"It's 2s DAY!" exclaimed little Berkley Ella while on the phone to Grandma. Yeah, I thought to myself she is beginning to read. My mother/teacher experiment is catching on! Just a little combination of symbols, phonetic spelling and connecting to real life experiences that happen on particular days! Ok, so I can't say that I am the creator of this "inventive" spelling, but it does seem to be working for my SWEET 2 year old.
Two's, two's.....the "teachable two's," as her Sunday School teacher likes to call this age. Catchy, I thought when first hearing her positive approach to the usual negative "terrible two's." It's true....never underestimate the sponge-like mind of a two year old. They are capable of SO much and WANT 2 learn 2. We are seizing this opportunity and have been learning the days of the week.
Being a logical thinker, Berkley quickly picked up "shapes" on her own around 1 and a half. We then started finding colors in the world around us and this morning she explained to me that there was an airplane flying up in the blue sky.
The teacher in me has many ideas...but I am letting her guide her own learning. ABC's are coming along, as I hear her own version of the little song improving with each passing day. But, for this little learner the days of the week are more her slice of pie (for now at least). So, each night before bed we review the present day, talk about the next, and write the next day down in our own 2 year old way.
Since turning two I have been pondering some adjectives to describe my SWEET little Berkley and here they are in random order:
Observant
Compassionate
Organized
Friendly
Girly
Active
Determined
Attentive (to details)
Categorizes/Classifies
Thinker
I haven't "retired" from my job as a teacher, I just have my own students now living under our own roof. What a blessing 2 spend each moment of each day enjoying life and learning together! We can create our own curriculm, take our own field trips, learn on our own time schedule, and let my 2 SWEET students guide their own learning.
As for today, it's 2s DAY and we've counted Protein Bars in the grocery basket, been to the library to return and borrowed books, touched a "real" firetruck.....so many opportunities for my 2 SWEETS, especially my little SWEET born on 2sDAY, June 19th 2007-Berkley Ella who recently turned 2 and would be happy to tell you that today is "2s DAY!"
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Add "Sweet" to the list of adjectives. Berkley is so sweet. This is a precious post Amy. You have a once-in-a-lifetime opporturnity and an entire classroom right under your roof limited only be your imagination and subject to the freedom of your own time schedule. I love you Sweet. Berkley and Major are so blessed to have you as their mother. LOLove
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