{"id":1803,"date":"2013-11-11T07:59:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T12:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2013-11-22T15:48:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T20:48:43","slug":"letter-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/11\/letter-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Honeybun was about 2 1\/2 years old, she became very interested in the alphabet and was starting to recognize the letters and name them.\u00a0 I decided to put up a letter chart for her but didn\u2019t want to spend money on a cheesy store bought one (and wouldn\u2019t have even known where to look in Dublin!) so I decided to make one for her.<\/p>\n

I had made one for the classroom I worked in when she was a baby using pictures of things the children encountered in their lives.\u00a0 I never understood the store bought ones that were all animals and included uncommon things like yak, unicorn, and x-ray fish (I mean, seriously, when was the last time you saw a unicorn?!?!).\u00a0 I know it\u2019s important for young children to be able to relate what they are learning to their everyday life.<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>When I made Honeybun’s ABCs, I took it a step farther: I used pictures of things in our house.\u00a0 I had her help me find one things that started with each letter, which was challenging for her at the time and put each picture with each letter on an excel spreadsheet, printed, cut and hung on the kitchen cabinets.\u00a0 She learned all her letters just by looking at the list and pointing to the letters as she sang the ABC song.<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a> We were unable to bring the ABCs with us back from Dublin and since we didn\u2019t have all the same items, we made a new one for our new house.\u00a0 Honeybun was much better by this time at helping me find objects for each picture.\u00a0 Now Sugarplum is learning her letters the same way, by looking at the list in the kitchen.<\/p>\n

\"SONYWhile in Dublin I also made a set of mini-letters which I tried to use to help her make words but she didn\u2019t understand and they got put in a box never to come out when we moved, until last week.\u00a0 Honeybun’s Wednesday homework was to make a list of words using the letters a, i, k, l, o, p, s and t.\u00a0 I was worried this was going to be hard for her (and therefor a homework battle) so I got out the stack of mini-letters and found the 8 assigned letters and she took right off, making words without even needing my help!\u00a0 She thought of a word, arranged the letters and wrote it on her paper.\u00a0 We used the mini letters again the next day when she had to write 6 words ending in \u201c-at\u201d.\u00a0 I got out all the letters and she put together the \u201cat\u201d and then tried the other letters in front until she came up with her 6 words.\u00a0 I\u2019ve decided to leave the mini-letters in her homework tool-box as I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll need them again and they\u2019ve been so helpful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Honeybun was about 2 1\/2 years old, she became very interested in the alphabet and was starting to recognize the letters and name them.\u00a0 I decided to put up a letter chart for her but didn\u2019t want to spend money on a cheesy store bought one (and wouldn\u2019t have even known where to look […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-mommys-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1982,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}