Love of Learning

Madelyn has always enjoyed learning but lately she has blossomed.  She doesn't take naps at school anymore so she goes to the "awake" room.  She transitioned to the awake room back in Sept after the 5 year old went to kindergarten.  She was so excited!  She talks about it all the time and loves all the "challenging work" she does during that time.  She is sounding out letters in order to write words and I think reading will come next.  She recognizes words and pictures so it's almost like she can read but she's not quite there yet.  Many nights during dinner she will ask how to spell words and her latest is she copies words and phrases.  Her penmanship has gotten so much better lately.  She used to write all over the page but now she writes in straight lines and you can read what she is writing.  She learned how to spell her last name so she loves signing cards now with her name, Jack and Bormann after each name! :)

Earlier this week she couldn't wait to tell us that she got a reading book at school!  She is first one in her class to get this book and is very proud....as are we!  It's the next step in learning to read.  She showed Ryan the first night he picked her up and then the next morning we looked at it and she was very excited to work on it in the awake room.  It's fun to see her brain processing and learning all these new things.  They truly are little sponges at this age and it's amazing to us all that she has learned and she hasn't even started kindergarten yet!