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One Week Later...

"So this word is cat" I say pointing to the word I wrote in the dirt and then I sound out the word so they know what each letter sounds like

I already taught them the whole alphabet and the sound of each letter in the week I have been here. There have been no experiments yet, but Bea told me after Lily went to sleep one night that they usually don't do experiments on anyone for the first week that someone new is there. She told me there have been 5 other kids here in the last two years they have been here. They have all died. I hope I don't die in here I want to go back and see Lucy Gray. I am going to get out of here no matter what

"Briar Rose, can you teach me how to spell my name?" Lily asks

"Sure!" I say to Lily

I use my finger and I write down L-i-l-y on the dirt floor

"Can you tell me what each letter is?" I ask Lily

"L-i-l-y" Lily says

"Good job" i say to Lily with a smile

"I've memorized a book i have read many times. I'll write it down and you two can switch off sentences since you know all the letter sounds. If you need any help just ask me" i say to them both

"Ok!" Lily says

"Bea will do the first sentence and then switch off from there" i say as i write the first paragraph of Alice in Wonderland on the dirt

"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank" Bea reads with not a lot of stopping

When Lily goes to bed i teach Bea a little extra since she wants to start reading as soon as possible

"And of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading." Lily reads stopping on every word to sound it out

That is a pretty hard sentence. It has a couple of longer words in the sentence

"Nice job Lils" i say to Lily

She smiles a bit looking proud of herself for reading the sentence

"But it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice "without pictures or conversations?"" Bea reads out loud. She gets stuck on the word 'conversation' but that is a hard word to read and she had to ask for help and i gladly helped her with it

"So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid)" Lily reads aloud. She gets stuck on the word 'considering' and 'sleepy,' i help her out with those two words before we move on to the next sentence

"Whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her." Bea reads the sentence perfectly not even stuttering over one word. She is learning super quick which is nice

"There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!"" Lily says sounding out words that i haven't taught her yet. Her sounding out has gotten way better over the past couple of days and she usually doesn't need help with words at all

"(when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural)" Bea reads aloud

"but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on" Lily gets stuck on the word 'waistcoat' it's a hard word and i help her sound it out and then we say the word together