Writing with pictures

Today, Lucy started her sight words work.  As Zoe learned to read, we took the all-phonics approach, but those pesky words you can't sound out kept haunting us.  This curriculum is a great supplement, and Lucy loves her new ring of words and is already comfortable with I, me, the, and and.  I think it all comes out in the end no matter which approach you choose, but my struggle with her is finding stuff that she likes that is at her level, and right now, this fits the bill.

Stamping each new sight word with a different color

I love this!  It's a very simple story that Zoe can read to Lucy.  

Then, Zoe helps Lucy find her "special words" and circle them.

Today, we also learned about the first writing from the Egyptians and Sumerians.  We looked at some samples of hieroglyphics and made some of our own from clay.  We decided we were thankful for paper since it was so much work!  But we also learned that things written on clay last much longer than those written on paper.  We made our name, a picture of a bird, and Cleopatra's skirt on our tablets.