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Nov. 5th, 2007
We had another near-spelling experience
Nov. 5th, 2007 07:23 pm
Elise's friend had given her a c-u-p-c-a-k-e today, and she's *finally* caught the point of the whole spelling-things-out-idea (she's been known to carefully work out what we've spelled, only to blurt the word out as soon as she's done), so, as I said, she spelled it.
And we figured out what she meant (she paused between cup and cake, so it took us a second to understand why she didn't want Angelique to know she'd gotten a cup), but Angelique sat there for a second going "Wait... what's a c-a...?". Like we'd tell her!
Maybe Elise doesn't fully understand the concept after all, because she oh-so-helpfully goes "cuh-cuh" to her (well, it's her own secret, she can blow it if she wants)... and Angelique followed with "cuh... CAKE!"
Normally, I'd expect her to think a word starting c-a was candy, because that's what we've been spelling the most around here lately. So I don't know. I just don't know.
And there's no way to know how much she knows, anyway.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elenbarathi made a good point (though I do think she misunderstood my perspective on the speech issue a bit) about testing a kid. I don't know about most kids, but I've already long since discovered that it's folly to test or push Angelique too much, she just gets upset and shuts down. And on the one hand, you go "well, sooner or later she will have to learn to cope", but on the other, much more sensible hand... she's four. She doesn't have to learn to cope now. And if we made too much of the wrong sort of big deal about it now, not only would she become resistant to showing us what she knows, but she'd stop wanting to learn to read at all, and any progress she's made already (and, while I can't say how much she knows, I'm fairly confident it's a lot more than you'd guess!) would be for naught.
This is pretty frustrating for me, but I keep trying. I suspect she's using some esoteric combination of sounding things out with a heaping dose of context, memorization, and lucky guesses... how much of each, I don't know.
Edit: Apparently (and I sorta remember this myself) she didn't say see-ay she said kay - ee. That's either "she didn't hear the entire c-u-p-c-a part" or "my goodness, she was a full ten steps ahead of us in sounding this out!".
And we figured out what she meant (she paused between cup and cake, so it took us a second to understand why she didn't want Angelique to know she'd gotten a cup), but Angelique sat there for a second going "Wait... what's a c-a...?". Like we'd tell her!
Maybe Elise doesn't fully understand the concept after all, because she oh-so-helpfully goes "cuh-cuh" to her (well, it's her own secret, she can blow it if she wants)... and Angelique followed with "cuh... CAKE!"
Normally, I'd expect her to think a word starting c-a was candy, because that's what we've been spelling the most around here lately. So I don't know. I just don't know.
And there's no way to know how much she knows, anyway.
elenbarathi made a good point (though I do think she misunderstood my perspective on the speech issue a bit) about testing a kid. I don't know about most kids, but I've already long since discovered that it's folly to test or push Angelique too much, she just gets upset and shuts down. And on the one hand, you go "well, sooner or later she will have to learn to cope", but on the other, much more sensible hand... she's four. She doesn't have to learn to cope now. And if we made too much of the wrong sort of big deal about it now, not only would she become resistant to showing us what she knows, but she'd stop wanting to learn to read at all, and any progress she's made already (and, while I can't say how much she knows, I'm fairly confident it's a lot more than you'd guess!) would be for naught.This is pretty frustrating for me, but I keep trying. I suspect she's using some esoteric combination of sounding things out with a heaping dose of context, memorization, and lucky guesses... how much of each, I don't know.
Edit: Apparently (and I sorta remember this myself) she didn't say see-ay she said kay - ee. That's either "she didn't hear the entire c-u-p-c-a part" or "my goodness, she was a full ten steps ahead of us in sounding this out!".
Today's haiku
Nov. 5th, 2007 11:53 pmThe creeping worry
Scared even of my own thoughts
Parasitic dread
So, once again I am forced out of my apathy to ask... if parasites often show no symptoms, how do you know? Would it be incredibly embarrassing and weird to just go to the doctor and ask "Hey, check me out for worms because THEY DON'T ALWAYS SHOW SYMPTOMS????" I'd only have to do that one time, right?
Scared even of my own thoughts
Parasitic dread
So, once again I am forced out of my apathy to ask... if parasites often show no symptoms, how do you know? Would it be incredibly embarrassing and weird to just go to the doctor and ask "Hey, check me out for worms because THEY DON'T ALWAYS SHOW SYMPTOMS????" I'd only have to do that one time, right?