{"id":7019,"date":"2018-03-31T14:58:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T19:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplyseptember.com\/?p=7019"},"modified":"2019-08-07T15:56:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T20:56:26","slug":"how-to-easily-teach-your-child-their-letters-and-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplyseptember.com\/staging\/2018\/03\/31\/how-to-easily-teach-your-child-their-letters-and-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Easily Teach Your Child Their Letters and Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

While it may seem like only yesterday your little ones were learning to take their first steps; believe it or not, it may be time for them to conquer their letters and numbers -OR- ABCs and 123s! While every child is different, many report their child either expressing interest or being able to recite the alphabet and numbers by the time they are a mere two years old. On the flip side, many other parents share their children are not ready or able to appropriately recite knowledge of this information until four years of age. Regardless of your child’s individual abilities and timeline, it is best to be prepared to help them throughout their learning process.<\/p>\n

Feeling overwhelmed? Not sure how to go about teaching this very important information?<\/p>\n

Don’t worry, teaching a child to both recall and recite their alphabet and numbers can not only be quite easy, but also quite fun in the process!<\/p>\n

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Our Story<\/h4>\n

Shortly after my daughter turned three she began expressing an interest in identifying more and more letters of the alphabet. In fact, she would grow quite frustrated when there was one she didn’t know and would come to me for identification of a letter time and time again. This same process repeated itself until one day I turned to Google for a brief search, “when should a child be able to identify the letters of the alphabet?”<\/p>\n

Like a punch to the gut I was shocked to learn that many children (even a year younger than my daughter) were already identifying their letters and numbers. Having not gone through this important milestone before (she being my oldest child), I naively assumed that she would pick up on these skills in preschool, etc. and we would work on them in more detail on a later time (perhaps when she was a bit older). After all, she already knew how to sing her ABCs, did she also need to know how to identify them separately as well?… wasn’t she JUST learning to potty train?! Needless to say, I was wrong. While there is no use pushing a child to learn a skill when they are not yet ready, my daughter was clearly showing me all the signs that she wanted to learn and I needed to get on board… and QUICK!<\/p>\n

Not sure where to best start (other than with standard flash cards), I turned to the pros (a.k.a. seasoned mamas) and asked for their advice in my “Creative Mamas! Facebook Group<\/a>“. Within no time, I had a game plan full of highly recommended creative strategies to implement into our learning process.<\/p>\n

Over the course of the next couple of weeks we implemented an “alphabet and letter learning” game plan and got to work. Within no time, a mere couple of weeks to be exact, my daughter had every last letter and number memorized and we celebrated with an “ABC-123 pizza party” at Pizza Ranch (per her request ;)).<\/p>\n

Our Exact Strategy to Learning Letters and Numbers<\/h4>\n

While every individual learns differently, I felt it best in this particular situation to literally surround my daughter in a world of letters and numbers. My goal was to educate (in a fun way!) throughout every moment of the day so that she didn’t feel like there were set “forced” learning moments… instead it would become a fun new way of life.<\/p>\n

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