We got this free map of the world in the mail this morning. I hung it up on the counter so the kids could see it. Emmie was over there saying, "There's China, and Japanese and Iceland and Greenland." I thought she was just naming off countries we had talked about since the Olympics. I went over to show her where the countries really were and she showed me! In fact she found them faster than I did. I asked her how she knew where the countries were and she said she just read them.
She was surprised to know there was an actual Greenland. The kids have a place they call Greenland behind the house Scott stays in when he is working at Marshall Hospital. It's a fairly small patch of mossy turf some trees grow out of.
I corrected her and told her the country was called Japan and she laughed and was so embarrassed she had called it Japanese.
I received a note home last week telling me Emmie's kindergarten class was "...having fun learning about the letter C!" I may have to have a talk with the teacher. Emmie is obviously ready to move on.
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Hooray Emmie! Don't you just love how slow things move in kindergarten? lily is sent home with the simplest little readers to hold onto and read over and over--whatever. We just do our own thing at the house!
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