Words everywhere!

JoElle is doing very well learning to read. Two days ago, she saw the word "run" and read it to me. I was a little bit suprised b/c it was not a word we had been working on.

JoElle is reading at least 20 words, probably more that I am not aware of.

She is great with recognizing the letters of the alphabet and their sounds and can write most of the letters. I throw in Spanish once a week or once every two weeks. She catches on to it extremely fast! One morning she woke up and said "Como te llamas?" Tim asked her if she was speaking Spanish, he wasn't sure :) She enunciates extremely well, you would think she is a native Spanish speaker. She learns really fast, so we don't spend much time each day or week on serious school work, 20 minutes a day or two a week is really all. Of course we are learning / teaching all day long, just not sitting down and formally learning.

Si le pregunta dónde están sus ojos que le apunta a los ojos.

(If you ask her where her eyes are, she will point to her eyes)

JoElle también sabe su nariz, la boca y la cabeza.

Officially we are on Letter N right now. She has masterd writing the letter M. The first time we tried it, she got extremely upset - she is very much a perfectionist. If she can't do it perfectly the first time, it makes her upset. We are working on staying calm and practicing and that is going pretty well. Yesterday she started to get upset that she couldn't put her baby's diaper back on, but she stopped herself from becoming frustrated and told me. I was proud of her!

Yesterday we talked about nurses and nests, practiced writing N and n. Later I had he write "Mama" and "Nana" and she did a great job writing both.