Learning the Alphabet

From the beginning, Payden has always learned things on her own timetable. If she didn't want to learn it, it wasn't even worth trying. When she was 1, she could say, "I need down, please," but if you asked her what sound a dog made, she had no idea because she just didn't care. Well, this past year she finally decided to learn her ABCs. Once Shelby and Taylor got into school, she decided she didn't just want to know her ABCs, but she was finally willing to learn what they say and what the lowercase letters look like.

Each school day while Declan naps, Payden gets to go to school with Mom as her teacher. She absolutely loves it! Each day we do a new letter. We have a Kindergarten workbook that she does pages from on each letter. She gets to practice writing the upper and lowercase letters as well as learn the sound of the letter and find words that start with that letter. We finish the lesson by going through ads and magazines finding pictures that start with the Letter of the Day, which we then cut out and glue on construction paper. When we're all done, we'll laminate the pages and make an ABC book out of it.

After we go through a third of the letters, we take a day to play with some modeling clay, constructing the letters she's learned out of clay. Well, we finally had our last day learning the ABCs. Instead of doing just the last third of the alphabet, she wanted to do the entire alphabet that day. Well, she got to the Letter H and wanted to be done. Since we hadn't done R-Z, I made her do those and we finished our last lesson on the ABCs. I'm sure we'll come back to them, but for now we're moving on to numbers and shapes and colors.


Way to go Payden!!!