Gloria reads!

Gloria got her own Minecraft account! Her reward for learning to read, along with the reward of actually being able to read, of course. She read Little Bear straight through, having never read it before, and answered questions correctly about the plot.

Way to go, Gloria! She is delighted to no longer have to scrape by on borrowed family accounts with no creative control over her appearance, and she chose Benny (SPACESHIP!!!) from the LEGO Movie for her first character skin.

General update

We're progressing with Hero's Journey, still n track. We're taking this week off, planned, for the Fourth. But we've completed Week 3 with almost no stress.

Gloria is still reading. I just bought a whole slew of I Can Reads for her. She's spot-on for age.

I got Oak Meadow 4 for Gilbert and Trixie, but haven't really looked at it yet. I hope to get them started in about a month.

Abby got a Learn To Code subscription for her birthday, and plans to make a Minecraft mod soon. I'll be posting that here as well.

Faith will be reading and summarizing The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr, about how the Internet rots the brain.

Reading with Gloria: Short o

Gloria and I are reading together to solidify her grasp. We're going through Starfall, using the app on my phone, which has multiple storybooks for each letter. Today we finished short i and started short o. She's made a real breakthrough in reading in the last few weeks. She had so much anxiety about it. I think she just had to grow up a bit more, and also just keep trying. The most progress was made while she read comic books of her choosing from our extensive collection without anything to do with me. No stress then. Also, having to decipher Minecraft, but without much stress because the other kids, especially her godbrother, Aaron, wrote as simply add they could for her. Such a sweet kid.

Anyway, that's a long way to say she's making real progress and will be reading anything she likes within a few months at most.