Alice Homeschools
A Home Based Education - Kindergarten year

Alice sounded out “friend” today!

What an awesome first word to learn to read!

We have been working on phonics and the alphabet a lot, every day it seems. I found a cool website that has interactive games for kids and at first I let her play the letter games. Those are the very beginning ones - they tell you the letter sound and give you one word that goes with that letter.

The next step is learning to read ~ when you click on a word, it is sounded out letter by letter and you can click on every word in the sentence. The character also does something when you click on it. The are quite a few books to pick from on that site and we just started on the learn to read section this week.

Then today she spelled friend and said “Look Mom, friend!” I asked her how did she know it said friend and she said that she sounded out each letter! How cool is that!

Of course she knows other words and can spell them, but this is the first one that she said she sounded out.

I’m very excited. The other night Chris told her that she would soon be able to read Calvin and Hobbes on her own - that made her very happy.