New Blog Account

I have created a new blog account... I will no longer be up-dating posts to this account. If you still wish to follow my little family you can see us at www.watsonfamily2006.blogspot.com

PS. my new blog still has all of my old posts and will appear the exact same as this one.

Thanks!

Pictures

Pumpkin Carving

This year carving pumpkins was a lot more fun... Last year James was very nervous and cried the whole time. This year he was very onto it. He painted his pumpkin, colored on it and stabbed holes in it with a butter knife... Such a difference a year makes. Here are some pictures from this years occasion, and a video clip from last year.

Teaching James to Read

James seems to be very accelerated in the learning department. After researching a little of information online I have learned that he is most likely consider to be a gifted child. I taken a few online Q&A's as well as reading through several checklists that could help determine if he is in fact gifted. In most all areas he shows as an extremely high possibility. A pediatrician or specialist will not be able to determine if he is until he is about school age and can do the testing so until then I should be treating him as if he is. In doing so one of the biggest things that I should start working on him with is reading. I know your thinking "WHAT" he just turned two; I know I said the same thing. However I am going to attempt to teach him how to read. I wanted to share with you what is said to be the most affective way of teaching a child to read, especially at such a young age. It is called the phonics alphabet. The way this works is that you don't teach the kid what the name of letter is because the kids don't read the letters. You teach the kid the sound the letter makes. So when your kid looks at the letter "C" they don't say "SEE" they say "CUH". It's really interesting. Saying the alphabet just became a lot more challenging for me. Watch the video clip and you try to say the ABC's this way, it's quite funny!

Wish me luck as I teach James how to read.