Once again, the 'Blue's Clues' book was the choice of the toddler for night night story. We went through the clues for the umpteenth time, and had settled in on the story of Blue going to school. One picture in the book revealed a dog holding some letter blocks.
Taking this as an opportunity, I started reading out P-L-A-Y spells play. The boy told me, "No Daddy, it's my turn! A! Y! L! P!!!"
He then correctly described the full palette of colors from the painting scene from the next page.
I love the boy.
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3 comments:
We bought our two-year old an alphabet placemat a while back. She loves to read anyhow, and loves to sing, so it's a good way for her to have some fun at the dinner table doing ABCs. We don't push her though, as it's not like she's not going to learn to read. And sometimes we have to insist she stop so she'll eat her dinner.
But what's fun for me is to realize how much of what I take for granted is actually the hard part. The easy part is recognizing the letters. The hard part is understanding the arrangement (left to right, down to the left, left to right again). The same is true for games like Candyland. She knows how the game works in theory, but she has trouble with the linear aspect of progressing from start to finish. In a way it's almost like we're limiting her imagination by insisting in Points A and B.
There's this phonics based set of fridge magnets that you can set in this magnetized little machine that also attaches to the fridge front and it helps with sounds and letters. It also sings the abc song. When The Littlest Critic wants to write out a new word (which she's doing with increasing frequency), I get her the letters, we set them up the right way, talking about the sounds they make and the shape of them, and she writes them out. It's been very exciting watching her switch out the first letter and get cat, mat, bat, sat, rat, and so on.
We have got that already critic. He has the upper and lower case letters.
They had one that did words on sale for christmas, but it was sold out.
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