Children are especially appreciative of contributions made by others. A six year old came excited into the environment after a long illness. She wanted to find out everything about penicillin. To find answers through other people's lives, struggles, disappointments and victories can be a light on the road through life and add meaning to our existence. Language is not limited to spoken communication.
Sounds are the building blocks of our language.
The child's joy in sounds, that he hears in words is responded to in the sound games between 3 and 4 year olds. He listens for sounds at the beginning of the word, in the middle or at the end. since we have given him many new words, he can think of words with a particular sound. It is a delight for him when he can segment all the sounds in words. The delight that these sounds can be made visible in symbols leads him to the sandpaper letters. The fact that relatively few symbols are needed to express a language which is infinite and still evolving must excite us, so the child can fall in love with these letters.