I think i may have a touch of Nic’s recent problem…
the beans went tp Chris’s parents today, and seem to have had ajolly time – SB made some biscuits and watched cbeebies [all she can remember!] And BB was a bit grumbly – well, she should have had some sleep! SB did a nice hama car with the big beads.
When we all met upm SB confessed to doing no match and sort, so she did 4 pages explode the code 2, and 4 of singapore primary maths 1a. we are certainly not rampaging through the maths at the mo! However, there is no rush, and i think she is happier that the match and sort is a bit easy, and she gets tested with the sweetie games we play – and seed sowing multiplication! Anyway, she is mostly consolidating 10′s and units, so needs to play her jojo in numberland some more. We did various imagination games, musical statues – BB lost!
I ‘felt unwell’ so bailed out of high interactiveness, but Sb wanted me to read her some of her waiting usborne young readers – and being mean I refused. I reminded her that they are going to be our fun books together when she reads. So she read a red nose reader cover to cover. I offered to get her the yellow ones, but she said she will read all the red ones first. TBH, i am not sure at what point you announce they read, but she certainly does. just needs practice!
I really have 2 most gorgeous girls.
I’ve been wondering when I actually decide ‘she can read’ too. Seems to me like SB and T are both almost there! Isn’t it fun?!
I think i decided Fran was reading when she started to be able to work out words for herself that i hadn’t had to teach her, iyswim. Maddy is still “learning2 in that she only reads if i am with her and telling her the new words/cheerleading her on but Fran is independantly reading because she can make sense of a new book without me. But that is just my interpretation of it really! I don’t think there is an internationally decreed law!
I’ve wondered when you declare them to be reading too. I think it is probably when they “read independently” but then that seems to almost belittle the huge efforts at “reading with mummy holding my hand” that comes first. ACtually I suspect that for a lot of our girlies it’s more a case of when they realise they can read and stop asking for help that they probably havent needed for a while (but that’s probably wishful thinking/high hopes!)
Grins at Katy….. you more than have my sympathies!
Cool, by the official MuddlePuddle definition (grin) Ernest is reading
I’d agree though, decoding rather than remembering counts as reading in my book, however far it strecthes (or doesn’t).
btw Katy, there are *some* MP boys you know!
Tamsin can officially read, then! She’s definitely decoding, although has to ask for strange words like ‘naughty’, unsurprisingly!
R u all laughing at me!!!!
i think she does a mixture of decoding and remembering, but certainly reading. just not at all fluently!
I think the next step is independent reading – which will be a little while yet here!