Spelling Fun

My daughter has now started to read CVCs (consonant-vowel-consonant words such as car, pan, bat) and my little boy can already recognize most of the letters of the alphabet and has quite a rich vocabulary for his age. Modesty aside, I am really proud of how fast their development is.

Aside from avoiding baby talk and encouraging meaningful conversations, my husband and I stimulate their language development by reading with them everyday.  Our toddlers won’t learn much after all if we just leave them with the books to browse.  If we do that, we just might come back to a roomful of torn pages. ^_^

We also provide our toddlers educational materials such as puzzles and vocabulary builders.  Among their favorites is the Vtech Write & Learn Letter Pad and a couple of Joytoy Puzzles. Together with worksheets and books, we use these during our Thursday Talkies.

One of the puzzles that we love to use is Joytoy Spelling Fun which was given as a gift on Jade’s second birthday. The box contains 16 picture puzzles each forming a three letter word.  The puzzles are self-correcting ones so it’s impossible to put together pieces that belong to different words.  The pictures are colorful and very appealing to young children.  I checked the price in a local bookstore and found that it costs only around a 100 pesos.  There is also another set that contains 4-letter-words.  We will be getting one for Jade soon.

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Since Jade already knows all the letter sounds, we have been using these to help her build more words to read.  To challenge her skills even more, I give her a set of three or more words and scatter the puzzle pieces.  She is then to determine which puzzle pieces go together and put them together.  After doing so, we go over the words and read them together.

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Jakei can already recognize most letters and can also determine which puzzle pieces go together.  He has just recently been able to put three puzzle pieces together all on his own.  Lately, I have been hearing less of “I can’t!” and more of “There! Ta-da!” from my little boy.

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