For some time Aurora has known all her letters. Over the fall she has mastered the
phonics, more or less anyway. She
knows the sound the letters make.
Reproducing them occasionally has glitches. But I tell you; the day she calls our cat Clark instead of Park and says Adeline
instead of Ad-E-Lion will be a bittersweet
day for me indeed.
Knowing her letters and their sounds, it seems to me the
next place to develop our reading skills are words and sentences. To this end we play lots of games such
as sticker words. I pencil in a word on her notebook. We read the word together. While making its sound, she places the appropriate sticker
on each letter. Then she reads the
word.
Today’s sentence was inspired by our cats wrestling around
like the two teenage boys they are.
Heavy with their thick winter weight they sound like two rhinoceroses.
Sometimes we have fun writing two or even three sentences at a sitting, but when Aurora becomes a parrot: “What word is this, Aurora?” “What word is that, Mommy?” or starts reading by staring out the window “Um…dog?” I know it is time to wrap things up and we move to illustrating our book.
