Reading.

S has asked for me to write words for her to try to read. She is doing passably well. Tonight she read "What words do you want me to write?" and "A word like coconut?" (The other night the girls were very amused with making sentences revolving around the word coconut). Then she read "The coconut put on a hat and sat on the mat." followed by, "The big pig ate the coconut and the hat, but did not eat the mat."

Something I've noticed as both girls have tried to read for me of late - S (8 years) has a pretty good handle on her lower case d's. H (10 years), on the other hand, still flips them and reads them as b's (and vice versa). H recently made some signs for the kitchen that read "NO bogss. NO Dogss." We do not have a rule in the house against bogs in the kitchen (though maybe we should), but H saw the "b" as a "d". I'm curious to see at what age she will reliably perceive the difference.

C (5 years) also asked me to write him words, but he still depends on guessing based on the first letter of the word, and he only guesses our names.