So for a good deal of the time moms may wonder if this is all going to work out; am I doing anything right at all? And then there are those moments that mom just goes 'aaaaahhhh.' So Nice. I had one recently that I don't want to forget- so I must share it here. That day I was quizzing Lillian on the 26 single letter phonograms. [you know, the letters] I say the letters by sound- so A is a/A/ah -giving all three of it sounds, and B is just buh without the uh. She did not learn them in alphabetical order but rather by the way you write them in cursive; so clock face or circle letters first for example. She does know the ABC song, but I have purposely not connected it. This day though, I gave the quiz in alphabetical order and afterward I asked her if she knew what that meant. We sang the song. I explained what it meant and I said the order is very useful. We can organize our words in this order and then be able to find them easily. I pulled out the huge 1828 dictionary and started to show her. She was so mesmerized by this book! We spent quite a bit of time just looking up random words, or flipping through it. 'spelling time' easily lasted longer than usual. Then she proceeded to carry the book upstairs and around the house for a couple of days to look through it. I was happy twice. Because not only was it so cute, it was nostalgic for me. See, her oldest sister loved to read the dictionary, so it reminded me of that too. The first photo is during the real event of first explaining a dictionary. The second one I had her pose for this post so you can see the scale of her carrying such a large heavy book.
So for a good deal of the time moms may wonder if this is all going to work out; am I doing anything right at all? And then there are those moments that mom just goes 'aaaaahhhh.' So Nice. I had one recently that I don't want to forget- so I must share it here. That day I was quizzing Lillian on the 26 single letter phonograms. [you know, the letters] I say the letters by sound- so A is a/A/ah -giving all three of it sounds, and B is just buh without the uh. She did not learn them in alphabetical order but rather by the way you write them in cursive; so clock face or circle letters first for example. She does know the ABC song, but I have purposely not connected it. This day though, I gave the quiz in alphabetical order and afterward I asked her if she knew what that meant. We sang the song. I explained what it meant and I said the order is very useful. We can organize our words in this order and then be able to find them easily. I pulled out the huge 1828 dictionary and started to show her. She was so mesmerized by this book! We spent quite a bit of time just looking up random words, or flipping through it. 'spelling time' easily lasted longer than usual. Then she proceeded to carry the book upstairs and around the house for a couple of days to look through it. I was happy twice. Because not only was it so cute, it was nostalgic for me. See, her oldest sister loved to read the dictionary, so it reminded me of that too. The first photo is during the real event of first explaining a dictionary. The second one I had her pose for this post so you can see the scale of her carrying such a large heavy book. 
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