writing

This was in Anya's folder at preschool yesterday. Usually, the older kids write their first names on whatever they work on. Apparently, Anya was in the mood to write her whole name. I found this interesting because we never specifically taught her how to spell her last name. I guess she saw it written down on mail enough times to know it, or perhaps she sounded it out on her own. Her teacher said she did it completely on her own, without help from anyone.

I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised. She's made a jump in her reading and writing over the last few months and is quite interested in both. She reads through the beginning BOB books somewhat quickly and now sometimes sounds out letters in her head and just reads the words aloud (as opposed to always sounding each letter out loud and figuring out the word at the end). And when in the mood, she's decent at taking longer words and breaking them down to read them. She gets her b's and d's confused often, as well as th and ch, but I think she's doing an awesome job and we're thrilled to help her at this age as long as she's really interested in pursuing it. I know I didn't start reading and writing until at least Kindergarten, so more power to her.