Hooked on Phonics

Genevieve is getting pretty good at reading. Well maybe not reading but pattern recognition anyway. She can almost always pick out her name. She knows all of the letters including both upper and lower case. Some fonts still confuse her but for the most part she can spell out any word. She knows the sounds of the letters and will pronounce them with exaggerated emphasis. e.g. Buh-Att (bat) Cuh-Att (cat)

Yesterday she was playing with her CD player music box. It is a wind-up CD player that has a set of 4 plastic discs with grooves one one side with spaced notches in the grooves. The discs rotate over tuned tines just like a music box. It is the updated version of the record player I had as a kid. Perhaps there was an incarnation before that where it was a Victrola or an Edison wax cylinder.

But I digress. There are three buttons on the CD player and Genevieve was spelling out each one.

"Ess-Tee-Oh-Pee. Stuh-Op. Stop."

"Eee-Jay-Eee-Cee-Tee. Eee-Jec-Tuh. Eject"

"Pee-Ell-Ayy-Why. Guh-Oh. Go."

Oh well, I guess she just has a good memory and fakes it.