So my sister and I are pretty close in age. And we're pretty competitive. About pretty much everything. I called her last week, and told her about my experience in Jonah's preschool, and how kids were constantly calling out to him, "Jonah, come play with me!" "Jonah sit with me!" "Jonah, make me a sandwich!" (this last one was loud, from across the room, while my favorite guy was "cutting" wooden veggies in the play kitchen). My niece is more reserved and is a watcher of others, from what my sister has said, and when I mentioned this, she told me about her not-so-outgoing little girl. I knew that my niece was quieter, and didn't tell her about Jonah to be any way, but my sister did mention about how well her son (who is a year younger than Jonah) is doing with his letters. At three, he can sound out 3-letter words with obvious middle vowel sounds. I was super impressed. Give him a word like "bug" "hat" or "gum" and he can probably get it. But it made me a little more aware of how uninterested my guy is in letters. If it's a letter outside of his name, except for i, he probably doesn't know it. And at four, with some in his class that are really much further along in that department than he is, I thought maybe I should initiate a little more activity relating to letters and sounds. In the car this afternoon, we he agreed to work on it. We started with the letter B and talked about the sound it makes; then this:
M: Jonah, can you think of a word that starts with B?
J: Ummmmmm...
M: Buh buh buh
J: Buh buh buh beak! Beak! Seagull!
Sigh. It's a good thing he's athletic!
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Too funny :) It reminds of when Austin was much younger and I would try to sneak in games when we were driving around that would encourage math concepts. He would happily play along until the day came when in the midst of a "game" he stopped and looked accusingly at me "Is this math??!" From then on I had to find another angle...
If it makes you feel better, they like to sing "Down by the Bay" with verses like "Did you ever see a penguin without flappers?" and "Did you ever see a puppy eating a bone?" So the rhyming thing is still developing. Don't worry about the word interest, you goof! If I recall correctly, his mother read Archie comics from about grade 2 through 9, yet somehow she's literate!
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