I listened to the music/audio of the story and boy I WAS INTO IT.

World Building(Immersion): 3 🌎🌎🌎 Submerged. Jordan Simons for getting me ahead on my reading goal 😂😅😂). (And yea I did go to his YouTube page and binged all the books as a cleaned, thanks Mr. The rapping of the book? 10/10 probably the most fun I have had in a while. Nothing extraordinary even by children literature standards. SIGNING ABOUT A FLY, A COW, A TOAD AND I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT NOW. Somehow I blinked and boom 💥, three minutes had gone by I was nodding my head walking around organizing the living room. I swear I was going to stay for just a bit. I haven’t read a single book this month until I accidentally (not so accidentally) binged this video of a guy rapping kids books. It's well worth your time and money if you're in the market for a kid's book. There's a lot of good reasons that this one's a classic. Near.) And some tricky but very common words that are almost impossible to sound out. Take.) And words with the 'ea' letter combination.

There's a bunch of similar words with the silent 'e.' (Make. Once they learn to read the word 'They' they'll get plenty of chance to practice it. For kids that are learning to read, this is key. There is a lot of good word and letter repetition. What's more, it's simply not very much bang for your buck.Īlso, what would you rather do? Read a 16 page book to a kid 10 times. That might be perfect for holding the attention span of a 1 year old, but if you want your kids to be able to concentrate for longer than the span of a superbowl commercial, you might want to consider reading them longer books. And I find it kinda disheartening when I pick up one that's only 16 pages long.ĭon't get me wrong. And I love that he looks through them even when he can't make out all the words by himself. He does this sometimes, when Sarah and I are busy. I actually found him sitting in the stairwell flipping through the book on his own. But today was an entirely different experience, because today we read this book together. I'd read it long ago, and enjoyed it well enough. I just read this book with my oldest boy, age 5.

A fly went by by mike mcclintock