Learning Abc's
Ciaran had just sat down at the table and wondered what his mother wanted with him and he hope that he hadn’t done anything wrong. Shifting slightly in his chair as she walked in the room carring things in her hands and he wondered what it was.
“So what do you have there, Mom?”
“Some coloring books to help you learn your Abc’s, but you have to share these with your sister as well. For now you have first choice on which one you want to use.” She said as she sat down the books as Ciaran stood up in his chair to look at which one he wanted to use and then sat back down with the one he wanted.
“So learning my Abc’s will help me read books on old Japan?”
“Yes it will, but it will take lots of practice with smaller words first and books and then work your way up to bigger things.”
A little sad as he wanted to read for himself but then thought that everyone has to start some place. So he would just have to bug his mother and when his brother visited to have them read to him.
“Don’t worry, Ciaran. Soon you will be reading on your own.” His mother said trying to sooth her son. “A, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, and z. Are all of them. Now repeat them after me,”
So for the next hour Naggeela taught Ciaran his Abc’s and she also taught him words to go with each letter for him to remember more easily. Then have him read some simple books to her and for homework she had him color in the coloring books that she had brought for him to practice.
After his homework his mother had given him. She had come back to teach him his numbers and was careing some more books with her as she sat down next to him.
"Now we are going to be learning number where you can count things and such," she said.
"So will I beable to see how many swords you have in your collecting?" Ciaran asked.
"Yes, but you will still not be able to touch them until you are older tho,"
Smileing and snaping his fingers as she figured out what he was going to try and do. He shruged and thougth that he could anow his sister with counting. So he waited for her to start.
"This his how we start, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. You could count higher but we will start simple." Now she was holding up some cards for him to count. "So how many cards am I holding up,"
Looking at the cards and pointing to each of them." You have three," he answered.
"Thats right,"
Going back and forth for his mother holding cards up and Ciaran telling her how many she was holding. After that she gave him homework of coloring in a coloring book with lots of numbers in it and he when straight to coloring it and happy as could be.
