Random alphabet thoughts:
Crazy ABCs by Barenaked Ladies on their kids album (Snack time) is cute.?
Dr. Suess's ABCs is one of the five year olds favorite books right now too.?
My third daughter's name is ?owyn with an accent on top.? Her birth certificate includes the accent. Her social security card does not because it's not officially in the alphabet.? When she was little she would tell people writing her name, "Don't forget my accident!". The other day she and her sister were talking about the names of Elon Musk's kids and how they had to change the names because the State of California didn't recognize symbols in birth certificates.? That conversation was an evolving one where they started with one thing, ended in a totally different place, and fact checked a few things online along the way.
The alphabet has been useful for helping my kids write something down when my hands are busy with another kid.? My 14 year old asked me to help her alphabetize her Pokemon card collection a couple weeks ago.? (She knows it.? I never "taught" it to her.? It was a lot of cards).
I bought that app today thinking my 5 and 3 year olds might enjoy it, and my 9 year old got excited because it says the words and has them written down.? He went through the whole alphabet twice in a row on the game.? He's VERY close to reading fluently.? I think he actually is at this point but shy about maybe being wrong so still asking me what words say.?
