Bairno (4 yo) has just recently mastered the /th/ sound. Until just this past Saturday all /th/s were /f/s. Earlier this summer we said goodbye to ch being /sh/ and I thought I was going to cry because so many of my sweet Bairno-isms are disappearing and marking the days of his growth and leaving our babyhood days behind. I will greatly miss one of my favorite sentences of his: We’re going to eat Sheeto sheese ships at shurch. Translation: We’re going to eat Cheeto Cheese Chips at church.
Kindergarten: he's 4 and been reading for two years, but he has only started wanting to write.
Today he is doing math work instead of the beloved “mafs” work. I much prefer doing mafs work; it is simply more fun.
Although, today I am having much fun with the 4 yo who just learned to “master” the /th/ sound instead of saying /f/. Why is this fun? Because today he is learning about ordinal numbers!
What was once one, two, free (3), four, …, twelve, firteen (13), firteen (14, yes it sounds the same as the previous number), fifteen is now one, two thththtree (hold out that /th/ sound to get it right), fffour, … twelve, thththirteen, fffourteen, fffifffteen.
So today our ordinal numbers are much spitilated (what? that word is in my dictionary; is it not in yours?) fffun: fffirst, second, thththird, fffourththth, fffifffththth, sixththth, sevenththth, eigththth, ninththth, tenththth. The most fffun is fffifffththth!
counting
DOINK!
Wisdom from Flyntster (7 years old). Translation: what he learned today.
1. Do not eat green potato chips.
2. If I save science until after everything I have something to look forward to and I get my writing done faster.
Lessons not yet learned:
Bairno: I still do not understand why I have to wear pants to do school work; we home school.
we make messes, big messes
DOINK!
Random quotes:
Moggie: Wait! X and Y are the same thing!
Iaindescribable: Hieroglyphs are sounds, not letters.
Birdie: Well, actually they are pictures.
Okay, so…. I have not been in a huge hurry to “correct” Little Man’s lisp. I know that if he concentrates, he doesn’t lisp…but it’s SO cute, and he’s my BABY! Sigh…I guess I need to set a goal to correct him more often.
Question, do you “de-spine” your kiddo’s workbooks????
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I have not been in a big hurry to correct the “baby” words with any of my children, but the /f/ thing was making him sound more and more like he was from London. It really is about the only thing that has not seemed to get better on its own over time. The fact that he will be five in late November had me thinking I needed to help the proper /th/ along. Since all of my other kiddos have self-corrected certain sounds by five, or at least made natural progressions by five, I was a bit worried his might become a bad habit harder to break later. I am going to miss it. But right now I absolutely love how happy he is to be getting the /th/ sound even if it means sticking his tongue way out and spitting a bit when he does it (need to get this on video).
De-spining books…hmm maybe I should write a post about that because I am curious what other do and how they handle multitudes of workbooks/papers that start out scattered. What say you? Let’s both write something up and I’ll do a linky. Up for it? It might be a good one for the beginning of the school year idea sharing.
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