetic letters and started blending words. "Mommy," she called... "Help me... help me build words Mommy." I sat with her and in 15 minutes we went over "_at" words and "_it" words ... changing the first letter and she sounded them all out. Now she is sounding out the easy words in books (along with her large collection of sight words) Honestly, I'm at a loss with this child.. every time I think I'm pacing her... she goes faster.