Reading and Writing Books

Right after breakfast, the toddlers started our Thursday Talkies. We started off with a couple of their reading books which I read to them. To check their comprehension, I would ask them some questions after a couple of pages. Jade is usually able to answer my questions while Jakei often just parrots what his sister says.

We then moved on to our workbooks.  I bought three different workbooks fo Jade to use: English Workbook for Kindergarten, Learning Horizons Beginning Sounds, and Little Genius Learning Writing for ages 2-4.  She can already identify all the letters of the alphabet and their corresponding sounds.  She’s able to match the pictures with their beginning letters in The Learning Horizons Beginning Sounds workbook.  She can write yet though so I write letters on sticker paper which she uses to fill in the blanks in some of the activities.   Both the English Workbook and the Little Genius Workbook have great activities for practice writing although the toddlers love the latter better for its colorful pictures. The English Workbook has the most varied activities which include writing skills, phonemic awareness, matching words with their beginning or ending sounds, comparisons, and vocabulary building.

I just usually print out some worksheets for Jakei to do as he doesn’t really have any interest in answering the acivities in the workbooks yet.  He’s quite happy just doodling or smashing crayons onto his sheets of paper. Sometimes, he asks for the Little Genius Workbook and names the pictures he recognizes or asks for the names of the ones he doesn’t recognize.

We’ve been trying to practice his pencil grip but he’s really quite stubborn about it. Since he’s not yet even two years old, I just let him do what he wants anyway.