Sophia Alexander drew a circle this morning! Then she turned around, looked at me, and announced CIRC. She's been saying the word so that doesn't surprise me, but she actually drew one or maybe even a few! She drew the larger ones on the top portion of the page and my single CIRC is the smaller, darker one.
My kid is a genius and I attribute it to the following: my own hard work, music class, My Gym and Barney (unfortunately). I'll explain...(1) I've been working with her on shapes for months. (2) In music class she would draw a note in front of the class each week with Ms. Virginia.(circle, stem, color it in, etc...) (3) At the beginning of each My Gym class we have to sit around the enormous red circle in the carpet and do our exercises and songs. Last week Sophia literally did forward rolls all the way around the circle and then dizzily stood up only to fall over. She got a kick out of that. (4) Barney. Yes, Barney does talk about shapes in some of his DVDs, but honestly, I think he mainly focuses on Triangle.
THE NINES
Another story to prove my theory that Sophia is a genius. Nancy, my mom's good friend, gave Sophia a wooden puzzle and she's recently been playing with it quite a bit. When a piece is removed from the puzzle it empty number space shows that number of objects. For instance: nine soccer balls, one pencil, five bowling pins, etc.
When we're upstairs together, Sophia is usually playing in her room and running back and forth into whatever room I'm in to check in on me or to tell/show me something. Last week while I was putting on makeup in my bathroom Sophia ran in to show me NINES and she was holding the 6 and the 9. NO WAY! I couldn't believe what she brought to me! Part of me thought it was a very strange coincidence that she had picked up 2 numbers that could both pass for being a 9 and call them NINES. I decided I would "test" her later to see if she produced both 9s again. Minutes later she brought me the 1 and the 7! She didn't call them anything, but UM, they could be twins in real life, right????!
The answer to the NINES question is YES! She knows that 9 is a 9 and that a 6 is also a 9.
This past weekend when she ran to Will with her NINES he had the exact same awestruck feeling/look that I did!
GREEN
This one is definitely, probably, maybe a coincidence, but I'm on a roll.
Sophia's been really interested in colors lately and knows that Moe has red hair and that BOP carries around a yellow BANKY (blanket). She also is starting to call green things GEEN, but I've also heard her label blue and white things GEEN too. We'll see. Colors are next, it's just a matter of time. She repeats almost all of them and yesterday she tried an ORANGE for the first time and then said it. Some other favorites seem to be PINK, BOO, REH, PURPLE
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