*note-I can't get the font to fix itself, where the second half of the post isn't in caps, it's really weird. I swear I'm not "yelling" though*
Occasionally I get a little freaking out by Molly and what she's doing. Lately she is just taking off and I can visibly see her making connections and growing and it's crazy. She started sounding out words sometime in November, so 7 months ago. She is now reading on a first grade level and beyond. Tonight she read the first two verses of "My Shadow," a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson. She needed help on just a few words and I think if it had been earlier in the day she would've needed help with even less than she did, she always has more trouble when she's tired, but she wanted to read so we went with it.
Occasionally I get a little freaking out by Molly and what she's doing. Lately she is just taking off and I can visibly see her making connections and growing and it's crazy. She started sounding out words sometime in November, so 7 months ago. She is now reading on a first grade level and beyond. Tonight she read the first two verses of "My Shadow," a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson. She needed help on just a few words and I think if it had been earlier in the day she would've needed help with even less than she did, she always has more trouble when she's tired, but she wanted to read so we went with it.
This is what she read:
Yes it's enough... you are doing great! Don't worry about what kids her age are "supposed" to do. That's why we HS. Because who gets off thinking they have a right to decide what any kid at any age "should" be able to do. Grrr, that part gets me very irritated at the "experts" LOL. EVERY kid is different. What you are describing is my oldest...yet, my second child is 6, going into first grade and struggles with adding counting cubes and can barely read a BOB book. They are just all different, yet that doesn't make her any more normal or not normal than her "gifted" sibling in my opinion. You are doing such a great thing for her by homeschooling and allowing her to spread her wings and fly! Way to go Mamma! You won't damage her or hold her back by not doing enough...she'll show you what she needs as far as learning. If she's truly gifted (and it sounds like she is) nothing you can do or not do is going to change that. :)
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