Grandfadder

My second group of kids that I see on Mondays are Kindergartners. There are three of them, two boys and a girl, and boy they are darling. Today after we spent some time on our spelling (yes there are two letters in the word ON), we rewarded ourselves with a rousing game of Go Fish (see below blog for more on this exciting game). 

Instead of using legit Go Fish cards, we made it a bit more educational and used speech cards (ah yes, education and yet fun--amazing!). 

Todays words had the TH sound in them. I passed out the cards and we began. 

Student: (Looking puzzled) Hey, do you have an old man?

Other student: An old man?

Me: Wait, "old man" doesn't have the TH sound in it, does it?

Student: No.

Me: So let me see the card. It says Grandfather.

Student: Oh, Grandfadder?

Me: GrandfaTHer. Everyone try that.

We tried that a few times and let's just say that we will need to continue practicing that one this spring...

The next student took his turn. 

Next student: Hey, Ms. S.

Me: Yeah?

Next student: I have a Grandfadder.

Me: (I stiffled a laugh). Oh yeah?

Next student: Yeah. He lives with my Grandmudder.