P has been surrounded by books and folks who love to read her whole life. She has seen her parents and brothers read. Everyone but her reads books with no pictures! This fascinated her when she first picked up one of the boys books and noticed that the pages were filled with very small letters. She would sit hunched over one of their open books and study it until she found a letter she recognized. This was usually one of the capitol letters at the beginning of a paragraph. We would watch her concentration peppered with "there is an E." or "I see a P."
She has progressed to doing a little writing.
And even some reading!
I love that she is not afraid to try reading! She will run her fingers along the words and read aloud what she sees. Recipes often say "You must eat all your dinner before you have a cookie."
The other day I gave her a little tea set that used to be mine. She set out a little tea party right away.
As she was feeding little "ploopy" she noticed that there was writing on the bottom of the tea cup.
It says, "I need more tea."
Can you read it?
