Tornado Boy and I were working on putting together a wooden United States puzzle this past weekend. When you take the colored state pieces out, the area below shows the outline of the state and the name of the capital city. TB would pick up a puzzle piece and I would give him information about the state such as “it’s on the west coast” or about its capital city. He’d have to use the clue and the outline to help him place the piece in the puzzle. We talked a lot about the pronunciation of some of the state and city names since several of them do not follow phonetic rules and they can be a bit tricky to pronounce. Towards the end of the puzzle, Tornado Boy picked up the state of Minnesota and I told him that the capital city was St. Paul. Tornado Boy found the outline and said “Mom, that’s not “Saint” Paul, it’s “Street” Paul.
Once again I had to laugh. The boy is so logical and St. is definitely street on all of the signs that he sees around town each day. I never really thought about how confusing abbreviations can be when they’re out of context.
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Cute mistake! Happy TTT!
I love those kind of puzzles… reminds me to take ours out for a bit!! I’m amazed at how much the kids pick up from such a “simple” activity:)
They are always thinking;)
Wow! I never thought of how confusing abbreviations could be.
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LOL. I love how children interpret the world around them. It’s nice to write things like this down because it will be fun to look back from years from now. I think I’ll do one too!
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This is pretty funny – I just ordered M&D state puzzle for Anna and curious to see if she likes it.
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