Sunday, October 17, 2010

Numbers, Letters, Shapes, and Sentences

One of Ally's favorite toys is her shape-sorter. We actually have two of them; one that belonged to me when I was little, and the Tupperware shape-sorter that looks like a ball and has 10 shapes to sort (one of my fabulous E-bay finds). She has gotten pretty good at picking up a shape and finding its appropriate slot, although more intricate shapes like the pentagon and hexagon are still challenging.

Also, Ally is very much into numbers and letters. She likes to play with her letter fridge magnets as well as the letters that stick to the sides of the bathtub when they get wet. She knows the letter "O" and enjoys the alphabet song. She also likes to point out letters on clothing, particularly the letters on my University of Kentucky t-shirt.

Ally also counts to 10 in both English and Spanish. But apparently she does not believe that certain numbers exist. Here is her sequence in English:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10

And in Spanish:

1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 10

Evidently, 7 and 9 do not exist in English, and 5, 6, 7, and 9 don't exist in Spanish.

And to finish, Ally said her first inteligible sentence the other day that consisted of more than 2 words. I accidentally spilled my drink at the dinner table, which Ally observed and said, "Mommy no-no agua." It was pretty cute.

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