Our Baby of LoveBlogging about our little Darius

For the record of his development in Language.

Alphabets:

After I changed a set of new alphabets on the fridge, he has come to know “i, j, t“, once I heard him say phonetic sound of “l” but never since then. He says, “i” as eye very correctly.Initially, he mistook j for i and says “i” at it. But now he says, “j” as a-jer ..not sure why he needed to add the ah- in front. He says, t as the correct phonetic quiet sound, just te..te..te.

Coupled with viewing of alphabet books and LeapFrog Letter Factory, he knows, “I” the uppercase too and says it the same. On the Baby You Can Read DVD, when “eyes” come up, he says, “eye!” So I don’t know how he is able to differentiate eye from i since they sound the same. Or maybe he just accepts it as if it, that there could be same sounds for different words.

He pronounced M as “Uh-mm” too, not only just “mmmm”. He would say, “M” (the name) followed by “mmmmm”(the phonetic sound) when he sees M. He would also say “mmmm” for Cow, because he just can’t pronounce Cow.

He says, “Aye” for A when I read The Alphabet Book. Cos I always read, “A, American ants…”. But when I show him the Letter A and ask him what it is, he says, “AAAAA” (phonetic sound) in a high-pitched voice, imitating those letters in the LeapFrog DVD.

He is getting better at pronouncing R, and would say, “ar” instead of sounding more like oh.

He can now says, “Ber ber ber” for B but still doesn’t say the name of B.

YBCR Words:

Video showing him watching the DVD with a lot of expressions. This was the fifth time it was shown. He started clapping a little when clap action is shown (didn’t catch that), and touched his nose when word ‘nose’ is shown. He laughs at Wave and videos of the animals, said, Wow wow for the animal sound of Dog. However, when he caught sight of me videoing him, he became more reserved and didn’t try to pronounce the words.

Video Showing his cute way of doing Arms Up, the first word he learnt. And also how he always stand and try to read the words in the book he is flipping. When he caught sight of me taking the video after he turned around, he stopped.

Colours

He knows Green, Yellow, Blue, Red but still confuse Orange with Red.

I got to test this by sorting colours with him using a new game I thought up on Thursday, impromptu. ‘Pick out the correct coloured Animal Counters from the bowl of animal counters and placed it into the coloured bowl I put out‘. He doesn’t always co-operate, so initially, I made the animals go through the holes and drop onto him to which he thought was hilarious. This made him happy and he started picking the animals out for me by colours. He picked them out accurately except for orange, and always one in each hand. I was surprised because though he did it correctly sometimes for sorting pom poms, or placing the animal counters on coloured squares, he seldom play for long, protesting immediately. Therefore, I have no way of testing his knowledge. From this, I knew he definitely knows green, yellow and blue. Red is still sometimes confused because he saw Orange too and couldn’t decide which. Purple also looked very similar to blue.

For the sake of the video to show, there’s no dropping out of the animals, but he still co-operated with me, following my instructions. The video shows him playing the game for the second time. I edited the video because he was playing with the counters after he has taken them out. But the video shows all first times taking out an animal counter, not repeated tries.

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