Re: UPDATE: Re: valentine's day


Hillary Israeli wrote:
So, my son came home with a big bag of valentines the other day. He's in
preK - 5 yrs old. I was really QUITE shocked to see that of the 12
valentines, only five or six of them had anything but the sender's name
written in the child's own hand! I know one said "Love, Sender;" and a few
had my son's name and the sender's name in the sender's handwriting; the
remaining half simply had the sender's name in the kid's writing and my
son's name in adult writing. Is this typical of this age? Because my son's
cards that he sent all said "Dear Recipient-name," and "Love, Jacob" in
his own writing (I wrote "Happy Valentine's Day" on them). In fact, the
cards my 3 yr old insisted on writing ALSO said "Dear Recipient-name," and
"Love, Naomi" on them - although her letters did not line up nearly as
evenly as my son's did, and on occasion her name had to wrap to the next
line - but come to think of it, at least three of the cards my son got had
his name looking like:

J A C
O B

so there you go :). I knew my son was somewhat advanced with respect to
his alphabet recognition and so on before school started, but I really
thought by now he would be more in the middle of the pack. It SHOCKED me
that my 3 yr old's cards looked "better" than most of the cards my son
brought home. I had been thinking she was not so advanced as her brother
was at this age.

It just took me by surprise.

Wow -- I would say your son is doing quite well w/r/t fine motor
control. For pre-K (4-5 yo here generally, although 4 is K in
Cambridge..sigh), writing a first name is considered great.

My 3yo (as of January) can't even hold a pencil correctly (she still
has the whole-hand grip), so I have to admit, I'm impressed with your
daughter too!

Caledonia

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