And so it begins

Anna is learning to read. Tonight we were playing with foam letters, trying to spell simple words. We started with DARK, and then swapped out the D for a B, making BARK. I then suggested she swap out the B for a P and see what she gets. Because she's new at this, she sometimes tries to read right to left instead of left to right. And there was my sweet little 3-and-a-half year old saying "KRAP, Mommy. It spells krap."

Leaps and Bounds

Despite being out of school for a month now, Anna has hit some kind of intellectual growth spurt here in Rouen. In the past 4 weeks she has begun to decipher both reading and spelling by sounding out words, do basic addition, and has just completed (with me) her first 100 piece puzzle. Super exciting. :-)