Our precocious five year old is really enjoying Kindergarten. She’s a lot like her dad in that she has to be the first at everything. Mom just doesn’t understand why being at the end of line isn’t good enough, but I do. When I was that age I loved that my name was Adam because I usually got to go to the front of the line. I always wanted to be the smartest or best speller or fastest and Megan is exactly the same.
Megan is learning to read using phonics, so right now everything can be spelled in our house. We’re having fun with it by turning it into a game. When we read books, she picks out all the words she knows. And when we want to motivate her to do something we get her to try to spell what she wants.
So this morning Megan wanted up to get up. But since our bed was cozy and we
wanted to delay, we made her learn to spell "up." In the process she spelled "hot" too. It’s weird when you look at your five year old and can’t help but think of her as an infant. Infants don’t spell! Only 3 weeks ago we took Megan to get dedicated by Pastor Ray, and here she is manipulating mom and dad out of bed by spelling words.
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