⚠ The stripe on these cards is HALF the width of every earlier set’s. That is the new sorting cue, and it is deliberate: the nine colours this family uses are all spent, so set 09 reuses three of them and tells itself apart by length instead. Read the edge of a pile in two steps — a full-width stripe is one of sets 02–08; a half-width stripe is this set — and then, within this set, the colour is the group: green = Activities (7) · orange = Things (6) · purple = Hobbies (5). Length was chosen over a tenth colour because it still works on a greyscale printer. If half-width turns out to be hard to see in a shuffled pile, say so — the fallback is a dashed or doubled stripe and it is one line to change.
ice skating and skating are the pair to teach together. Both cards are a skate — one with a blade, one with wheels — and the two pictures are easy to tell apart, so the pictures are not the hard part here. The words are: nothing in either picture says ice, so that is the bit worth saying out loud while she holds the two cards. ⚠ Check the skating card before you cut: the roller-skate picture is the newest symbol on either sheet, and on an older tablet or phone it can come out as an empty box. If you see a box, print from a different device — the word is fine, it is only the picture.
⚠ laptop and the computer card on flashcards-04 are pictures of the same object. They are near-synonyms in the word list and nothing on one card can fix that, so hold the two together and say the difference out loud — a laptop is a computer you can carry. The same move works for three other pairs across the family: drawing with draw (flashcards-02 — it is the same picture, on purpose), listening to music with music (flashcards-07 — headphones for the doing, notes for the thing), and computer games with game (flashcards-08 — that card is a controller on its own, this one is a screen and a controller).
Two pictures name the thing and not the doing, so the verb is yours to say. watching films shows a clapper board, which is the only picture a child reads as film without a caption — no symbol anywhere carries the watching. And taking photos shows a camera with the flash going off, which is as close as a picture gets to the act. Worth saying the verb while she holds each card, because the picture cannot.
No red arrows anywhere on these two sheets. On flashcards-02 a red dashed arrow means an action, and almost every word here is an action — the swimmer and the dancer already show it, so an arrow would only repeat what the picture says. The one dashed line you will see is on drawing, where it is the part of the house not drawn yet; that is flashcards-02’s card copied unchanged.
The six cards at the end of sheet 2 are blank on purpose — picture box, ruled line, write your own. Their chip says Your own rather than Things, because they are not in that group; they carry the sheet’s orange stripe so they still sort back into this set. This banner does not print.