More from Isaac
* Thursday I mailed off Isaac's application to kindergarten at our city's charter school. I didn't sniffle because I was too busy hoping that he gets in. There are 80 spaces for kindergarten -- 4 classes of 20 kids -- and the closest anyone we know has gotten to getting in is our friend Eva, who was 40th on the waiting list. It's such a wonderful school that everyone wants to go. So now we wait for the lottery in January.
* We started allowing Isaac to stay up late reading books. He has always had a lot of trouble falling asleep -- I usually put him to bed at 9:30 and he stays up almost every night till 11 or later just laying around in the dark. During my massive night-owl reading kick of late, it stupidly occurred to me that perhaps Isaac would benefit from reading alone after Jakey hits the hay. So I let him stay up as long as he wants to keep reading by himself. He can call me in to read one book to him, but then it's lights out. The last few nights, I've insisted that he and I read that book together. I pick out a book he's almost memorized and point at the words as I read them, asking him to sound out a few words here and there, if he can. He has his letters and phonics pretty much down, thanks to preschool. I figure this way we'll start the reading ball rolling without any pressure.
* Perhaps related, but he has a sudden interest in "reading" the newspaper. Friday he carried an old newspaper -- the sports section -- around with him all day, looking at the pictures. We went to the grocery store to get a snack before preschool and he rode around in the cart with it open, poring over all the pictures. Our favorite checker, Mary, made a huge deal out of him, asking him who his favorite team is (it's the Eagles) and giving him a stern lecture on the importance of cheering for the Phillies. He carried it into preschool today wide open so that everyone would run into him and comment on what he was doing. Miss Susie asked him if he had any advice for her on the stock market.
* We started allowing Isaac to stay up late reading books. He has always had a lot of trouble falling asleep -- I usually put him to bed at 9:30 and he stays up almost every night till 11 or later just laying around in the dark. During my massive night-owl reading kick of late, it stupidly occurred to me that perhaps Isaac would benefit from reading alone after Jakey hits the hay. So I let him stay up as long as he wants to keep reading by himself. He can call me in to read one book to him, but then it's lights out. The last few nights, I've insisted that he and I read that book together. I pick out a book he's almost memorized and point at the words as I read them, asking him to sound out a few words here and there, if he can. He has his letters and phonics pretty much down, thanks to preschool. I figure this way we'll start the reading ball rolling without any pressure.
* Perhaps related, but he has a sudden interest in "reading" the newspaper. Friday he carried an old newspaper -- the sports section -- around with him all day, looking at the pictures. We went to the grocery store to get a snack before preschool and he rode around in the cart with it open, poring over all the pictures. Our favorite checker, Mary, made a huge deal out of him, asking him who his favorite team is (it's the Eagles) and giving him a stern lecture on the importance of cheering for the Phillies. He carried it into preschool today wide open so that everyone would run into him and comment on what he was doing. Miss Susie asked him if he had any advice for her on the stock market.
posted by Claire at 11:27 PM
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We are also waiting on a charter school lottery (though here, they call them magnet schools). I'm torn... it's a great school and very close to home... but I have to drive him and pick him up every day. Bleh. And his districted school is almost as good and he'll have neighborhood friends both places. So it's a toss up! We don't get a decision until march though!
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