What's a digraph?

Today, Carter’s teacher held a video chat. This woman is a saint! Most of the class showed up. Carter said that only five kids didn’t make it – out of thirty. They all struggled to not talk at once, and there was a horrible echo. However, they worked through it. Because of the chaos, she scheduled smaller videos during the week, with only five or six kids at a time. But, she is still planning on doing weekly class meetings.

Their work is still hard! Carter had this word problem. It doesn’t even make sense. How can they eat more than one whole sandwich? My sister suggested they were birds: Mom, Emily, ate more than half, then regurgitated it up for baby, Jordan. That was the likeliest scenario. Still too much thinking.

I mentioned two of my kids are lefties, right? All kids struggle with spacing their words out. It just all runs together like one big long word. We are working on using “Finger Spaces” in between each word. Well, now I see how impossible that is for left-handed kids! 

And what is this? It could go either way?! I made sure she knew what sound these “digraphs” make (she knew that they were “digraphs” – more than I knew. I had to look it up when Beckett came home from Kindergarten last year using that word. What happened to learning your ABCs and how to read in Kindergarten?!)