Last night, Emma and I played a very fun game for the better part of an hour. We had found the magnetic words I made for her, and I decided to show her a game.
The words are all scattered on the back of a metal tray, so I pushed them all over to my side of the board. I picked one word and held it up or put it in the middle. If she knew what it said, she could “steal” it from me.
If she didn’t know the word, on her own she tried to sound them out. She would look up at me to see if it was right or if she wanted help. I gave her a bit of instruction on blending sounds and stopping to say each letter sound from left to right. Interestingly enough, she knows the phonetic sound of almost every letter. She has been realizing that some letters (namely vowels) have more than one sound.
Other words, especially the names of family members, she already knew by sight. One of the words she quickly recognized was “love”.
Partway through the game, I could tell she had enough of sounding out words or guessing, and she had also realized that if she got close enough, I was giving her the word anyway. So she called me on it. Near the end, she would look at a word and say, “Um… you can have that one,” then grin at me.
She was still in the lead.
On a purely observational note, she spent quite a bit of time putting the family member’s names “in order”. The order that made sense to her, or one that perhaps she has observed herself, was by age.
Daddy, Mommy, Addison, Sarah, Meaghan, Emma.
Later, I showed her how to move our names around in order by height of the person. Unfortunately that left me further down the list.
Addison, Daddy, Sarah, Mommy, Meaghan, Emma.
After that, it was my turn to read the words to steal them back. I would sometimes pretend to not know the word, or say some word that was completely not it, like “elephant”. She thought this was marvelous fun.
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