Sight Words

A's kindergarten teachers send home lists of "sight words" for the children to learn. I blame the French for sight words, since they usually have "gh" or "au" or "kn" in them. Since A already knew the words

• who
• what
• where
• why
• how

we made up the following list:

• sweet
• loving
• kind
• respectful
• peaceful
• calm
• healing
• what
• obedient
• flypaper

But he could read all of those, too.

So the next night, M made a harder list. A only got the following words:

• compost
• sneeze
• cough
• forgotten
• supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

We think he would have gotten "tombstone," but he was tired.

[Update: this morning, A re-discovered the Gettysburg Address. Which he read to me. Then he asked for some paper. "I'm going to copy it down and read it to my class!" So far "that from these honored" is as far as he's gotten....]