Today was The Day Of The X Box (TM). For one day only constant Xboxing was allowed. So that’s pretty much what we did.
So Davies and I learnt how to use the controls – at length. We alternated between W&G Project Zoo and W&G curse of the were-rabbit with me desperately craving something without the words ‘cracking’ anywhere in the dialogue – but not desperate enough for Halo mind you 😉
Tarly and I looked at books for a while, I got out the Bob books but although she knew all the sounds for the first one (m, a, t and s) she couldn’t get her head round stringing them together at all. Slightly torn as to how to proceed with her on this really. I’ve happily accepted autonomy for Davies and reading – he knows all the letters and the sounds and knows how to blend them to make words, so aslong as a word if phonetic he is fine and he is gradually recognising more and more words by sight anyway. But Tarly is still right at the beginning and she just wants ‘to read’ by the quickest and most painless method I can offer. Erm…. I so don’t want to miss the boat or fail her here but at the same time I want to offer what works for her. Watch this space!
We listened to the jets and other noisy aircraft coming in to the local airport in preparation for tomorrows RAF annual airshow. We have gone along for the last two years but this year finances, my own honesty that actually I have little or no interest in WW2 aircraft and the children not being remotely bothered about going means we won’t be attending. I’ve told Ady to go on his own as it is so his ‘thing’ so depending on the weather I might push him a bit more tomorrow.
When Ady got home I went on another of my hour long walks, this time taking in the hall where the party was and posting the keys and payment back through the letterbox. I very foolishly wore flipflops so I now probably qualify for invalid status with the sore bits on the bottom of my feet, but hey, I’m getting fitter! 😆
And that would be about it for now.
Flashcards – ones with pictures on one side and words on the other. I think i might even have some and as this is the weekend of the “find the things you’ve promised to people” i will happily hunt for them and send them if i haven’t altready freecycled them!
I’ll second the cards idea! And remember…. at precicely the point you despair of her ever mastering phonics and resign yourself to beign a “bad mama” and doing whole words with her she will magically start blending sounds 😉
We have a poster each here, (this was the girls idea) and everytime the recognise a word it gets written on a ‘cloud’ and stuck to their poster (which they drew as a picture of themselves) although apparently Rei’s are not clouds they are Think Bubbles. I was told off when I called it a cloud. We don’t do phonica of whole words, we kinda do a mixture of the two depending on how the wind is blowing. Rei all of a sudden now seems to have clicked at the sounding things out to make up the word though, whereas Eve seems to recognise whole words by sight instead.