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We have been home since Saturday (except for me working last night) with poor Jordan who has not been feeling well. Her poor little nose is stuffed up, or running alternately. She has however gotten very good at blowing her nose, and taking only one tissue out of the box. She’s also better at wiping her own nose, but she still needs help sometimes. Mike was drilling her on her letters this morning, and she knows her uppercase letters quite well. She couldn’t remember Q or X, and maybe one other, but it could have been the way they were written. I’m starting to add lower case letters to the mix now, and she’s doing okay with those. I was quite impressed when I asked her where a lower case b was on a page with all mixed up letter,s and she pointed right at it without hesitation! She can also draw “O”, “U”, and “C”, though sometimes U and C aren’t perfect. And O has a tail at times, but she gets the concept at least. I think we’ll add the sounds that the letters make soon, since she is so interested in how words are spelled. I would love to get her reading early. I went to my first practicum experience for my Master’s last week, and was shocked by the students who couldn’t recognize more than 3 letters. It was a kindergarten class, and some of them speak only Spanish at home, but they should at least know the names of the letters in Spanish I would think! It’s not like Chinese or another language with a completely different set of symbols. Anyway, I go to my second day of kindergarten tomorrow, just for a couple hours, then next Monday it will be my Title One school in 4th grade. Whee! Well, back to the books, just wanted to update on the family.