Vincent is a very smart little dude. We started teaching him sign language using Signing Time DVDs when he was 6 months old. He made his first sign, more, at 8 months. He now knows how to sign and recognize the signs for well over 100 words.
He learned his alphabet by 18 months.
Since then we have noticed he likes groupings, lists, and repetition.
He learns things very fast. At 2.5 years old he can count to 30 on his own. He also knows his alphabet/numbers by sight, his colors, and shapes. When he plays he always includes the shapes, colors, and numbers.
When we go out he reads all the numbers he sees.
This is always fun in the store. There are numbers everywhere; the license plates in the parking lot, the price tags, the isle numbers, the check-out line. These things seem to make him happy. We are amazed and amused. He has created funny little systems for everything.
I have made him my own little science project and enjoy testing his learning capabilities. I got him a DVD series called Preschool Prep when I wanted to teach him shapes. He watched the movie 3 times and learned all the basic shapes including oval and octagon.
They also have 3 DVDs that teach “sight words”. These words are important building blocks when learning to read. Vin has watched these videos several times and can recognize them in their cartoonish form on the screen. Today I wanted to find out if he could recognize the words out of the context of the video. I printed out all 18 words from the first DVD on single sheets and gave them to him to play with.
He thought it was a ton of fun and has been playing with his words for over 2 hours. I took a video so that you can see for yourself. He is pretty impressive, if I do say so myself!
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