Writing

R's new thing is writing. She loves writing and lately has been sounding out words and writing out sentences. Here is one of her latest. I want to emphasize that she did this with zero help or input from anyone else: she is sounding out and writing down the letters she wants to write.

Her class has been talking a lot about healthy bodies and related to that theme, doctors and nurses and other health care professionals. Today at school they worked on making eye charts, and this is what she drew on the back of her eye chart.

If you look closely, the sentence she said she wrote was, "There are so many eyes you can't even count them." The sentence starts with TAR and ends on the next line with AOT TM. Click on the picture to make it bigger and easier to see the letters.

Learning Letters

Whenever R and I color she tells me what to draw. Today it was babies, but in the past it's been "circle, right here, right here" or "tiagle" or "dat" or "duck", always with a finger pointing to the spot where she wants the drawing done. Then she usually proceeds to color on or in the thing I have just drawn.

Sometimes I sneak in my own drawings alongside the things I've been commanded to draw. The other day I drew an "R" and told R it was "R" for R_____. I've done that a few times now, and she now says "R for R_____" while pointing to herself whenever I ask her what it is.

Today I added in "M" for Mommy and "D" for Daddy. She gets them! I think.

I haven't given her a pop quiz yet but maybe I'll get her to take one tomorrow.