Spelling Bee, Here She Comes!
pamelamyers | November 13, 2014
Ok, maybe not quite yet. But Sam is starting to learn to spell! I am so proud of her. Insanely proud! I love reading, and have a fairly extensive vocabulary, so it is a big deal for me for Sam to learn to read. We read so many books together, she has so many books, but it is the one thing I never have a problem with, buying or reading books. I still remember when I was a kid, like every kid, asking for a toy or something in every store. The one thing my mom would always let me have was a book. I think it’s not a bad rule.
Lately, when we read books or Sam just sees words, she will ask me, “Mommy, does this spell anything?” and she will read me the letters. She definitely has started to have an interest in what letters mean. We have been practicing letter sounds a lot, and I know they have been focusing on them in school, and I think it’s sinking in. She recently became enamored of the word “Stop” and now reads it out on every stop sign. She has written it out a few times and definitely knows how to write the word without seeing it in front of her. She also knows “Map” although I am not sure where that one came from. But most excitingly, she finally sounded out her first word, “Bed.” I have been trying so hard to get her to sound out a basic, three letter word and she hadn’t quite mastered how to blend the three, distinct sounds into one word that makes sense, until now. Bed! Yay!
I am so proud of her. She has a desire to read now, and nothing could make me happier, educationally, that is. She has certain books she knows by heart and “reads” them to me at night during our book time. It amazes me that she actually knows these books so well, almost word for word in many cases. I guess all that reading at night is paying off. I hope so. Books are magical to me, a true escape, and I don’t know where I’d be without a good book to lose myself into at times. I am so happy I can share that joy with my girl.