WRITING: More fun writing-spelling tricks.

Now he'd revised his alphabet, O has been practicing to write words down, as he hears them.  It's not easy for him, as he struggles with very first sound , generally, though after the first sound in the word it gets easier for him and the last one he almost always gets right the first time. 

Anyway, last time we did a bit of this 'Lego words' activity ( in on of the recent posts) he really enjoyed it, and has been asking about 'fun writing'. So I'd looked up on Pinterest and made some ' Spinning Plate' words.  

Although O is not as taken by this particular activity as I was hoping he would, he does like it, as it's much easier for him than writing by hearing and he likes how quickly he can 'tick the words off' and finish. 

Curiously, he's not been very keen on writing the words that 'are not real' even though I said that it was perfectly fine to write them too, as they count as one of his words on the list.  Perhaps it does make  perfect sense that  he places greater value on 'real' words, whatever I tell him, then again.  

Another benefit of this activity for O, is that he has to figure out,  that though the words like 'Pat' are real, he needs to  remember to use a capital letter, and then remember NOT to use it with the rest of the words! 

He also learned real words like 'VAT' ( boring grown up words) and , importantly, that KAT is not a real word, never mind how it sounds, while CAT is!  

It's easy to change the plates around , and I think this is a great little learning tool!