Christmas 2013

Christmas 2013

Deuteronomy 11:18-19

18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Deuteronomy 11:18-19

New International Version (NIV)

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

J's Reading Fluency Score :)

I'm SO proud of him I could just BURST!!! :) 

We got an email from J's teacher yesterday with the results of his reading fluency test he did last week. He did amazing. According to his teacher most grade one students at the end of the year average + or - 10 around 53. So between 43 and 63cwpm (correct words per minute). 

So I was very happy to see that J got 73 cwpm!!! And 100% accuracy!!! All that reading on the computer, to the other kids and to himself is REALLY paying off!!! Right now he's reading "Farmer Boy" by Laura Ingalls Wilder and just loving it. 


The thing that keeps hitting me over and over is that I TAUGHT HIM TO READ!!! I sight read.. I don't/didn't know my phonics until I taught them to J!! He reads phonetically  better then I do!! Yet with our ACE ABC reading program he learned to read and I learned to read better :) Just goes to show.. we can do things bigger then ourselves.. With HIS help!! 


"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!! Philippians 4:13.

Baby J Is Stepping Out!!!

11 month old Baby J took his first steps yesterday!! He wasn't happy with just one so he took TWO!!! YAY!!! He got VERY excited when we all cheered and could hardly contain himself to take any more after that.. though he did get a few hurried steps in. Later that night he did it several more times gaining confidence with every step. If he keeps this up he'll be our second earlier walker.. L still has him beat as he walked/ran at 9 months!! J, E and R all walked the week or two after their 1st birthdays!!