I Learned Something New Today

This afternoon, I had an unusual amount of free time to play with the kids.   It was so nice to just sit and play for a prolonged period of time without a list of things to do running through my head.  I was nervous that I was forgetting to do something!  I'll probably figure what that was tomorrow.  :) 

Anyway, we got out some letter magnets the kids hadn't shown much interest in for a while.  We started making little words on the dry-erase board that we put in the playroom.  Aidan and Alanna had fun making words and helping me put the sounds together and figure out what the word was.  They've shown a lot of interest in some pre-reading skills, so it wasn't shocking that they kept asking to do more. 

What surprised me is that Emory has learned a good number of the letter names, and when I asked her the associated sound, she knew about half of the ones I asked her about.  She was pulling the magnets out of the box and showing me the letter and saying the names.  Aidan and Alanna showed a lot of interest in learning letter names and sounds, so they knew them at a very early age without me ever spending time trying to teach it to them.  Emory hasn't really shown too much outward interest in this, so I assumed she wasn't really paying attention when these things came up with Aidan and Alanna.  Silly me...