After gulping down some freshly-squeezed orange juice, Aidyn worked on his letters with the help of his blue pocket chart and his Mama. First I randomly pointed to letters, and he guessed them. Each letter that stumped him was written on a piece of paper to revisit later. Then we cycled through the alphabet song twice, pointing to each letter as we sung. Still in a playing mood, Aidyn watched as I flipped over the letters he knew, only exposing the seven letters he didn't know. I named each letter twice and asked him to repeat after me, then we played a game.
"I will point to a letter and you must say as fast as you can to get a point," I said.
My Crayola marker, or makeshift pointer, dashed to a letter and Aidyn would spout out the name. Some he struggled with, particularly "M" and "N." Then we moved on to a different game.
"When I point to a letter, say its name as LOUD as you can!" I said.
After I pointed to a letter, he would shout its name at the top of his lungs.
"Ah, you can say it louder than that," I teased, to which he responded with an even louder burst.
When our game was over, Aidyn had "scored" ten points, and he was a proud boy.
After that game, Aidyn surprisingly asked to make some words. I asked him which words he would like to make.
"Cat," he said. So letter sound by letter sound, we constructed the word 'cat.' Then he asked to do "hat" like Cat in the Hat. So I asked him what makes the "Hh, Hh sound like someone is h-h-hot!" We had fun rearranging letters, spelling, and reading whole words.
Afterward, I made an alphabet chart on Microsoft Word to help me keep track of his progress. After he learns all his letters thoroughly, we'll move onto phonics.
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