Goldfish

When I arrived at Elisabeth's school today, her teacher greeted me at the door. She asked Elisabeth to show me what she had done in school. She pointed to the word "goldfish" (clearly in her handwriting) on the bulletin board. The letters were well-formed, and I affirmed her work, thinking that was what we were observing. Elisabeth's teacher then explained that not only had she written the word, but she had spelled it by sounding it out. Previously, we had been working on words like "sit" and "bat", so "goldfish" is a major milestone!