Fun with phonics
I’ve been swamped with editing work lately. This is a good thing. I also went for an interview for a library job. The fact that I need to be in Portland for 2 weeks at the end of September sorta takes me out of the running but the human resources person and I hit it off and I think I’ll hear from her eventually. I’d even consider taking a full-time job at this point if it means Brett could go back to school like he wants to.
Noah is singing all the time lately. He makes up songs or mixes up new lyrics with songs he already knows. He’s also into rhyming or telling himself what letters start different words. Yesterday he was in his carseat while we went on a million and one errands and he was talking to this little Clifford toy that has its own doghouse. Clifford’s name is on the roof of the doghouse and Noah was making up a song that went something like this, “Spell your name, spell your name, it’s C for cat and L for lion. That’s how you spell your name, it’s I for ice cream…” etc. I think he’ll be reading here in a few months. He really *wants* to read but you know what? Phonics are *hard!* I don’t know how people manage to read, especially self-taught people. My mom says that my brother, sister, and I were all self-taught readers but she also thinks we owe a lot to The Electric Company. I look at words like, say, “cough” and wonder how in the hell he’s ever going to get that. (By the way, some of the things mentioned in the link I just gave for The Electric Company are wrong–there was no math on the show for example. Read it with a jaundiced eye. 
And here’s a better link just in case you need it.
