ABC’s

Sean has become fascinated with letters in the past couple months. It started with the ABC song, which he can sing through on his own now. And he’s been learning the capital letters (starting with ‘S’ is for Sean, ‘M’ is for Mommy, and ‘D’ is for Daddy). It’s interesting to note that he doesn’t much care about rotation and orientation. I mean, it’s interesting to me; probably many people are familiar with kids writing their ‘P’s backward. But Sean (and probably most kids) can identify letters regardless of orientation, which is pretty amazing if you’ve ever tried to teach a computer to do the same thing. In fact, we had a few weeks where Sean insisted ‘W’ was really ‘M’ — because, you know, just flip it over, see?!? It’s an ‘M’! Likewise he’s still insisting that 2’s and 5’s are really ‘S’s. The whole learning thing is fascinating. Anyway, I was amazed to note that Sean actually can name almost all the capital letters; he got letter magnets for Christmas and was pulling them out of the box one-by-one and naming them, while putting them on the refrigerator. There were a few where he asked, “this is?” but he knew the rest. Holy cow.

Here’s Sean singing (parts of) the ABC song back in November. He could do the whole thing, but I was never able to get it all on video…