CJ can read!

I was supposed to write this post before CJ's third birthday but syempre diko na naman nagawa. We have confirmed that CJ can already read. We were wondering if CJ could really read because whenever we were in the car and CJ would see the sign "TAXO" above a taxi, he would say, "Taxi!". So we thought if he saw a sign on top of a car he would automatically say taxi even though he could not read it yet. One time, he got his London Taxi toy car, a gift from his Tito Carl, and he said "taxi". The word "taxi" was written at the side of the car and not on top of the car, so we thought that he could really read. So we tried other words and indeed he could read.

I think this is because I had taught him the sounds of each letter and that he should just put the sounds of the letters together so he can read the word. Part of the credit, of course, goes to Sing, Spell, Read, Write, a learning to read system which I bought from C&E Bookshop (rather, I told honey to buy from C&E bookshop, hehe). I heard about it from Teacher Jeannie of Kindermusik, and I also read about it at momexchange. I looked it up in the net and found out that homeschooling programs such as The Master's Academy use it too. In the pinoyhomeschool yahoogroup (in which I am a lurker), it was also recommended. So I used some money I saved to buy it for my baby. It was my christmas and birthday gift to him. Two-in-one na kasi medyo mahal diba, P4.5k for the whole set.

Of course when I saw the manual and found out that it would really take a lot of effort to follow the program and I am really tamad to do that, I just let the cd play and "made dikit" (hehe, parang tusok-tusok the fishballs) the visual materials on the wall (on manila paper muna syempre para di masira ang pintura). I just point to the letters and the pictures (and the words na rin, soon) while the cd is playing, and voila! The tamad mommy's way of teaching her child how to read. Hehe.

Teaching the sounds of each letter really works. CJ has one workbook for it at Mother Goose. And shempre palaging very good ang baby ko hehe. Palagi siyang may smiley face na tatak sa kamay hehe. E pano napaka-chicken naman to ask him about the sounds of letters diba. Hehe.

Naalala ko when I asked the secretary if CJ could already enrol sa next level this coming schoolyear considering young pa sya for that level. Sabi nya, "kaya na po nya. Matalino po siya." Syempre sabi ko, thank you, ikaw naman (something like that). Medyo nahiya lang ako to say, "Eh kanino pa ba naman magmamana yan?" Ehehehehe! That is my usual line to my relatives kasi hehehe.

Ayan, na-miss ko tuloy ang baby ko.