Comments on: Phonics Lessons

By: The Pinterested Parent

The Pinterested Parent — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 23:38:06 +0000

In reply to neilirving. My daughter is a chatterbox as well. We read to her a lot and my husband also takes to reading her strange book choices for her age, but she has hundreds of books and we have been through them all.

By: neilirving

neilirving — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 16:37:51 +0000

How cute, both my kids where fractious baby’s and I used to read to them all the time generally what ever I was reading at the time lol used to get funny looks reading them The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson or Frank Herbert’s Dune, I like to think that’s why they they won’t shut up now

By: go Mama O

go Mama O — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:46:08 +0000

In reply to The Pinterested Parent. My parents had Boggle Jr. at their house from when I was a kid, and I thought my 4.5 yr old and almost 3 yr old wouldn’t like it, but they do.

By: Janine Huldie

Janine Huldie — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:51:38 +0000

In reply to The Pinterested Parent. I know and same here. I really loved writing in cursive and still do.

By: The Pinterested Parent

The Pinterested Parent — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:44:54 +0000

In reply to Janine Huldie. How strange. They have changed so much from when we were children. I am still getting over no more cursive.

By: The Pinterested Parent

The Pinterested Parent — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:40:42 +0000

In reply to go Mama O. It is wonderful. I hope that our kids continue this lust for learning as they grow. I will have to look at Boggle Jr.

By: Janine Huldie

Janine Huldie — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:18:07 +0000

In reply to The Pinterested Parent. Common core (federal government school curriculum) dictates they just know the letters and sounds. Seriously, insane and I am so not a fan of this way of learning at all.

By: go Mama O

go Mama O — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:14:54 +0000

So cute! She really knows her letters and a lot of words! I try to keep learning fun for my kids too. Recently they enjoyed playing Boggle Jr. where they have to match letters to the word / picture on the card. Hooray for educational games that kids like!

By: The Pinterested Parent

The Pinterested Parent — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:06:15 +0000

In reply to Janine Huldie. That is so strange, Janine. How can sounding out your letters and being able to associate them with the correct words not be a part of phonetics? Ugh! Could she explain to you why? That is frustrating for sure.

By: Janine Huldie

Janine Huldie — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 11:58:03 +0000

So very cute and I have to tell you that my almost 5 year old was just tested at pre-school for her phonetic sounds and was told she didn’t always know the sound of some letters. I was puzzled, because like Mai, she can tell me words and wish letter they start with. When I told her teacher this, she told me that they just tested for the letter and sound and words weren’t a part of this or phonetics. I seriously had an issue with this and just was so happy to read your post, because knowing the actual word that starts with a letter is definitely phonetics to me, too and both my husband and I told the teacher this and needless to say, Lily is now going to a different pre-school, because I had this issue and a few more that I didn’t want to have this same teacher next year. I will hopefully be sharing more on my blog soon, but huge thank you for sharing this today 🙂