Four Going on Seven

So we've been at Lake Tahoe for the past week, which has been incredible, and I promise to post pictures soon. In the meantime, enjoy this little taste of my never ending wonder at my girls' brilliance.

The scene: Sitting at the table in the morning, playing with some matching cards with P and S. The first set matches opposites, like wet and dry, up and down, etc. The girls put these together with a little help identifying the words that go with the pictures.

The second set of cards is more advanced. These match consonant blends with pictures of things that start with those letters...so, SL matches with a picture of a slide, etc. We complete these with a little help, and then there are a few blends leftover that have lost their picture matches. One is CL and one is TH. To Paige, "what starts with CL? It sounds like CL...". Paige: "Clarence"!!!!

Clarence is one of the siblings she attended the sibling program with at JTC. She pulled both the sound and the memory out of her brain to make the correct association. (side note: Pam thought she said "clearance" and immediately declared a desire to go back to school to keep up with her granddaughters)

To Skylar: "what starts with TH? It sounds like TH..." Remember, this is one of the hardest sounds for Skylar to hear and discriminate. Words like "there" usually come out with a d sound (dare) and words like "thing" come out with a t sound (ting) or p (someping).

Her word? "thumb!". Showing me a thumbs up. Almost immediately. Is she really hearing the TH clearly enough to produce it correctly? Or is she reading it? Seeing the letters TH and knowing they start words like thumb that sound different than t or p?

I gotta get these girls reading.