Mark My Words

On this snowy day, Pop-Pop sent out some trivia questions for everyone to enjoy.  One of them that I thought the children could tackle was this:

There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?

We had some pretty good answers.  But we also had some outliers, like “division” and “decimal point”.  So I explained to the children that punctuation marks are “the kind of marks that you find in a story”.  Robyn’s next guess?  “Book marks!”

Semper Reformandum

Version 1: Joseph

Version 2 (thanks to Henry): Dovis

Version 3 (thanks to Hazel): Doe-doe-ziss

PoTAYto, PoTAHto

Some people pronounce “vegetables” with four syllables like this: veg-it-uh-bulls

Some people pronounce it with three, like this: veg-tuh-bulls

Henry pronounces it with two, like this: vetch-bowls

Dovis Photo Shoot

Joseph slept for a long time last night, woke up and ate breakfast like a champ and then was sweet, peaceful and awake for quite some time.  That, plus the addition of a lovely new knitted blanket just cried out for some picture-taking!





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