A Mother and Children Reading

While I've been busy unpacking and setting up house, I have sorely neglected my children.  I haven't taken them out (though the heat would have cancelled out any plans for walks and such) and I haven't read a whole lot to them lately.  Yes, I feel guilty.

It has gotten to the point that Gordon has been asking repeatedly that I "teach him words so he can read" to himself.  I guess this is a good thing -- in a way.  I never imagined he'd want to read on his own so soon.  I truly figured I had a good couple years ahead of us for reading prep.  Gordon has different plans; so, I guess VERY informal schooling will start this fall -- VERY informal.  He doesn't even know his letters by sight yet, so we will do the old CM (Charlotte Mason) method of teaching one letter at a time.  That in itself should take a while.  Then we will move on to simple words in nursery rhymes.  It is actually kind of exciting.

In other schooling thoughts. . .  I'm hoping to find some nature "activities" to do this fall with the help of some of my favorite CM nature study links.  I'll list them some other time -- when I figure out how to .  And I'm thinking I should divy up our books so that Gordon isn't having to read the same "year 0" books (and lists of books to buy) over and over for the next 3 years (Teeny too).

Well, plenty for me to list about!!!  That always makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.