R-U-B-Y

Hello again, folks! I hope you are enjoying your summer! It's been pretty nice here, all in all. I love warm weather! I love to sit out in the sun and read! But, enough about me. I tutor a little girl named Ruby, who is only three years old. She is still learning to identify the letters of the alphabet, and while we do play a matching game with all the letters, I'm really focusing on the letters in her name. R-U-B-Y. I show her a letter and ask her what it is. I show her an R and she says A. So I show her what an A looks like and then show her the R again. I tell her it's the first letter of her name (which I have done many times, telling her it's an R.) I ask her what letter it is, and she says B. So I show her the B. I tell her it's a B. Then I show her an R again. I say, "It's the first letter in your name. R for Ruby." Then I ask her what comes next, and she says "woo" (U.) I show her the U and put it next to the R. Then I point to th...