Your 3-Year-Old: A Is for Aaron

A Is for Aaron

Often, the first letter a child learns is the first letter of his name. ("Hey! There's my A!") When he later recognizes his entire name, he's not so much reading it as he is identifying that those symbols mean his name. Symbol recognition, of course, is essential for reading. But before he can learn the sounds of the letters, he has to make the mental leap to understanding that those squiggles and lines stand for ideas.
呵呵！雖然我們不是美國人，沒有用英文聽說讀寫，但小馨的發展歷程與同齡的外國小孩是一樣的！小馨也會認字了！她可以認得她的entire name，就從接她放學時她可以找到自己的書包這件事，就可以證明！
約有半年了吧！剛開始很訝異她會認自己的名字，後來老師才說為了讓他們有秩序，因此有教導他們認名字、也給每個人編號，現在他們都能很守秩序...

Your 3-Year-Old Now:
Your child may or may not know how to write his name. But you can prime the pump by letting him see his name in lots of places. Often 3-year-olds recognize the letters (or just the first letter) of their name. They can't yet "read," but this kind of symbol recognition is a key pre-reading skill.
Objects around the house decorated with your child's name give him a thrill every time he "reads" them. You can buy puzzles with the letters of his name, for example, or put a nameplate on his door. These things also give him a sense of ownership and individuality.
在家裡任何地方貼上她的名字？其實學校裡已經讓她認識字了，家裡不需要再貼，不過家裡是有許多姓名標籤，她的物品（水壺、書本..)有些會貼姓名標籤，她就知道那是她的東西。
不過我們不是外國人，沒有拼音，因此英文字母對她來說是陌生的，不像美國人拿字母來教小孩認字，尤其外國小孩看到自己名字的拼音字母，會有親切感...

Ask him to find things in the environment with his letter. Tad can find trees, trucks, and trains and Sarah can find socks, signs, and scissors.
Tad is for trees,trucks....外國小孩就是這樣認識自己的名字吧！小馨的名字比較少在雜誌或書報中出現，但她應該認識「林」，呵呵。

Your Life Now:
Your child is probably constantly amazing you with his new abilities to work puzzles and identify shapes and colors. This is a year of great strides in working with academic building blocks. But what if you feel your preschooler is not just bright, but so advanced he's gifted? Should you have his IQ tested?
小馨最近的確比較會玩積木了！尤其這個月生日，收到了兩種積木玩具，除了小lego實在太小、不好組裝，她的手指精密度還無法勝任外，其他大shape的積木都玩得很好！

The answer is that it's too soon to bother. Intelligence tests are not particularly valid before age 5 or so, and there's not much that you could do with the results anyway. A gifted 3-year-old essentially needs the same kinds of stimulation and enrichment that his peers do: new experiences, free play, exposure to lots of language, and a wide variety of stuff to play with.
四歲小孩的智商？我不會擔心這個，小馨是個很「正常」的小孩，到了什麼階段會有什麼反應，她都有照正常程序發展，不過這裡說到，五歲時才能看出她的天賦異秉，現在只要能繼續給她刺激與環境、足夠的語言環境去說、去表達...這樣就可以了！