Our Simple Life

Learning Letter Sounds

J has known all the letter names for a while and practices tracing and/or writing them daily. He really likes  to write! M detested writing up until maybe a year ago?? Isn't it cool to see differences in your children when you KNOW it has nothing to do with you, your parenting style, or the child's environment; it's their individual personality shining through? I think it's neat. 

At the first of the week I gave him upper and lowercases of each: a, b, and c to trace. I had decided I was going to tell him the letter sound of each as he traced each one and see what he thought and if he seemed ready to really learn them yet. He thought it was great! I said "A, aaaaaaaa" and did the ASL sign. He repeated me with a big grin on his face. :) Then I said the Hooked On Phonics word to go with A. I said "A, aaaaaaaa, apple" and again he copied me. It was really cute to see him respond like that. So we did the first three letters, and I'll probably do a few more next week. :)

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5:09 PM, Feb. 2, 2008 .. Posted by hugs4Him

My daughter is learning to read but doesn't like it. She seems more of a numbers person; not like me at all LOL. I think she'll like reading the more she practices on fun readers & such.