Re: UPDATE: Re: valentine's day


"Hillary Israeli" <hillary@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

At my kids' school, Valentines are "assigned" the first few years. They
are required to write not only their names and their friends' names, but
also a sentence describing them -- something nice. DS wrote things
like, "You keep your desk really neat." "You are a fast runner." and
"You are my best friend." Now that he's in second grade, he powered
through the Valentine's pretty quickly, but as a kindergartener, it was
a *long* project, and took days to complete since he could only do
a few at a time before getting really tired.

Sloppy handwriting is more the norm than the exception in Kindergarten.
And many kids still write very large letters, making it hard to fit their
names on those tiny cards that all the stores sell. I had a really hard
time finding any this year that didn't have stuff printed all over the
back so that DS could fit his sentences.

Bizby


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