You know what?
Sep. 9th, 2006 06:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
I'm so tired of alphabet blocks and books and whatnot that look around for a word beginning with "x" and end up resorting to xylophone or x-ray.
Xylophones and x-rays are all well and good, I suppose, but using those images does nothing to teach children the normal sound of the letter "x", does it? Of course not!
Dr. Seuss' version was much better. "X is very useful is your name is Nixie Knox. It also comes in handy spelling ax and extra fox!"
(Of course, in an ideal world we wouldn't have the letter "x" because it can be more effectively written as two letters. In an ideal world, the same fate would await "q" (kw), and we would have letters for sounds such as "sh" and "th". In an ideal world, I'd get full permission to redo our alphabet.)
*sighs*
Having decided I was going to do more with Ana this year, academically, and told her parents that, it is now actually up to me to figure out what's appropriate for her age and then find a way to do it. So far, I've found a host of articles about how preschool is unnecessary (well, I already was saying that - note that unnecessary doesn't mean "bad") but not much that's actually, y'know, useful to me. Something tells me that my google skills need work.
Xylophones and x-rays are all well and good, I suppose, but using those images does nothing to teach children the normal sound of the letter "x", does it? Of course not!
Dr. Seuss' version was much better. "X is very useful is your name is Nixie Knox. It also comes in handy spelling ax and extra fox!"
(Of course, in an ideal world we wouldn't have the letter "x" because it can be more effectively written as two letters. In an ideal world, the same fate would await "q" (kw), and we would have letters for sounds such as "sh" and "th". In an ideal world, I'd get full permission to redo our alphabet.)
*sighs*
Having decided I was going to do more with Ana this year, academically, and told her parents that, it is now actually up to me to figure out what's appropriate for her age and then find a way to do it. So far, I've found a host of articles about how preschool is unnecessary (well, I already was saying that - note that unnecessary doesn't mean "bad") but not much that's actually, y'know, useful to me. Something tells me that my google skills need work.
