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[tasha41]

Oh I meant to say congrats to Amanda!!! Hopefully it takes a bit of stress off you

Thanks Brig! I'm going to look at that now. I looked online and a few threads on other forums came up with a huge range of answers- from nothing to huuuuuge lists of things.

 

[Tiff]

The episodes "1,2 3, Count with Me" and "Do The Alphabet" are the ones that really got Claire into learning her numbers and alphabet. "Do the Alphabet" has Big Bird with younger kids who are in a support group because they can't say the alphabet from start to finish. Its so friggin' cute, there's this one little girl who's like right into the music (the song is jazzy) and she's rocking right out lmao.

We have Jr and Sr Kindergarten here, there's two different rotations that kids can do and I believe they do a full day every other day. I really should look into that.

 

[Vickie]

Tasha it sounds like Elyse is doing great! I really wouldn't worry to much about her being ready, I think you're already almost there

I generally take things by Hannah's interest. For a long time that was all numbers and counting, she's just now getting into learning sounds of letters. As for learning her alphabet that is totally credited to music class She listened to the ABC song so much in there that it kinda stuck eventually We do work on recognizing letters with flashcards once a week or so before nap (she loves flashcards )

Thanks for the link Brig! I'll have a look at it during nap.

I can't really get Hannah to watch Sesame Street. She loved it around one year of age and than it became Dora and now (by force ) It's Mickey Mouse and Jake and the Neverland Pirates on Disney Jr.

There was an episode of Sesame Street that I wanted to look up for her though about bullying, just haven't done it yet.

It is a good program for teaching numbers, letters and sounds from what little we have seen of it

And Sara I was the same I kept thinking I should be doing more than I was but in reality Hannah wasn't ready for that stuff at that age, not even close

Glad that operation sleep in her own bed went well!

We had music class today which was fun but Hannah is in a very argumentative mood She slept great last night though which is good and looks like she's feeling better today

 

[Vickie]

oh and we were at the community centre getting ready to walk to the bus and this older woman stopped us and told me that Hannah entertains her on the bus ALL the time

 

[BrandiCanucks]

Tasha, a good movie that helped my kids learn the alphabet was Leap Frog's Letter Factory. It personifies the letters and puts them in situations that force them to use their sound. Like the H is in a super hot room and are in need of water, so they're panting "ha ha ha", or the letter E is really old and Tad, the young frog asks him for his sound, and the E goes "Ehhh". It's really cute, but really annoying at the same time. My kids wanted to watch it over and over again and in two weeks, they could recognize every letter of the alphabet.

 

[BlackBerry25]

My mom is homeschooling my sister for kindergarten, and they just have to know the alphabet for grade 1. Really, there is not much that they learn in kindergarten. I was surprised because Helena has known all this stuff for a long time. She can type her own name and Brian is working on simple math with her. (He does Daddy Daughter learning time every few days since she is a sponge and soaking up EVERYTHING)

Helena learned the alphabet with that leapfrog alphabet thing that sticks on the fridge and just singing the alphabet song (elmo has some on youtube)

 

[readynwilling]

checking out that video now Brandi - thanks. Also looking for community music classes

I just signed J up for another baby signing class. I love doing classes with her (will miss it when i go back to work, i might ask to work sundays and take a day off during the week to do a class with her...)

 

[readynwilling]

oh man im so impulsive LOL just bought the leap frog dvd as part of a 3 dvd set, and both 1,2,3 count with me & do the alphabet from sesame street from Amazon... oh well they are xmas gifts anyway.

 

[BrandiCanucks]

When my friend's typical son went into JK last year, they did a "skills" test to see where he was at. He scored 2/15. It wasn't because he was "dumb" or anything, but my friend was shocked to learn that part of that test was knowing what the spaces in between the words of a sentence were, and the name of the dot at the end of a sentence. She didn't expect that 4 year olds were supposed to know that stuff already and it made her feel really guilty, as if she didn't work hard enough with her son.

 

[BrandiCanucks]

It's so worth it, Sara!

 

[Vickie]

Sara do they offer any weekend classes there? They do have a few here (not sure what the variety is though I know swim is done on the weekends). It'd be great if you could still do a class or two with J though

 

[Tiff]

Its SO worth it Sara! Tho lemme PM you

 

[Vickie]

I so know what you are PMing her Tiff

 

[Tiff]

 

[readynwilling]

LOL

there are Saturday classes - so that will always be an option

 

[Melissa_M]

Another happy customer!!!
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Thanks Brig!!!

 

[BrandiCanucks]

Anybody want a croupy baby? She's been screaming for two hours solid. You can return her when the croup is gone.

 

[readynwilling]

Cute slippers Melissa

Hope she feels better soon Brandi

J is in her pj's and were watching big bang theory, on track for night #2 of J sleeping on her own and going down at a decent time.

 

[MommyKC]

Aww Alia seems to love her slippers! Though I'm not surprised!

Yeah, I feel like I should be teaching Kyree more and getting her more prepared for school. But on the other hand, I'm not even with her that much now that I'm back to work so I kind of rely on my Mom to teach her, and I don't know how much she'll really treach her iykwim? I dunno. I just don't want her behind.
Right now she does pretty good in pre-school. But she still doesn't know the alphabet. I sing it to her ALL the time and she just doesn't care. She knows most of the letters, and what words start with some of the letters (Brig - whenever she hears "P" she says PEYTON! ).... but she just can't sing the whole song. And with her slight language delays, it seems harder. I'm not sure what to do.

I have a headache. Again. I'm just having a decaf coffee before heading to bed. I have a pretty busy weekend!

 

[MamaBird]

Awwwe!! Melissa! she looks so cue with her little slippers!! do you mind if I steal a picture for my site and FB page?

And Kate, that is seriously so cute that she says Peyton when she hears P.