Tonight John suggested we break out the Scrabble board and play a 'real' game with Katie. Usually we just let her put the tiles in any order any where on the board, but as she's getting older and wants to spell more words we thought that we should teach her the rules. It was rocky at first, and her attention span got tested towards the end, but she played a wonderful game.
She even beat the pants off John and I. Of course we were both helping her spell words and find spaces on the board...that's why our own scores suffered. (At least that's my story.) Katie added a new element to the game too - she was like a timer...you had 45 seconds to make your word otherwise the timer would explode into an antsy 4 year old tantrum.
After we got done I took a picture of the board as proof that we did finish the game. When we were picking up the pieces, John was reading the box and discovered that Katie's score of 166 was very close to their estimation of an 'expert's' score of 180. Geesh...that's all we need.
The Scrabble championEarlier tonight while I was getting supper ready, I taped a big piece of paper that John had brought home from work for the kids to draw on. They did a GREAT job - both of them. This easily entertained them for 45 minutes or more. They each had specific areas to work on and pretty much stuck to their own sides. Will got messy, but hey, it'll wash off. He really pays attention to how Katie does things and really tries to imitate her.
"So that's how I'm supposed to do it."
5 comments:
This should give John a little insight into the position of second child... from the parents' point of view.
Mary
Way to on your Scrabble game Katie, that is impressive! I don't honestly think I have ever won that game :).
Love, Jamie
P.S. Noah says hello as well to Kaykee!
that's so awesome. Scrabble is such a great learning game, not to mention addicting!
Who needs an egg timer when u have a little one. :)
that's a great timer, alright! how cute! what a great time!
Megan
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