This is what we're into this week!
As a means of distracting them one day & averting a major melt down/stopping a fight, I pointed out the car in front of us had a Ford logo. They only recognize a few logos so far, McDonald's for example. So they understood what a logo was and were instantly fascinated to learn another one. Soon they were asking about every car we passed or that was in front of us. As we drive by car dealerships they'll holler out "FORD!" "HONDA!" etc
Honey was checking out the differences between Hyndai & Honda logos and I explained that the "H" in Honda was straight but the one in Hyndai was slanted/crooked. Well! She didn't want anything to do with sloppy crooked logos! When she grows up she's having a purple Honda and nothing but!
Lovey is in love with Ford. She has learned to spell it and recognizes it a mile away. Her dream car is a hot pink Ford.
Sweetie, as usual, is not committing/limiting herself to anything and is keeping her options open at this time.
And the other fascination this week is about words that sound the same but mean different, are opposites or have similar meanings. Sweetie started it off by asking why two words sounded the same to her but meant different things. So I explained about homonyms. That was several weeks ago. Then a couple weeks ago, she ran into the kitchen saying "Mumma! what's that thing called where the words are the same but mean different things?" Stunned that she'd even remembered that brief conversation, I said "ummm homonyms????" She nodded her head quickly and said "oh yeah! homonyms!" and then zipped off to go back to whatever she'd been doing when this burning question came to her.
She has been giving this quite a bit of thought and has been coming up with many more. She'll burst out at random times with "Mumma! I just thought of another homonym!" You'd think she'd just found treasure, she's so pleased with her find. The other night she came up to me with another discovery, "pauper like a poor person and popper like the toy we have!" It's interesting and proud mum that I am, just a little impressive to see her come up with these! Since she'd grasped that concept so well, I also explained about synonyms and antonyms. They're having a bit of trouble keeping the categories straight but it's a good game to play in the car to keep them thinking and not fighting!
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