Daley Ponderings

Jonathan was wearing a shirt he got from Auntie E for Christmas and he looked down at his chest and said, "zero-s-h-k-zero-s-h.  Oshkosh!"  That was interesting to me because when he was first learning numerals, he called zeroes "o."  When I menioned that in this case they were letters, so they were O's, he said, no, they had this shape, so they were zeros.  It was a font thing. (one more thing to note - he was reading the letters upsidedown because he was wearing the shirt.)

 

Yesterday he got a letter from Grandma that had many words that rhyme with "cat."  He could consistently spell the words, and do individual sounds (rrr, aaa, ttt) but very often would finish with "at."  Ex. "b-a-t.  bbb.  aaa.   ttt.  bbb at.  at!"  But one or two he did it all the way (s-a-t. sss.  aaa.  ttt.  sss.  at.  sat!")   He has not yet made the discovery that the word is always the same, ie, he has to sound it out every time.  Nor that this list was all "at" words and that once he found the first sound he could just ryhme that with at.

 

By the way, I mention these details as an observation of the learning process, and because I think my mom will be interested.  It is not meant to be a comparison to anyone else, though I guess I will probably be interested in reading back on these posts once Noah is learning these things, too.