"Letters, Letters, Everywhere!" That is a quote that could be related to my life for the past 7 years. In my "BK" life (aka Before Kids Life) I was a first & Kinder teacher for 4 years. Then, the past 3 almost half years I've been staying home with Emma Kate & Jackson. Singing the alphabet song, saying letters, making all the letters sounds, & spelling words are part of my daily life. Emma Kate has been interested in letters from a pretty young age (roughly 1 1/2). She loved these Baby Einstein alphabet book set we had & through reading them over & over & over again taught herself all the letters & words that start with that letter. One of my bff's, Sara was over the day we kinda "discovered" she knew the whole alphabet & we were both stunned. :)
Then, there's little brother who has his own distinct personality. He beats to his own drum. He hasn't shown much interest in learning his letters. Except singing the alphabet song. Awhile ago, I attempted the Baby Einstein letter books & he wanted nothing to do with them, so I backed off.
However, Jackson LOVES the iPhone & my ipad. I recently downloaded some educational apps & he would probably try to play the "games" all day long if we let him. Most of the apps I got focus on: colors, shapes, letters, numbers, & letter sounds. EK is a champ & for being 2 yrs. old Jackson knew a few more letters & sounds than I expected. So this prompted me to start doing "Letter/Number of the Week" (so Kindergarten teacher like!)
They were both excited for "letter/number of the week". Emma Kate more than Jackson. We started with A & #1. I did "school" with them at their red table. First we started with making the A sound, taught them the correct way to write A, then talked about upper & lowercase letters, made wrote/drew a list of A words, & then we made a craft. A--Alligator was a easy enough & fun craft for them.
Cutest quote came from EK after we did this: "Okay, now can we start B & #2!" haha She would prefer a letter of the day! I think with Jackson we should take it slow & not force it. Maybe 2 letters per week to focus on would be good.
Then, there's little brother who has his own distinct personality. He beats to his own drum. He hasn't shown much interest in learning his letters. Except singing the alphabet song. Awhile ago, I attempted the Baby Einstein letter books & he wanted nothing to do with them, so I backed off.
However, Jackson LOVES the iPhone & my ipad. I recently downloaded some educational apps & he would probably try to play the "games" all day long if we let him. Most of the apps I got focus on: colors, shapes, letters, numbers, & letter sounds. EK is a champ & for being 2 yrs. old Jackson knew a few more letters & sounds than I expected. So this prompted me to start doing "Letter/Number of the Week" (so Kindergarten teacher like!)
They were both excited for "letter/number of the week". Emma Kate more than Jackson. We started with A & #1. I did "school" with them at their red table. First we started with making the A sound, taught them the correct way to write A, then talked about upper & lowercase letters, made wrote/drew a list of A words, & then we made a craft. A--Alligator was a easy enough & fun craft for them.
Cutest quote came from EK after we did this: "Okay, now can we start B & #2!" haha She would prefer a letter of the day! I think with Jackson we should take it slow & not force it. Maybe 2 letters per week to focus on would be good.
letter sticker art
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