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A game making story from the #landofcute
Some of you may know that I am homeschooling Marcus. Today we were doing a lesson from my favorite book “Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons” when Marcus started asking me how to spell things totally unrelated to our lesson. I soon realized that he was feeling pretty determined to take over today’s class, so, I said “what should we do?”
“I know. Let’s play eye spy with something in this room. So, for instance, for the carpet I would say “I spy with my little eye something that begins with c-a, and then you have to guess what it is and then we spell it.” We were at it for 35 minutes totally engaged. He and I are just amazed at how silly English can be. Words like light are the silliest, what is up Mommy with”ight”? He also did a tiny drawing of each word he learned. This is what he learned to spell today.
Bat Man
Light bulb
Heater
Mother
Towel
Phone
Carpet
Bed
Paper
Boxes
Feeling kind of awed. Now he is making Lego droids. Gary and Bill Nye the Science guy are going to introduce Marcus to nutrition today for science class.