Tag Archives: literacy
Silas reading
I got Silas to read on camera!
It’s official!
Silas can *read*! Consonant-Vowel-Consonant words, anyway. We were reading his bedtime story the other night, and every time I got to a CVC word that was phonetically normal, I told […]
The Cult of the Big Yellow Bus
This started as a facebook post, but got too involved, so…blog it is. I want to know, from families that homeschool, how do you deal with the undeniable allure of […]
Another Writer in the Family
Silas decided to write his friends’ names (I spelled for him). He was quite pleased with himself. (I should note, he can’t read. He’s just interested in letters. I suppose […]
Some thoughts on home and school
I’ve been reading, with much interest, Jennifer’s series on home education–why she does it, what she gets out of it, how she responds to people who have concerns. People continually […]
Blocks
We have a set of wooden blocks that have been in our family for generations. Silas and Petra love to play with them. My brother and I did, too (which […]
Monkeys at Typewriters
The other night, when I was on my way to rehearsal, JC called me to tell me that Silas had written “Lyra” with his bath foam letters. “Did he know […]
Paperback Writer
Yesterday, Silas, Petra, and I had a picnic lunch with a dear friend who has just returned after spending a year on the left-hand side of the map. How I […]
Piecing it together
We’re about 90% sure that Silas really read–as in, sounded out–two words this week. The first was “dog,” a couple of days ago. Interestingly, “doggy” was the first word he […]