Happy 7th Birthday
February 7, 2017 Fall 2016 How can it be. The eve of you turning 7. ½ way to 14 (ick). I marvel at how fast this last year has again, flown by. We just finished our nightly ritual. Homework, dinner, special treat, ipad time, bath (or shower sometimes now – but you still love your relaxing baths), then we say our goodnights and settle down to read before bed. But tonight was different. Tonight, you read to me. You not only read to me, but you read like a pro. Big words not causing you any pause, and your enjoyment of the fun rhymes flowing off your tongue like you’ve been reading all your life (hardly). I listened, and thought about the fact it was the last time you would read to me as a six year old. I am simply blown away by the little things, that are truly the big things. The fact that phonics is nothing for you to process. This comes naturally I suspect (pay off from reading to you since birth). The fact that your maps test scores at school show