Five words I predict I will hear a lot during the year.
School is not only quenching Isabelle's thirst for knowledge but also expanding it.
She can be found with her nose in a book, finding words she has learnt at school.
As part of her homework, Issy has a booklet of sight words, words that for different reasons the kids need to learn by sight rather than sounding out. There are 25 words to a booklet and Issy completed the booklet on Thursday night.
To help Issy learn these words, I made up some super quick flash cards on some pink paper so we could play games to help her learn the words by recognsing them, rather than just learn the pattern of the words in the list.
Monday will see a new booklet with new sight words make it's way home in the homework folder and rather than just let those first 25 words get left behind, I stuck them up on a wall in my bedroom so she can still see and practice them.
This afternoon we read each sight word, found sentences we could make using the sight words, and played teachers by getting 'the student' (we took turns in each role) to find the word we said.
Playing teachers moved into playing Harry Potter where I was Professor Dumbledore and Isabelle was Hermione Granger.
Hermonie's school work was a secret, and Dumbledore was not allowed to peek at what she was doing, which was making her own flash cards of the 25 words to be marked by Dumbledore.
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