Sweet Pea is now 4 and I find myself repeating activities I did with Cutie Pie quite often now. In some ways it’s fun to revisit them, but in other ways I think Sweet Pea may learn differently than Cutie Pie so I’m trying some new things, too. I’m sharing today the process I used to help Sweet Pea learn his name and am wondering what methods you have used in the past or are using now to reinforce this with your own kiddos.
Sweet Pea is starting to learn his letters in preschool using the Handwriting without Tears method and has so far learned L, F and E. At home he’s still not very interested in writing, but we have been working on recognizing his name.
This time around, I wrote out Sweet Pea’s real name on paint chips then cut them to fit together like a puzzle. At first he loved it, like holding the letters of his name was something mysterious. But now he doesn’t like to play with them now that he’s done it a few times.
However, after realizing he was learning letters at school I wrote his name on the chalkboard and set the paint chip letters below. He got excited and wanted to match them with his paint chip letters (I was hoping he’d try to write it himself.) We did that several times and now he’s bored with that, too.
Then, a few days later, I tried writing the letters of his name with just my finger on the chalkboard, leaving a clean line through some remaining dust. He picked up the chalk and traced his name! Progress!
He’s at the point now where he definitely recognizes his name and the letters in his name when they are not spelling his name (if that makes any sense!) although he still doesn’t like to write. It took a while to get here, but like I said, he learns differently than his brother.
Like I mentioned above, I’m very interested in learning how you’ve worked with your kiddos to learn their names and letters. Any other fun learning methods I can try with Sweet Pea?
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