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Jul. 31st, 2006 01:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fleaHarvest:
6 pole beans
6 carrots
Yesterday we took Dillo with us to the movies (Pirates, good silly fun - yay Scruffy!Norrington, boo Girly!Keira K.) and the ex-nanny took Casper. They visited the kittens at Nanny's house again, and Casper bent forward towards them and said, "Are you guys nervous?" Apparently so, as Casper was telling me about how they have little claws.
Casper's getting numerate: can count objects to 5 pretty reliably. Numbers greater than that tend to get broken down into fours. So it's not that she can't count higher than 5, it's that she's already mastered Base 4! Holds up two or three fingers to indicate numbers with adorable concentration.
She's very interested in letters right now. When she draws she makes a line of vertical lines to indicate writing. She "spells" words aloud - will say a few letters, not anywhere near the right ones. Like this exchange: mr. flea, "What are you saying? I can't understand that word." Casper, "F A H L R!" She sings the ABC song with gusto. She doesn't reliably recognize any of the letters as written, however, not even her own initial. Right now we have Toot and Puddle's ABC and the Dr. Seuss ABC out of the library.
6 pole beans
6 carrots
Yesterday we took Dillo with us to the movies (Pirates, good silly fun - yay Scruffy!Norrington, boo Girly!Keira K.) and the ex-nanny took Casper. They visited the kittens at Nanny's house again, and Casper bent forward towards them and said, "Are you guys nervous?" Apparently so, as Casper was telling me about how they have little claws.
Casper's getting numerate: can count objects to 5 pretty reliably. Numbers greater than that tend to get broken down into fours. So it's not that she can't count higher than 5, it's that she's already mastered Base 4! Holds up two or three fingers to indicate numbers with adorable concentration.
She's very interested in letters right now. When she draws she makes a line of vertical lines to indicate writing. She "spells" words aloud - will say a few letters, not anywhere near the right ones. Like this exchange: mr. flea, "What are you saying? I can't understand that word." Casper, "F A H L R!" She sings the ABC song with gusto. She doesn't reliably recognize any of the letters as written, however, not even her own initial. Right now we have Toot and Puddle's ABC and the Dr. Seuss ABC out of the library.