Baby sponge

My baby - now a toddler - is a little sponge!
I sing to her, we speak to her constantly and just like that, suddenly, she's throwing all these words back at us
she can say, 'no no' with a twinkle in her eye, and 'yea yea' with a little smile
I sing to her Two little dicky birds sitting on a Wall, and she says Wowl (silent l), one named peter one named paul and she says Pow(l) then I tell her I'll be putting cream on kaal (leg in tamil) and she say Kaw(l)!
I sing wheels on the bus go round and round, and she says 'roun'
now everything is Athiya athiya - Athiya will feed herself, drink water herself go everywhere herself!
Door, Doll, Ball, back, quack, cluck, hiss, miaw, pia, dog, boo (for moo)
how fun!

time to smoke

writing 21st cc lesson examplars now and it's time to smoke our way through!
it's a matter of cutting and pasting, matching and mixing - not quite intellectual but smart- we train our pupils well in this for what are we doing if not spotting, what are we practising if not trying to cut to the chase to produce the desired result - any learning that happens is ancilliary - accidental, that which happens as we try to meet our desired outcomes - meaning, it is the outcome that determines the learning and not the other way around!
epiphany!