word and sentence of the day

Every day I give my son a new word to learn. We spell it outloud, annunciate it, then go to the refridge and use his magnetic letters to spell it out once again before I take him to school. When I pick him up from school, I ask him the word and sentence of the day.

Word of the day for 4/24/09 is DANCE. D A N C E

and his sentence is, 'music makes me want to DANCE'

I have been doing this for a month now but I've always been active in teaching him words and how to sound out a word to learn how to say it when he doesn't know it. His vocabulary is obviously increasing rapidly. I have other ideas to increase your kids ability to communicate effectively. feel free to get at me... take care.