Letter Recognition

We have a set of magnetic letters on the refrigerator. The set of letters has a battery-operated box (also magnetic) that sings songs: one is the traditional ABC song and the other sings a little ditty about the sound a letter makes, depending which letter is in the box. Just like Evelyn did when she was a toddler, Julia enjoys playing with this toy, and she tries to sing along with the ABC song.

Julia is now catching on to the idea of letters, words and reading. For the past two days, Julia's shirt has had words on it. Whenever she looked at her shirt, she started singing her rendition of the ABC song. As I've been reading books to her, she points to the words on the page and again starts singing the ABC song. In my opinion, singing is her way of telling me that she notices there are letters and words on the page. And print recognition eventually leads to reading - yippee!