My Baby Can Read

So Boogie started Pre K on last Friday the 27th of August and he is absolutely loving it! I was a little, take that back a lot of, nervous about him going because I wasn’t sure of how he would react. Psssh I don’t even know why I was because as soon as he got in there and saw those other kids he was good.  He wanted to go to school and did not look back. He finally gets a chance to be around other kids his age.

Apparently people don’t teach their kids at home or something because his teacher was amazed that he is already reading at age 4. I thought that was normal. I guess not. I guess some parents expect the teacher to teach their child everything. Not in this household.  while I will rely on his teachers to teach him some things, whatever it is that I can teach him I will.  Now on to his curriculum, since he’s ahead of the others at reading and pretty much everything else, then his teachers will focus on his math skills.  That was one area that I tried but couldn’t teach him. I have him counting and basic addition and subtraction so hopefully they will expand upon that.

According to some online tests he is supposedly reading at a 4th grade level. Yeah right! While I don’t doubt his ability to read and read well I highly doubt that it is at a 4th grade level. My mom is sending me a test that she used to use on her students when she taught elementary school so we’ll see what it really is.

I am so proud of him and how well he is doing in school thus far. I’m so glad that we started preparing him for school early and it is paying off already. I’m not trying to brag or anything I’m just a proud parent that is gushing on my child like a proud parent should.

Oh yeah, those Your Baby can read activities actually works! Of course, you need to actually read to them and put in some additional work but it is a great tool to assist you. We started him with it after we were already working with him and he could recognize letters and numbers. It helped him with sounding out words and forming sentences. I recommend it for anyone trying to teach their child or someone else’s child how to read.