Early childhood: Alphabets and numbers

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Young children around me whom I know quite well, learn the alphabets and numbers without difficulty. The little girl, who lives across from our house, managed to recognize letters from A to Z when she was still two years old. So did Rania.

Special thanks to Ayuta (my nephew) for giving us such an entertaining way to learn the alphabets. We inherited a little desk from Ayuta and it has been in our house for 15 years now. Ninta was the first one who inherited it, then we passed it on to Aqmal, and to Rania subsequently.

What's so special about the desk? It's just an ordinary bench with a table, but it  also has a list of alphabets and numbers on its top surface.

When Rania was about two years old, she used to climb up the  table. Her little fingers would point to each of the letters and numbers, then asked me to spell them. She would do it again and again every day.
A few days later, I tested her. I spelled an alphabet or a number first then asked her to show me which one it was. She passed!!!

Two years afterward, Rania still loves her desk though she never climbs it up anymore. She sits on  the chair nicely. I often sit next to her and use the desk together to do our home learning activities. We color, draw, play, paste stickers or read.

We also listened to the The ABC song. It became Rania's favorite song and can be downloaded from youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XEN4vtH4Ic
or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fw3l1z9CUQ&NR=1

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