Most of the things that Little E knows, he was not taught. I mean, he just sort of picked them up somewhere. I have never really sat down and taught him anything intentionally.
I decided this week that I would take some time each evening to sit down with him and teach him something.
Last night, I introduced him to the lowercase alphabet. He already knows the upper case one, and he is learning the letter sounds and showing other signs of reading readiness, so I figured that I would teach him the lowercase alphabet, which he will need to be able to read books.
I wrote out the uppercase and lowercase letters side-by-side, then I asked him to tell me the similarities and differences between them. I wanted him to recognize that while some letters look the same (like S and s), some letters do not look anything alike (like G and g).
After, I wrote out a few lowercase letters and “quizzed” him. He did well.
Tonight, I went for something a little more lighthearted - “I’m a Little Teapot.” He thought it was pretty funny.
After we sang it a few times, he asked, “Why does it say ‘tip me over and pour me out’?”
“Because when the water is hot you pour it out,” I replied, somewhat confused, since he is very familiar with tea drinking. (Bob and I are big tea drinkers.)
“You pour the water out. You don’t pour the teapot out!!!”
I love this age!
