BOB Books

Moriah became interested in the names and sounds of letters when she was about 20 months old. For her second birthday Grandma Bailey gave her the School of Tomorrow preschool curriculum. I then slowly began to introduce letters one at a time. In the curriculum, each letter sound has a story with an animal and a song (i.e. the short “a” sound is about Abby Antelope). Due to my lack of discipline, we have moved very slowwwwly through these stories. However, somehow between then and now, even though we still have not finished all of the letters, sounds, or their stories, Moriah knows all of the letter sounds.

She was desperate to read and trying to sound out words on her own in books. At the end of August this year, Grandma brought home the first set of BOB Books (beginning readers) and Moriah began to read, “a whole book”, as she would say. The first set includes 18 books. Many of them, especially books 1-7 she has read 2 and 3 times each. You see, she gets a BOB Books’ sticker in a little sticker book each time she reads a book to someone. Yesterday she read the last book, #18.

One of the joys of parenting is experiencing with your children learning new things and the excitement they have with accomplishing. Yes, there have been many tears on this road too as Moriah has really wanted to do it and is also learning to manage frustration. But, she did it and is so proud. With great enthusiasm this morning we opened set 2 of the BOB Books Collections and she read book #1.

As we continue on this journey of reading and mastering elements of it - digraphs, sight words, silent-e words, the impact of “watch out” vowels and so much more, a whole new world is opening to Moriah. As we are surrounded by written language, information will be endlessly available to her. She is constantly trying to solve the formation of letters and what they communicate, whether it is on a cereal box or a street sign. This is an end of a chapter and the beginning of a new one.

Moriah with set 1 of the BOB Books Collection

Moriah will be 4 on October 27th.