Look for the opportunities

You want to always look for the opportunities to learn. They are everywhere!

Foam Letters in the Bathtub!

What kid doesn't have letter blocks? Yours? Buy now.

Playdough! Helps with fine motor skills...aka Develop those finger skills! You can even buy playdough tools like letter stamps that Isaac is using here. Another fun way to play with letters!

Environmental print! Your child already recognizes these. Use them to help your child identify letters you're studying. They'll feel special because they think they are reading the word, when in fact, they are just memorizing the word in context. But this is still fun to do. Eventually, your child will begin to make connections with it all!

Here was our morning message. Isaac identified "we" after using it yesterday. He knew "Daddy." After we read the sentence together and broke it up, he was able to identify "Walmart." He knew that word was in the sentence, and again he deduced that this must be the word for his favorite store! haha...He wanted me to capitalize "we" like we did yesterday, so that opened up the opportunity for me to explain that I won't captialize it because it is not at the beginning of the sentence like yesterday. When I capitalized "Daddy" he got on to me, and I explained that it was someone's name. Same with Walmart. I was amazed that this was making sense to him. I don't expect him to be an expert on this. Duh. But exposure is great!