Whatever happened to Dick and Jane?

The Princess started in Junior Kindergarten this year. Thanks to an incredibly wonderful preschool she already knew all of her letters by sight, and most of their sounds. Her JK teacher is great. She's young and very enthusiastic, and is taking the kids through the Jolly Phonics program. For those of you uninitiated into the joys of the jolly world, it is a program from England that teaches the 42 most common sounds in the English language by telling a little story and adding an action for each sound to help the kids remember it. S, for instance, is sssss for Sammy the Snake, and involves some wriggling arm movements. N, is nnnnnn for nosedive and the kids hold their arms aloft like airplanes soaring through the air. Reading has never been so dangerous.

The princess loves this stuff, and we spend a lot of time in our house sounding out words on boxes, asking what is the first sound in baby? In cookie? In dog? And so on. And on. And on. She is also very interested in trying to write letters and words. Over and over, we write out letters for her to trace and copy.

So, as Hubs and I were doing a bit of planning for a dinner party we're having Saturday night, the Princess came along with a pad and pen and offered to make us a list. She did her usual scribbled list, and then asked us for some words to trace and copy. I left Hubs to it and went to putter in the kitchen.

And that is how I came to find the following sitting on the coffee table, all ready for Friday's shopping trip:

Beer and Lemons. This is SO going in the scrapbook!

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And, talking about Rainbow Days, I found links to my little blog on TWO of the fabulous blogs I like to read regularly! So let's all go and tell Karen and Jennifer that they're talented and pretty!

Thanks for making my day.

OH - and Blogger tried it's little trick of deleting all the spaces between my paragraphs again. Thanks Veronica for your tip about the <>! I bow to you, Queen of Blogginess!