Lola's Powerful Memory
Lola has quite the mimic's ear and she captures songs and books after just a few repetitions. She frequently sits down with books, recites the words from the page, and "reads" to herself. Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas, The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, The Horse in Harry's Room by Syd Hoff, Llama Llama Misses Mama by Anna Dewdney, and A Good Day by Kevin Henkes are regular "Lola reads." We've had a fair number of parent reads on those, so it's no surprise that she can do them solo. What's more impressive is that we read her a few library books two times and then she was reciting those too! It's incredibly cute to watch, and she's so proud of herself each time.
Lola's ear also helps her with music. Lola LOVES to sing and it's one of my fail-safe "Distract the child before she goes into total meltdown" strategies. Her go-to songs are standard kid classics like "Old MacDonald Had a Farm," the ABC song, "Head Shoulders Knees and Toes," "Little Bumblebee," "Itsy Bitsy Spider," "If you're happy and you know it," "Clean up!" and "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." Clearly she's getting those reinforced at daycare, but she's brought home some others that she belts out at frequent occasions. There's a Halloween song that has all her classmates names in it, there's a Turkey song, a Days of the Week song, a Wash Your Hands song .... there's a pre-school song for every occasion! The most impressive for me is that she sings a song about colors in Spanish -- the same one that Raina learned in JK and sang a few times around the house. I can only presume Lola picked that song up from Raina and it means that Lola recites her colors in two languages. "That block is gris, gray!" Lola told me today. Yes, indeedy.
Lola joined the Two's daycare room in late December and she turned two in late February. We were surprised (and pleased) that daycare moved her up early. They are planning to move her into the Three's room in August, a full 5.5 months ahead of her actual third birthday. The daycare teachers keep pointing out that she's super smart but more it's that she has a super memory. Here's hoping that spelling words and multiplication facts stick just as easily for her!
Lola's ear also helps her with music. Lola LOVES to sing and it's one of my fail-safe "Distract the child before she goes into total meltdown" strategies. Her go-to songs are standard kid classics like "Old MacDonald Had a Farm," the ABC song, "Head Shoulders Knees and Toes," "Little Bumblebee," "Itsy Bitsy Spider," "If you're happy and you know it," "Clean up!" and "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." Clearly she's getting those reinforced at daycare, but she's brought home some others that she belts out at frequent occasions. There's a Halloween song that has all her classmates names in it, there's a Turkey song, a Days of the Week song, a Wash Your Hands song .... there's a pre-school song for every occasion! The most impressive for me is that she sings a song about colors in Spanish -- the same one that Raina learned in JK and sang a few times around the house. I can only presume Lola picked that song up from Raina and it means that Lola recites her colors in two languages. "That block is gris, gray!" Lola told me today. Yes, indeedy.
Lola joined the Two's daycare room in late December and she turned two in late February. We were surprised (and pleased) that daycare moved her up early. They are planning to move her into the Three's room in August, a full 5.5 months ahead of her actual third birthday. The daycare teachers keep pointing out that she's super smart but more it's that she has a super memory. Here's hoping that spelling words and multiplication facts stick just as easily for her!
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