Early Reading

This picture was taken last Friday at MECC when I went to guest read to my daughter's kindergarten class (Doesn't she look so much like me?  Ha ha).  Little kids are sooooo excited about books.  I swear they had comments about every page of The Halloween Queen.  This is a cute little story of a protagonist (a little girl dressed in a bumble bee Halloween costume) who is scared to go trick-or-treating to the spookiest house on the block.  She (oddly) has no parents with her, even though she looks quite young.  Nevertheless, she travels door to door and finally gains the courage to go up to the scary house.  When she knocks, a woman dressed as a witch answers and waves her inside.  To the bumble bee's surprise, there is a fun (and not-so-scary Halloween party inside).  The bumble bee girl has fun with all her friends and at the end the witch takes off her mask to reveal......

Drumroll please!

That it is really their favorite teacher in disguise.   It is a cute read.  We got it from the Mason Public Library and had been reading it all week so Tessa really wanted me to read it to her class. 

I am impressed that only two months into kindergarten she is reading simple books aloud by herself.  These little minds are sponges and I'm sure she'll be reading Romeo and Juliet like all my 9th graders in the blink of an eye.