Exciting events

Oh, I just can't wait to share this. Tabitha sounded out her first word today! We hadn't done our word cards for several days, so today we started our lesson time with them. I pull the pictures off the poster and lay them on a chair. Then I slowly sound out each word while running my finger under the letters. Then the girls get to find the picture and add it to the poster. Our Pp words are penguin, pumpkin, puppy, peanut, pig and pan. Today I asked Tabitha to sound out "pan." She got it!! I was so excited. Then she did it later for daddy. :)

The second exciting event was the arrival of our first postcard from the postcard exchange. We got a postcard from Indiana. I have yet to do the map with the girls. We are going to review our town map from early in the summer, then I am going to show the girls a map of our area from mapquest that has a route laid out that we take occasionally, then a map of Pa, before showing them where Pa is on the USA map. That is the plan anyway. We did quite a bit on our penguin lapbooks today, so I decided to let them watch a Baby Einstein video we got out of the library instead of going into the map lesson.

If you would like to join us in the postcard exchange we would love to have you participate. We have sent out 3 postcards so far. Here are the rules again:

Anyway, if you want to join the fun, here's what you need to do:

1. Simply leave me a comment letting me know you're interested and I in turn will be in touch via email to exchange our mailing addresses.
2. Agree to "pay it forward" - i.e. send a postcard back to me. And, if you're interested, post about this on your own blog and get others involved, too. If you do, please include a link to my blog, thank you.
3. When selecting your postcards, choose ones with geographical pictures or images of things specific to where you live.