Reading

Each night we lay in bed with Aidan and Aaron and they get to read to us.  Aaron always brings home his reading counts book.  Aaron's teacher spent the first 1/2 of the year focusing on the letters, their sounds and the 'special' word rules.  Aaron reads every word of a book - he will not move on until he knows the word.  This makes for a lot of questions, but it is a patients exercise for mom and dad ;-).

Aidan's style is totally different.  He gets big chapter books regardless of the level.  If he does not know the word he just keeps going.  I was worried he did not understand the content, but he can tell you exactly what happened even if he does not know all the words. 

Listening to the two of them read one after another makes it very difficult not to compare.  We try so very hard not to compare.  We don't dress them alike, it makes me mad when people as who was the first-born, or who is bigger....  I don't even like to refer to them as twins - they are two very different little boys.  But Aaron was starting to notice that Aidan was reading a little better than him.  It is my job as a mom to keep their confidence level up so I talked to Aaron's teacher about his reading progress.  Come to find out Aaron is one of the highest-level readers in his class and he is reading at a first grade level.  Soooo... Aaron is doing super, he just happens to live with another very smart guy.

We were very honored when Aidan's teacher asked him to read at Camp Kindergarten, which is a pre-registration for next years Kindergarten.  Only six kids were asked to read, and we are so very proud of Aidan's hard work.  Like I said he does not turn down a hard book – he is one awesome reader!