Posts tagged: Learning

Our youngest is six and deep in the phase where letters are magic. She fills pages with experiments: her name, words she’s sounded out, invented spellings that are almost right and somehow more charming for it. Reading is clicking into place in real time and it’s one of those things you can’t quite believe you’re watching.

We started doing word search puzzles together. She loves the hunt, scanning rows and circling letters the moment something clicks. Simple grids, short words, themes she picks herself (animals, food, family names). We got through the store-bought ones fast enough that it became clear we needed a way to make our own.