Sight/Heart Words

At Tyler's teacher conference a few weeks back and we were given the list of sight/heart words they are supposed to know this year. These are the words they are just supposed to know by sight without having to sound them out. It was a bit of a project cutting them all out and putting them on flash cards.

By the end we had quite a stack. Some are duplicates so they get used to seeing the word starting with a capital and a lower case but there is still a good number of words. We have some different games we can play to help Tyler learn and reinforce the words. Tyler really has come a long way since the beginning of the year and I'm very proud of him. But we still have plenty of work to do. It is however fun to watch his confidence grow.

Hailey, the whiz, looked at the stack as I was putting it together. She flipped through and said every single word without hesitation (no sounding out at all). Fortunately, Tyler wasn't watching at the time. I'm not sure how we are going to keep her challenged in reading when she gets to Kindergarten.