Winston has learnt the word "BAJS!" (swedish for shit) .. He has really enjoyed shouting it around for the last few days ... very much encouraged by his mum. Also when he wees on the floor or anywhere he says "ISH" and points at the puddle ... i guess ISH is a version of the Swedish word "KISS" which means wee.
He stood on his tiptoes today... his own idea ... i guess he has done this before when reaching for chalk or stuff.. but today he did it for fun with a big smile... so we congratulated him a lot.
He is really loving his books ... he just brings them to me , one after another to read to him. And when he is not bringing books to me, he is bringing magnetic letters to me , mainly his favorite ones E, C, A, W, O, N.
trying to continue the idea of showing him relavant words, rather than just fairly random words, I have taken a phrase from a book "a squash and a squeeze", and written it on the half A4 word cards.. so every time we get to that sentance in the book (about 8 times ), i show him that sentance on the big cards and lay them out on the floor.
I've gone off SPOT and other left the flap books.. all he wants to do is lift the flap.. no interest in the words on the page.
In terms of books for early readers, there really isnt much out there, so homemade versions of his favourite books is the way to go. Even the simple ones seem to run to 100 pages , once you break it down to maximum one sentance per page.
This http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html and www.nagc.org/php_june09web/Interview_files/Interview.pdf are interesting about nurturing creativity .
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