Early penmanship
Jul. 22nd, 2008 11:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miekec(written a few months ago, but apparently never posted)
In helping Karin develop her reading and writing skills, tonight's dinner entertainment had an, um, interesting selection of tools and books. She started off with sounding out and writing some words -- on the back of one-side-used printer paper. Granted, most of the words were her own inventions, letters backwards and sometimes it was hard to tell which way was up. Still, she was very enthusiastic, and worked hard. We remembered the writing booklet with the traditional "dotted-line in between two solid lines", and pre-drawn letters. Nope, nowhere in the pile where it was last spotted.
But fear not! John to the rescue! He pulled out a different educational book, with a nice alphabet drawing on the front.
They read it front to back, with lots of "Noooo!"s, "Ew"s and giggles.
"A is for Amy who fell down the stairs. B is for Basil assaulted by bears.C is for Clara who wasted away. D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh..."
In helping Karin develop her reading and writing skills, tonight's dinner entertainment had an, um, interesting selection of tools and books. She started off with sounding out and writing some words -- on the back of one-side-used printer paper. Granted, most of the words were her own inventions, letters backwards and sometimes it was hard to tell which way was up. Still, she was very enthusiastic, and worked hard. We remembered the writing booklet with the traditional "dotted-line in between two solid lines", and pre-drawn letters. Nope, nowhere in the pile where it was last spotted.
But fear not! John to the rescue! He pulled out a different educational book, with a nice alphabet drawing on the front.
They read it front to back, with lots of "Noooo!"s, "Ew"s and giggles.
"A is for Amy who fell down the stairs. B is for Basil assaulted by bears.C is for Clara who wasted away. D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh..."
