Flash Cards

Dyer has done an awesome job of learning his letters & letter sounds at 18 months! I can't take much credit for it since I think he has picked most of it up from watching a LeapFrog DVD when we are on long car rides. He's hooked to them and says "please" for a movie almost every time we get in the car. Dyer can pick out letters out of order and knows most of their sounds. We discovered this one night when we were outside playing & he walked over to my car and pointed to each letter and said "GMC" as plain as day.

At home we have a really great set of flash cards that I picked up at Barnes & Noble that have letters, shapes, colors, phonics, etc... all in one pack! Today we laid out all of the capital letters and did some practicing on recognizing them and their sounds.


Here he is after we laid them all out on the coffee table. I tell him "touch the A" and we talk about the sound and the picture that is on each card. His favorites are apple & sun.


Right before bed he picked out to focus on these, which we pulled out of the pile. I think my favorite is when he says "Q, qu, qu." It's pretty cute, and I think he likes it because we talk about ducks going "quack" when we talk about Q.


My plan is to totally steal my friend Mindy's idea and focus on more concepts one at a time. Just a little glimpse into our days at home!