I downloaded this File Folder game, Adam Names the Animals, from Bible Story Printables, because I want the twins to learn to read and have fun while they’re doing it.
Little did I know that it would lead to a unit study on animals. We took a field trip today that ties in with our study of animals. We saw (actually some of us rode) camels. We saw llamas, calves, goats, ponies and chickens (oops, that was the twins being afraid to ride the ponies!)
You can see pictures of these adventures at this post.
The twins are really getting the hang of reading now. They have been working through their Phonics books. They’re in Book C of the Primer for the Explode the Code series. They watched the Leapfrog DVD’s, and they have a good understanding of the way that letters go together to make words.
They have done a few other activities that have ignited their desire to learn to read. Their friend next door has been reading for a few years, and she’s the same age as they are, so that has been a very strong motivating factor. They are progressing well, and I’m proud of them.
"Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is placed in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no other's hands the sacred and holy trust given to her." -JR Miller
