The other day, we here in 1/2B discovered something amazing about the way words work...
It all started when Isaac was brave with his writing and he had a go at stretching out the word "floor."
He knew it started with fl and ended with an r but he wasn't sure what letters he should use to make the "or" sound in the middle. We talked about it as a class and discovered that the "or" sound in the middle of floor was a double o. Not an "oo" like in book but an "oor" like in poor.
But of course that's not the only combination of letters that make the "or" sound. There's "ore" like in core and "aur" like in dinosaur, and of course, "awe" like in awesome. In the end we discovered no less than NINE different ways to make the sound "or."
Can you think of any more....?
