Since pre-school started, I was able to be with her classmates' parents and though I have not become an active mom in discussions, I was able to learn from the meetings that some of the kids in their class already attended nursery and was able to read and write the alphabet, and words already.
As a mom, I must admit that this gave birth to some feelings of anxiety and frustration - were we (my husband and I), wrong in not pushing our baby to attend nursery after her playschool days? Are we in fact, shortchanging her because we believe that play would be beneficial to her?
Good thing though that I was never one to wallow in self pity and doubt forever - I did what I could to create a makeshift board at home. I remembered that aunt mommy gave the kids some non toxic chalk and I felt it was time to make good use of them.
I converted our plastic, IKEA multipurpose drawers into makeshift black board and proceeded to fill it up with the alphabet and basic 1 - 10 numbers. My goal is to help familiarize my kid with the letters, so that she will not find it hard to work with letters in class.
Three weeks later - I feel so happy because our efforts were not in vain. Now she can identify the letters as well as sing them, and she's getting better at writing all the time.
I am looking forward to teaching her to discover words, and sentences and paragraphs! Words and books have always been my special escape - and I know it can be hers too.
