Recently our nephews Shukri and Sadiq introduced the game BOGGLE to the rest of the gang. They had fun in Sentosa playing it. So much fun that each family ended up buying a set each, and have been boggling away since..
We bought a set for Jeremy 2 days ago. We tried very hard to teach him the rules of the game (which by the way was designed for kids 8 years and above). As for Timothy, he joins in the game as well, but instead of forming words I told him to write all the letters that he can recognise within the stipulated time. Their progress so far?
Jeremy:
He really surprised me tonight. Just last night, it seemed so hard explaining to him how to look for words. I didn't want him to be discouraged, so I manipulated the "shake" of the letters so that he got enough vowels to form words. Tonight, I was busy settling Timothy in his bed while Jeremy was "shaking" the letters. When I was ready to play with him, I realised that the letters were tough - he had difficult letters like "Qu", K, Y, W, X!! So i told him to shake again citing "too difficult" as the reason. He stopped me from doing so and insisted that he knows. And very quickly, he pointed out the word "KEY" to me!! So I let him try... and below is the list of words he came up with ..
key, axe, toe, keys, way, tea, tow, ways, wax, wet, no, on...
Think he was very happy with this because he said he wanted to show his daddy when he comes back from China!
Timothy:
I think he got the idea of how the game is to be played while we were trying very hard to teach Jerry. Tonight, instead of writing letters that he can recognise, like what i have taught him, he actually put 3 letters together! Since he does not know how to spell, I could only spot one correct answer (EEL) out of the 63 words that he came out with! By the way, I did not even check if Eel should be there.. and also, 63 words was what he counted. He lost count after 15, jumping from 15 to 17, correct till 23, then jumped to 40s, then 50s and 60s... Good try Timmy!
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