{"id":12567,"date":"2018-02-23T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=12567"},"modified":"2018-02-22T21:12:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T03:12:57","slug":"super-reader-josiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=12567","title":{"rendered":"Super Reader Josiah!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=12546\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12546\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12546\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28217769_10160389536705157_1929017585_o-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28217769_10160389536705157_1929017585_o-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28217769_10160389536705157_1929017585_o-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28217769_10160389536705157_1929017585_o-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have known that Josiah enjoys reading and has a good aptitude for it, but at conferences last night we saw again just how well he is doing.\u00a0 His teacher tested what sight words he is familiar with:\u00a0 He knows all 50 Kindergarten sight words&#8230; basically all of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>First grade<\/strong><\/span> sight words&#8230;\u00a0 and 2\/3 of the <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Second grade<\/span><\/strong> sight words!\u00a0 He came home the other day with a list of words that he can read\/spell without help, and among those words were: February, scissors, reading, happy, world, recess and toilet!<\/p>\n<p>He has been so pleased to finally be able to read this year.\u00a0 It has been amazing to watch him go.\u00a0 The other day I saw him open one of his library books and I looked over his shoulder to see what it was, and it looked a bit hard.\u00a0 I said, &#8220;Oh, buddy, I think that book is going to be a little hard for you.\u00a0 Why don&#8217;t you pick a different one.&#8221;\u00a0 He simply said, &#8220;No, Mom, it&#8217;s not too hard&#8211;watch!&#8221;\u00a0 And he proceeded to read the whole page easily.\u00a0 Not only did he read the correct words, but he also read it with the right inflection.\u00a0 That kid amazes me sometimes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have known that Josiah enjoys reading and has a good aptitude for it, but at conferences last night we saw again just how well he is doing.\u00a0 His teacher tested what sight words he is familiar with:\u00a0 He knows all 50 Kindergarten sight words&#8230; basically all of First grade sight words&#8230;\u00a0 and 2\/3 of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12567"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12569,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12567\/revisions\/12569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}