ABCs & 123s

Ethan is into a lot of things these days. He counts everything. the number of people at the table - then breaks it down by gender, by adults vs. kids. He counts the number of bites of food he has to eat before he can get dessert. He counts the cars, the trucks, he'd probably count the number of leaves on a tree if I asked him. and now - he's no longer skipping 15. he gets to 20 - then with some prompting can get to 30.

He is also in a phonics class at school. He loves reading and sounding out words. Even before he started that class he was reading FAT (from the fat tire beer can), Open on the store door, and quite a few others. He has this that I really think has helped him along as well as this video. He knew the name and sound of every letter soon after he was 3. Now he has a list of "sight words" - he can recognize and knows: the, my, we, too, like, look, you. and he comes home spelling the names of his friends at school (Hayden, Ewan, and Ana have made the cut so far)