Yesterday as we were leaving my in law's place after having dinner there, we were walking up the towards our car when we heard Jaimie utter "Dee, Aye, Ee, Age, Aye!". We quickly realised that she was reading out the letters of the word "AHEAD" that was painted on the road. What surprised us was that she could recognise the letters upside down, as from the direction that we were walking, the word was inverted! However, when we proceeded erm....ahead and reached the upside down "HUMP", she gazed at the letters intently but appeared to be stumped. We guessed she was trying to figure out if these letters were to be read while inverted like the ones before, or were the first two letters "d" and "W"?
Nontheless, we were actually quite impressed with our little girl!! :)
Thinking back, it was about a month or two ago when she started to display her keeness in letters identification. I remembered Clement passed her an advertisement postcard that he wanted to discard together with the other mail trash. The card had the word "SALE" printed on it, in bold red letters. The little one surprised us then when she read out the letters correctly and clearly as she held the card in her tiny hands. She has been doing this since, and appears to be now more familar with her 26 ang-mo friends.
We are unsure though as to what contributed to her learning. It might be the Leapfrog Letter Factory DVD, or perhaps that "Maisy's ABC" VCD, both of which she'd enjoyed viewing. Maybe the stimulation from her childcare centre activities helped? Whatever it is, we find it very exciting and amazing. Mama's next big ambition for the girl could be....learning to spell!?!?!?! Errrrr.....? Let's try!
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My Vince also likes to spell out the letters of the words that catches his eye
Imagine we stopping almost every time he wants to spell out the words displayed outsides the shops
Now I am trying to move him on to reading or saying the words
stardust - unless you are talking about sight words where they recognise words that they have memorised, i think at this stage our kids wdn't be ready to do any actual reading yet lah. Not until after they've mastered phonics and letter-blending.
lol @ '26 ang-mo friends'... Angie, you never fail to make me laugh each time with what you write :P
Well, I'm impressed with you Jae! But I'm not surprise, I mean, Jae is so expressive, so it's natural for her to read the letters from everywhere she spots them.
I still remember both my 2 girls like to turn the letter 'W' both ways and read it as 'W' and 'M', they did the same for "d, p, b, q" turning and flipping that single letter to read it 4 ways, showing off to mama that they know their alphebet, haha.
Soon, Jae will be reading signboards on the road, just like Tiffany.
*clap clap clap* Yeah! great development, hey you never know, try with the 2-alphabets first, like 'to', 'no'....etc, she may really surprise you!
Never underestimate what your child can do.
Well done Jae..we are so proud of you..
angie, one day she will surprise you when she see a bike and spell..b-i-k-e and say bike!!
oh yes..wanted to share this with you..maybe you can use the fill in the blanks method as a start..
eg..a_ple (which is apple)or b_ll (ball)
For Cherrlyn, when I have wrote app__, she tell me apple..pi_ she can tell me pig.
she is not into sleeping yet..but i think that with that it help the kid along the way..
thanks for the tip, joyce! i will try your method. at the moment, i am using rythem for a start. because we realised that jaimie picks things up quite fast from music, we make the spelling like singing/rapping for her. so far, she can spell "apple", "bus" and "jaimie". and she'll recognise the word when we spell "love", "elmo" and "car"...
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