Our Sterling Scholar- A Few Words about Madeline

Now, don't you just want to pinch those chubby little cheeks and tickle her under her little chin-roll?? And stick out your front two teeth a little?? Miss Madeline read her first book, TOO! It's a book of 3- to 5-letter words that Grandma and Grandpa gave her for Easter. She wanted to try reading her book since Raleigh knew how to read HER book. So we worked on putting the letter sounds together, and she GOT IT!! It was quite surreal. The Critter can read!

Here's Madeline on her way to preschool. She loves to go to school. She especially loves her teacher, Miss Jennifer, and all of her friends. She comes home with all of the latest 4-year-old gossip, and she tells us things that she is learning, such as: the rules for flying kites, the Nile is in Egypt, Miss Jennifer's blow dryer broke this morning, the ASL sign for ABC's along with the sounds each letter makes. She has also developed intense fears for "Leo the Lion" (she thinks he lives in our bathroom and insists that "he IS real, Mom.") and leprechauns (who were very mischevious in her classroom around St. Patty's Day).