First of all, MANY thanks to the ladies who were kind enough to help me battle last week’s dilemma! We haven’t been home long enough to try out each of the suggestions, but I’m excited that within the next 48 hours, I will have a SOLUTION!

I can’t take credit for this; a friend-in-law (you know, the spouse of hubby’s friend) taught me this and it’s been PRICELESS!

To teach her daughter to spell her name, she used the Bingo song: “K-E-L-L-Y, K-E-L-L-Y, K-E-L-L-Y and Kelly is her name-o”

We quickly learned that this was useful for *many* spelling situations!

“B-I-B-L-E… and Bible is God’s Word!”

“C-O-O-K-I-E… and cookie is our snack-o” (that’s my personal fav)

“D-A-D-D-Y… and daddy is his name-o”

“P-A-S-T-O-R… and pastor is his name-o”

“S-T-U-D-Y… and study is our game-o”

“T-A-B-L-E… and table is it’s name-o”

“M-O-M-M-Y… and tired is her name-o” (oh wait… whoops…)

Now, as a proper English major, I realize that the syllabication is off on some of these; I also realize that as a proper adult I never thought I’d be Yankovic-ing nursery rhymes to
supplement my homeschooling. Whaddya gonna do? Hand me a latte and let’s move on because it definitely works for me.

Head on over to Shannon’s and tell us what works for you!