Noah - The Marvel

This kid, wow.... he never ceases to amaze us!  And we have to take just a minute and brag on him because he's doing just so darn well lately!!!  

He's been learning phonics in school and wants to learn to read SO bad!  He tries to sound out everything he sees everywhere we go to figure out what something says.  It's been both fun and challenging, to say the least.  ;)  So we started off with a couple of things to help make reading fun with some ideas Jen found off Pinterest.  He basically blew through those in one sitting and looked around for more!  Ok then.  ;)

So she sought out advice from a couple of her teacher friends and they recommended the BOB Books. What a fantastic recommendation!!!!  We get them from the library, he begs to read from them every day (and blows through the set, mind you) and then wants to know when we can pick up the next book set!!! Love, love, love these books for beginning readers!!!

So to challenge him a little more on non-school days, Jen found some word searches online. You can get them customized from Pre-K through 3rd grade.  Well.  In no time at all, he had found all of the words on this page.  Apparently we need to up our game.  ;)  (did you notice how he did a pattern with his colors when finding the words - did that all on his own, too!)

Next up, we're getting the Kindergarten "Big Workbook" and some other harder books with word searches in them.  We figure he'll need something to do during the summer to help pass the time some days and since he loves to learn, why not?  :)  

Oh, and by the way, he had his very first professional school portraits done last week at school. Oh.My.Goodness!!!!  Does this ever make you want to bawl your eyes out?!?!  (sorry for the poor quality - we snapped it with our phone since we didn't have time to scan it into the computer yet.)