Look Ibu, I'm reading!

this year, Azraf gets to take home the book he's currently working on for the reading programme in school.

the first day, he was so excited and insisted we went through the whole book 1 of read easy and also buku 1 of bacalah anakku -- ibu yang tak larat!

then, as expected, the enthusiasm went up and down according to his mood for the day, but so far, he hasn't really made an issue trying to get out of practising at home, not that we do it every night.

I know that with buku 1 & 2, he was 'cheating' a bit, rather than figuring out the suku kata, he was really doing a whole word kind-of thing. but it was important that he felt he was making progress, so I just let it go.

last night, we started with bacalah anakku buku 3. according to teacher su's note, they've been working on the book for 3 days and he has only gotten as far as page 3. we started with page 1, then after page 3, he decided he wanted to go ahead to page 4.

and the light bulb was switched on. as he was doing it, he realized he was actually figuring the words out on his own, and he could really read! he stumbled a bit on the the new suku kata, but otherwise it has started to dawn on him that hey, I can actually really do this!

and he was so enjoying this -- he insisted on working throguh the whole book!

oh, and abang amjad sagely gave him this advise -- abang de practise sampai 20 kali, mesti abang de boleh buat punya.