Cackle, Cackle, Mother Goose

Cackle, cackle, Mother Goose,
Have you any feathers loose?
Truly have I, pretty fellow,
Half enough to fill a pillow.
Here are quills, take one or two,
And down to make a bed for you.

M has a thing for pens and tries to get her hands on one whenever she can. She knows how to pull the cap off. Unfortunately she's not very good about keeping the tip of the rollerball away from her clothing. I have to do a lot of spot cleaning and hope it comes out in the wash. She also knows how to push the button on the ball point pens too. She sometimes likes us to hold her hand to help her write the alphabet. She isn't quite ready to write them on her own.

We spend a lot of time doing Mother Goose rhymes, it has really helped her speaking skills. She's picked up a lot of words, and is getting better at pronouncing things and imitating what we say. She is refining a lot of the words she says. For example, she can now say "wah-ter" where she used to say "wa-wa".

She makes requests for specific Mother Goose rhymes. She wants to hear Cackle, Cackle, Mother Goose when she says, "kah-koe kah-koe." She wants to hear Mary, Mary Quite Contrary when she says, "may may may." And she wants to hear Rain, Rain Go Away when she says, "ray ray ray ray."

She's getting better at saying her ABCs. She still skips a few letters here and there, but her memory for the sequence of letters is so much better now. As for numbers, she knows 1 through 10, and recognizes 11 through 20, although she can't quite say these numbers yet.

We've been playing a CD I checked out of the library, Mommy & Me: More Playgroup Favorites, which she loves. She tries to sing along to familiar songs like "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes". She'll say a word here and there, and she is saying more words as she listens to the CD more frequently. I've been playing another CD, Raffi's Quiet Time , during nap time in the car. I don't know if it helps, but I think the slower softer soothing music can't hurt. She'll sing along to "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".


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