owen is growing up so fast. in just one short year, he'll be getting ready to start at my school. i've had people ask me already this year if owen is coming to my school this year. i'm glad for his october b-day. he's not ready for formal school just yet. i'll bet that in a year he will be. last night we played a board game for the first time. it's based off of two of his favorite eric carle books. it's a matching game, which he easily mastered. remember playing "memory" as a child? it's basically the same thing, but you have to pick the cards up and match them to spots on the game board. we played three times. the first time was just to show him how to play. the second and third times were for real. he legitimately won both of those times. then i brought out the pink material (part of the montessori language materials, three letter phonetic words to match to pictures, mounted and laminated on pink paper) to start on. i got a large set of that material from one of the teachers at school who is replacing it with newer pink material. she asked me if i wanted it to bring home for owen. of course i said yes. i think i'm going to get the book from her and see exactly how i'm supposed to be teaching this work to him. i have some ideas, but i want to make sure they're appropriate before i get too far in to it. we're going to start with initial sounds, i think. put out three pictures cards that start with different sounds (pin, dog, box) and have him figure out the first sound and then find the word card to match. he showed some interest last night. i'll follow his lead, though.
ok. i'm yawning again. i think i'll climb back in bed and try to get a little bit more sleep. the alarm goes off at 6...i need to be able to get up then.
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