Categories: family
Date: 21 November 2008 10:56:47
So spoke my niece tonight. Interesting, to me, how she must see her name and how any additions make it no longer her name.
I was looking up an address in Google Maps. I had it on my screen and she walked in, fresh from an evening of games, reading and playing blocks [I'd left her, and her parents, watching CBeebies [Oz edition], but she wanted to talk to me], and said, "That are a lot of maps." Neglecting my inner pedant :) , I said, "Do you want to see your house?" and keyed in her address and looked at the Google Street View. She of course wanted it printed to show mummy and daddy.
Afterwards, I asked if she wanted to write "Skye's House" under it. She said yes, as long as I told her the letters for "house" -- she can write her own name. After writing S-K-Y-E, I told her to write another S and then draw a line between up top between the E and the S which is called an apostrophe [perhaps my pedantry will be passed on]. I then spelled "house" for her, which she wrote, replacing the "u" with a "w", but apart from that it was all fine. She then said, "But I want to write my name."
I told her her name was there. She did not believe me. I covered the apostrophe-S; she still did not believe me. So she wrote S-K-Y-E three more times, and then, happy her name was there, she gave it to me to "show your friends at work". When leaving, however, she decided she wanted it more so she took it home; I'll try and get another one when she next visits.
As I wrote at the beginning, it was an interesting reaction to me. I can easily see "Skye's" contains "Skye"; she, apparently, could not. Fascinating seeing language learning and language concepts in action in those of a young age.