Tonight, Jane was working on some homework from her preschool. She had to color the items that began with the letter “p”. Ron was sad that he didn’t have any homework (that won’t last long). I was able to find some worksheets on the internet that had a similar task: color the animals that start with the letter “p”. When I checked on him, I noticed he was coloring all of the animals. I decided to see if he could figure out which animals began with “p”, the conversation went something like this:
“Hey Ron, which animals start with ‘P’?”
“‘P’ is for ‘pig’!”
“What about this animal?”
“I don’t know what that is.”
“It’s a penguin. What letter does p-p-p-penguin start with?”
“‘P’!”
“What about this ‘puppy’? What letter does p-p-p-puppy start with?”
“‘D’!”
“P-p-p-puppy? Puppy starts with ‘d’?”
“Yes! Puppy starts with ‘D’”
[We went around a few times.]
“No, puppy starts with ‘p’.”
“Puppy starts with ‘d’, its ‘dog’!”