JS Can/Wants To Read

OK..this is nothing grand to brat about, just another milestone of JS achieved

She’s reaching the stage that she’s showing interest in reading. She loves her readers and will take the initiative to read the whole book (she’s doing book 4 now)… I would prefer her to go on a slower pace , like one page a day and get to remember the new words well enough before moving on to the next page, but she would insist on reading page after page and she’s not tire of reading the whole book again few times a day.

She gets excited when she spots the words she knows in the newspaper or the books that I’m reading and also her story books. She’s learning to spell and also she will make up words by putting the alphabets together and ask me what words would that be. But she’s still very bad with her phonic that’s why her spelling is still not that good.

She’s also taken an interest in Mandarin well. Started to speak on her own initiative. Last week I took her for the first trial enrichment class in Mandarin, she loves it so much that she’s asking me every night to send her there (I suppose it’s the best way to occupy her time instead of asking me whether she could watch TV all the time when she’s bored and when I’m running out of idea to occupy her)

She’s also taken her own initiative to learn to write Chinese strokes which I don’t have to force her to do.

It’s certainly one encouraging sign to see.