As many of you know, Hailey is such a happy and bright little girl, but she has struggled a little with her speech. One of the things she seemed to struggle the most with was "naming" people, including herself. She recently started calling herself "sissy" which is a good start, but we continue to practice "Hailey." We have gotten her to repeat her own name when we say it to her probably 3-5 times now, but today she said her own name, completely unprompted, for the first time. We spent last night at Paul and Marie's house because we were going to celebrate Rob's grandma's (and his grandma's twin sister's) 96th birthday with an open house at the Mansion House in town. The party was a major success and we stuck around for dinner and to play a few games before heading back home tonight. We had finished packing everything up and Hailey and I were standing in the back bedroom. I said "okay pumpkin, time to go!" and Hailey said "I no pu-kin! I Hay-ee!"
Way to go sweetie!!!
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Hailey's Coloring
Hailey has always really loved to color and her coloring is just getting better and better. I am impressed with how well she is staying in the lines now (or really that she even tries to stay in the lines at all at her age).
What a good job! :)
Thursday, January 19, 2012
A New Semester
Hannah has now completed her first semester of kindergarten. Didn't she just get on the bus for the first time? Time sure is flying by!
She got another report card, and again she did well. She got all 3s and 4s (basically equivalent to A/Bs and A+s) except there was some issue with not knowing the title page of a book, so she got a 2 (B/C) for that one. Either way, she has made fantastic progress, bumping up many of her 3s from last quarter to 4s and bumping her 1 and 2 from last quarter to 4s as well. We are so proud of her for always trying her best and working to complete new challenges!
Speaking of new challenges, Hannah's reading is really coming along now. She went from sounding out a few words in August to actually being able to read me entire books without much problem. She even walked in and read me a note from her teacher last week with a fluency that I didn't know she had. I would have assumed that her teacher had just read the note to her first and that was why she was able to easily read words I didn't even know she really knew how to read, but it was actually a thank you card for the Christmas gift we gave her teacher and it was sealed. Amazing does not even begin to describe how I feel about this progress. According to her teacher, she is reading at a 1st grade level.
A great deal of her reading success comes from memorizing sight words now, since she had phonics pretty much down when entering school. As of middle of December, Hannah had memorized the entire kindergarten sight word list (66 words). Her teacher was swamped with testing so finally just got around giving her the first set of 1st grade words this week. When I showed the 12 new words to Hannah this morning, she ran down the entire list on the first try, only struggling a tiny bit on 2 of the words. I forsee bigger books in our future!
We are so proud of our smart, sweet girl!
She got another report card, and again she did well. She got all 3s and 4s (basically equivalent to A/Bs and A+s) except there was some issue with not knowing the title page of a book, so she got a 2 (B/C) for that one. Either way, she has made fantastic progress, bumping up many of her 3s from last quarter to 4s and bumping her 1 and 2 from last quarter to 4s as well. We are so proud of her for always trying her best and working to complete new challenges!
Speaking of new challenges, Hannah's reading is really coming along now. She went from sounding out a few words in August to actually being able to read me entire books without much problem. She even walked in and read me a note from her teacher last week with a fluency that I didn't know she had. I would have assumed that her teacher had just read the note to her first and that was why she was able to easily read words I didn't even know she really knew how to read, but it was actually a thank you card for the Christmas gift we gave her teacher and it was sealed. Amazing does not even begin to describe how I feel about this progress. According to her teacher, she is reading at a 1st grade level.
A great deal of her reading success comes from memorizing sight words now, since she had phonics pretty much down when entering school. As of middle of December, Hannah had memorized the entire kindergarten sight word list (66 words). Her teacher was swamped with testing so finally just got around giving her the first set of 1st grade words this week. When I showed the 12 new words to Hannah this morning, she ran down the entire list on the first try, only struggling a tiny bit on 2 of the words. I forsee bigger books in our future!
We are so proud of our smart, sweet girl!
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