“Look Mama, I spelled Mimi!”
I don’t make a point of correcting her, but she then asked me to spell Mimi, so I wrote it too. She examined mine carefully, and then wrote it again herself:
The two first arcs are the M.
Then she drew a banana:
And “It’s a train track. Chugga chugga chugga, choo choo!” (Complete with sound effects and arm motion!)
Wow…that’s pretty darn good. Isaac taught himself to read at 3 1/2 but has little interest in writing. Now and then he’ll do it. But for some reason he’s all about, “I can’t,” said with a whiny voice.
He asks me to draw lots of things for him and I think that this is helpful for him to see that it can be down; to put his stories into pictures. We have fun with it. A big whiteboard would be great though.