An interesting question, though I had to ask James a different question a few times last night.
He’s just a couple of months into Year One and yesterday be brought home a reader as part of his homework. It’s called, Are You a Ladybird?
I got the book out of his folder and asked him to read it to me. So he did. He pretty much read the whole thing, cover to cover, without much trouble.
I asked him if he had read it before. “No.” I asked if the teacher had read it to him. “No.” “So this is the first time you’ve read it?” “Yes.”
My boy can read. He’s had a fascination with words for a long time and has been reading words here and there whenever he can but this is just amazing. James is always making me proud but sometimes he just excels himself.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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Cool! I think it’s wonderful that you are so proud of your son for being able to read. All children should be as blessed as your kids to have a great dad like you!
The story inspires me because you haven’t had James in some excellerated learning program or put him under pressure to read before he got to school. But he is making great progress! However: You have failed to answer the question posed in the book. Please assure me that James can answer the question and knows if he is, in actual fact, a ladybird? 🙂
Regards – PETER
Well Peter, he knows he’s not a ladybird. In fact he thought it was a pretty lame question because each of the pictures clearly showed that the other creatures the ladybird was talking to were not ladybirds.
While he was amazed that the subject was so banal, he was very good at reading the book. 🙂