Learning is fun: Letter A

Abby's been slightly obsessed with letters and their sounds ever since we acquired our awesome alphabet fridge magnet toy at a yard sale a while back. So we started alphabet school, and I'm running a little behind on posting our progress. I'll start at the very beginning (a very good place to start) and maybe one of these days I'll catch up.

Letter A week found us eating apples and discussing things around our house that are awesome. (Babies are awesome. Poop is not. Abby is awesome. Booboos are not. You get the idea.) She totally gets the idea of every letter having it's very own sound, so we spent a lot of time emphasizing the beginning sounds of A words. When I quizzed her later ("What letter does apple start with?") she'd sound it out like we'd practiced earlier, eventually getting around to yelling out the answer ("ah...ah...apple! ah....ah....A!")

We read the Dr. Suess ABC book (one of her favorites), and she got so excited about all the letter A's on the first page that we hardly made it past Aunt Annie's Alligator. So we made one of our own. (She glued on those ferocious teeth all by herself. Not bad, huh?)

By the end of the week she could correctly identify the words "Abby" and "apple" (when they were spelled out in all capital letters) about 90% of the time, though she sometimes gets so excited that she just yells out her name no matter what word you show her.

Click here for pictures of our alphabet activities, and stay tuned for Letter B week...