The Happy Reader

Maddie is not our reader. It has worried us (okay me) a bit since everyone else in the family likes to read. It isn't that she can't do it. She actually can but she is easily frustrated and then makes mistakes and then cries and frankly, it is just awful and painful. Destiny came to us reading and Abby seemed to pick it up overnight at school so we are struggling to find what motivates her.

Her teacher found it. Apparently for good behavior the kids get points and Maddie had enough points to choose an activity and so based on her love for her Kindergarten teacher she chose to go to her old Kindergarten classroom to read. She hemmed and hawed for several days over books, cried when she couldn't read some of them well enough but she finally settled on a Dr. Seuss book called "The Ear Book."

From all accounts and the note her old Kindergarten teacher sent home she did fabulously. "Thank you Maddie for coming to read to us. You did a fantastic job." I think this is just what she needed to push her a little, give her more confidence and motivation. Go Maddie!!!!