It's no secret that one of our little boys is a little bit obsessed with his letters. He's known them for quite some time, and he actually wanders around the house spelling things pretty much all day long. His favorite shows on PBS, Word World and Super Why, are where he picks up most of the words he knows how to spell.
Sometimes I think most of it is scripting. Because when he gets in one of his spelling moods, he often spells a series of words that go together (or are used together on a particular episode of the above shows). Things like "truck," "car," "boat," and "train" all in rapid succession. The words don't necessarily relate to anything you're doing or watching. They just come at random.
Today was different. Today my spell boy took one look at a real item, in this particular case a guitar sitting out in a house we were visiting, and he spelled the word "guitar" simply from memory. It was there. And so were the words "tuba" and "drum," which are from that same group on a particular episode.
But still. He spelled the word of the item that he wanted to play with at that exact moment. He was communicating, in his very own unique way. That's my boy.
