I blame Word World

Word World is probably one of Tyson and Kaiya's favorite TV shows. They watch it together and dance, shriek and laugh. Tyson likes the catchy little songs about letter sounds, and honestly, I like singing them to him. Both kids love to read, and we read a lot. I guess I don't know how much other families read, but, every time our kids bring us a book, we read it to them. The other night I read Tyson two books, which took about 20 min and in that time Kaiya brought Jason almost every book from her room to read, one by one, and he kept reading each one she brought out as long as Tyson and I were reading. It was pretty fun...did I mention we love to read? :O)

Tyson wants to learn how to read. He WANTS to learn how to read. I don't know how to teach him how to read. He's 3 years old. I don't need him to learn how to read. I like to read to him. But he wants to..so he's learning how to read.

It's probably because of Word World.

This afternoon I was, um, reading with Kaiya, and Tyson came in with a letter d and a letter b. (He has a magnetic set of letters and numbers they play with on the fridge). He wanted to clarify which one was which. So we sang the song from Word World, ' a line then circle is the letter b, a circle then line is the letter d'. He smiled and walked back into the kitchen. A few minutes later he called for me to come see what he did. I walked into the kitchen to look at the fridge.

"Look! Buh-ed. It says bed!"

"What?!?! What are you doing?! You spelled that? Are you trying to spell and learn how to read?!"

Which, being a defiant 3 year old, makes him want to spell all the more...

I'm so proud of him. :O)

Besides, I haven't even read the book yet about how to teach him how to read...