Yesterday when I organized their games, I pulled out some things they had not seen for a long time including a big bucket full of plastic and foam letters. They spent a lot of time playing with them today- stacking them in piles, spreading them all over the table, pretending they were pancakes and trying to spell words. At one point, E asked me how to spell "whispers," and after she was done putting all the letters together she tried to sound it out. She insisted that the R and the S on the end needed to be reversed. We went back and forth for a few minutes- in a relaxed, playful way, not arguing- and then I let it go. She was wrong of course, but that's not important right now. She was really working through sounding out the letters and trying to place them the way she was hearing them. That's an important part of learning to read! L was having fun naming the letter and number "pancakes." ("I want a S pancake! Now a blue one!")
Pulling out the games was one more step in the most recent ebb (or flow?) of this ebbing and flowing life. For the last few weeks, we've been settling in to new routines for the winter. The girls had been taking dance and gymnastics classes, but since we are without a car, it is now to cold to walk. All summer they played outside in our yard for hours every day, but now they stay inside more. So I've been working on finding more indoor things to do. Now that the games are organized I can see clearly what we need to get for Hanukkah gifts. I'm also going to get them some art supplies and E might be getting a trampoline for her birthday. I went searching for online games for them to play and found this list of the Top 10. Ignore the intro- it's a totally mainstream "get your kid to learn by making it fun!" kind of thing. Maybe I'll post reviews of the games once the girls start playing them more
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