Gymnastics at Open House

Ethan's school had Open House last week. One of the things we did was go to the gym and watch the kids play on all the equipment. Ethan had fun swinging on a rope, running & jumping on the vault, and showing me what a good balancer he is on the balance beam.

I met with his teacher briefly and she told me he's doing a great job. We got to look through his writing notebook and see the stories he's coming up with. He's got a very good imagination.

One of his favorites was the library. Ethan was very excited to introduce me to the librarian and he made sure to give her a big hug when he saw her. He also loves that the beginning reader section has a whole area devoted to Dr Seuss. So far he's brought home 6 library books, all of them Dr Seuss, many of them we already have at home.

Last night he did his daily reading (about 3 pages) from the Dr Seuss ABC book (Big A, little a, what begins with A? Aunt Annie's alligator...A..a..A). I can't tell you how adorable he is sounding out the words. He takes his time sounding out each letter, sometimes to the point that he forgets the sounds from the beginning of the word and has to start all over. But once he got "alligator" he was so excited!

We're working each night on getting some reading done before the tv goes on...hopefully we'll be working on books with more than 5 words per page soon...