Ellie: Morning Hero of the House

Stopping at the library each month for new books for my girls feels like being a parent at Christmastime. I find topical books (this month, pigs, since Ellie seems to have interest), as well as learning books (numbers for Ellie, colors for Isabelle)... and then bring them home as a surprise to my cute girls and we read them all month long.

This morning I worked with Isabelle on her lessons. She started learning to read words a few weeks ago. She doesn't grasp patterns as quickly as Ellie, but she's getting there. So she is learning the phonetic alphabet, but she's also learning to apply those letters to the idea of words.

She's having trouble transferring the sounds to the entire word, but I think she'll get there.

ANYWAY, since she's learning small words, I figured it was time to introduce her to the concept of books. Here's Isabelle learning to touch the page. :)

Ellie was the hero of the house, however. After teaching Isabelle, I brought Ellie over to work on book-reading. It was clear she didn't really want to read - she kept scurrying off and on her learning basket. I figured she wanted to go outside, but wasn't going to let her off so easily. I brought her little whiteboard over so she'd have to read it and pick "outside".

Instead, she darted to Eggs and Juice and bobbed between those two like a deranged mouse. So... eggs and juice it was! LOL! And everyone loves eggs and juice, so all of the birds were excited to have breakfast together!