Kinder Reading

In the previous post, I moaned about jumping in way too deep with the wrong reading curriculum.  But my husband has wisely advised me to make the most of it and just stick with it and READ as much as we can with our kids.  They're bright and they're catching onto this reading thing despite their poorly planned homeschool days and scatterbrained mama...  Praise the Lord!

A few weeks ago, my tutor cancelled class one morning and I had the chance to skim through all 400 ish pages of the Kindergarten workbook and teachers book to try to select a simplified version that might be most helpful/useful for our kids, considering the level they're already at.  So now I have these simplified workbooks (xeroxed worksheets for them to write on) for each of them and I'm going through those, starfall, and will be adding in a few lessons (see below) and I think that will be our K reading plan.

We just recieved the book Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons.  I have heard a half dozen moms rave about this book....  it must be The Way to go.  But, our kids are welllll past lesson one now (at 5.75 and 4.4 years old) and it seems plain enough that we don't need to go back to start to lesson one just to do things this one way.

Here's a brief list of the perks I've picked up from this book

So, as of today, we're going to try to put our noses down and stick with this makeshift plan.... and I am encouraged with where they're at already.... that our kids are learning to read!  How Exciting!!!
Gifts from the exceptionally kind Jeanne @ Book Ends, arrived a few days ago so our kids now have a nice little pile of beginning reader books to select from.  We're already done with the first book on each of their reading charts and these two are *Motivated*.  Ice Cream for every 5 books they read.   This is a fun time!

Lavish thanks and cheers for my hubby (for advising me to not pitch every program that didn't seem perfectly suited to us in its orginal form) and to Jeanne.  Oh these books.....

They're reading!!!  (beginning to!!)  What a JOY!!!