Supriya's Progress Report

Supriya is going great guns on all her fronts as well. She is doing Taekwondo 3 times a week at Lowell Taekwondo and really enjoying it. Yesterday she started a new session of Pool School to work on her technique. She is practically swimming in that she can make her way across the pool and back. But her stroke is really pathetic. That is a shame because she is so strong that she can practically outswim Manisha and me even with that inefficient technique! She is enjoying the class and I can't wait to see her swim with a clean stroke.

Supriya has always been a very good singer, but now she appears to be enjoying it as well! She is an Auditory learner and learns words & tunes very easily. We have all been singing along with the Wee Sing America CD and she knows more songs from there than I do. The new session of our homeschooling family chorus (All Together Now) has started and she knows all the songs. Now she is after me to get her a solo in the chorus!

Her latest accomplishment is reading. For the last couple of months she has been burying herself in books and really teaching herself to read. Her confidence is growing and her sight-recognition is improving rapidly. Just the other day she read me several instruction from the Hullabaloo booklet - from "Stay still when you hear 'Freeze!'" to "More than one player can share the same pad." Today she kept pausing the Pink Panther cartoon DVD so that she could read the billboards and such.

Her reading skills have been developing for a long time. It was not like an electric bulb going on as it is for some kids. She has worked at it and now we can call her a bona-fide reader!