Adeline is always the one that ends up knocking my socks off in the academic department. It isn't that my other girls aren't bright or that Adeline can out perform them. While my other two girls fall right where I expect them to be, Adeline continues to rise above the expectations I have set for her.
A couple nights ago we were looking at pictures of helicopters in different colors. Each helicopter had the color word written underneath it. As we moved across the page, I asked Adeline what letter each color word started with and she answered correctly. When I turned the page we found a color by number activity that had each color word written in black. I don't know why I did this but I asked Adeline to read the words to me and. . . she did! I was pretty impressed. I repeated it and found the same outcome. Savannah was so impressed that she quickly made some color word flash cards for Adeline which included the color words we had just covered and couple more. She threw in pink to try to trick her because the set included purple as well. I went over them twice with Adeline and she got most of them the first time and then all of them second. I was astounded. It was obvious that she was looking at the words, their letters and then thinking of those letter sounds when reading the words like green and gray or blue and brown.
Here is a clip of her third time through the cards. The last card is brown and Adeline begins to sound it out with a bl blend but then corrects herself with a br blend and proceeds to say "brown." Savannah misunderstands and thinks she says blue. Please excuse Lila's piano playing in the background.
By the way, she got them all right the next morning. It is reproducible which makes Alex and I scratch our head in wonder.
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