Guffaw:
Almost every time we are together we play some sort of game. We began when you were an infant,
saying your alphabet with a word associated with each letter as I carried you to and from the "ABC Park"
(your nickname for Mile Square Park). I especially liked when we got to "L" since you would say "love" and
give me a hug. Many of our games are word play. Among the games we play are:
- the "opposites" game, where I say a word and you say its opposite,
- the "rhyming" game where I would say a word and then we would come up with as many words as we could that rhymed with that word,
- "I spy," where you would see something and I would try to guess what you saw,
- "I see," where we would identify things we saw, avoiding saying we saw the same thing twice, and
- the "homonym" game where I would say a word and you would come up with a word that sounded the same but had a different meaning.
I commented on that fact and that other words also have words hidden in them. I said that it could be a fun
game if I were to write some words down and let you look for the hidden words in them. You thought that
sounded like fun so I started writing some down as we walked to school. I left them on your desk at our house and
you did your first hidden words search, which is shown below. You are pretty clever, especially for a five-year old with
barely more than two months of kindergarten!
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