Smarty Pants

Emily gets homework in preschool every Thusday. About 1.5 months ago she had a DVD to watch. The DVD was one that taught a few sight words that kids learn in kindergarten and 1st grade. Oh man, the movie was dreadful. The word would pop up on the tv screen and then the word was repeated 100 times over the next 30 seconds, okay maybe not that many times. The word would be written in normal type and then it would be changed into some sort of cartoon. For example the word MY would be a whale. Anyway, Allie sat down and watched the video with Emily. After it went through once Allie started saying the word as soon as it showed up on the screen before they even said it. I thought it was just a freak thing. About a week later I wrote some of the words down on a piece of paper and asked her what they said. She got them right. I wrote words that were similar to the words that she knew to see if she would say the wrong word, she didn't she just told me that she didn't know that word.

I finally took the time to record her reading (recognizing) these words. There are a few more words that she knows but these are the only ones that I had flash cards for.

As you can tell she still has the normal 2 year old attention span and can't sit still for very long. She is such a smart little girl.