Dead Man Walking, Sound Spelling and Rodents · Mar 1, 01:31

So we went out to dinner tonight, and since Champe is crazy into games, I decided to teach him hangman to buy time while we waited for food.

(Meanwhile Todd whispered, “Jeez, thanks for introducing him to that concept.” – referring to the name of the game. Good point, so I just focus on drawing body parts and sort of minimize the whole “noose” thing.)

So I did G-O-A-T first, knowing he would recognize it because 3 baby goats were just born at his amazing school and they’ve been doing literacy work with goats, things to do with goats, names for baby goats, etc. And he got it fairly quickly.

Next, he wanted to do one. It had three blanks and turned out to be C-A-T. Pretty good.

We did a couple rounds and when it was Champe’s turn again, he drew:

___ ___ ___ ___

After a few guesses, we had:

S ___ A ___

Then Todd guessed “O.” Champe thought for a minute and then asked, “Does “wuh, wuh” have an O in it?”

So, we guessed “W” next ‘cause we’re no dummies.

Then it was:

S W A ___

So I said, “Hmmm, it starts with swa or sway ….”

And Champe said, “Silly Mom. The “S” is the end part. It starts over HERE.” (pointing to the end everywhere but Japan.)

Ok, so this is normal for a 5 year old leftie. We keep guessing.

Turns out the missing letter is “M.”

S W A M

And the word? I can’t believe you’re even asking me. It’s so obvious. The word was “Mouse.”

Gosh, I love that kid.

— LCM

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Comment

  1. Oh yeah, he’s a lefty all right. Ming used to have days when she’d write whole paragraphs right-to-left, all words reversed. We were just happy it went top-to-bottom. This skill really pays off if you want to do mirror writing! Go, Champe!

    — Claire · Mar 01, 06:25 AM · #

  2. Yes! He can do the same thing. If I didn’t know HWT so well, I might worry, but I know better.

    — LCM · Mar 01, 07:26 AM · #

  3. That’s funny. From time to time, Aiden will write his name backwards NEDIA...he even turns around the letters so it becomes a mirror image.

    — Laila · Mar 12, 01:10 PM · #

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