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.

Well, we were instructed to only sign the kid's name, to make it easier
to hand out. (And each kid ended up with one from themselves, which
was amusing!) Ds (4.5 yrs) has only recently been able to recognizably
sign his name, and since the cards are so small, I dotted it in for him
to help him out. (That's how his teachers have been doing it, so they
start by tracing the dots.) He only wanted to do a few, so I ended up
finishing them for him, since he had 20. I think that ended up being
typical (well, maybe not the using of the dots) since about half of the
ones he got had parental type writing.

At age 3, ds had not started writing at all, and really didn't express
much interest in letters until about when he turned 4, when he started
recognizing things like R because it was on all of his Rescue Hero
toys, and pointing it out on signs. Only very recently has he started
to get the idea that the letter is related to the sound it makes, like
in the past month or so.

What surprised *me* about the valentines he received, is that they all
came with candy or a pencil or something! I'd brought in a box of
cookies for the party (as suggested on the handout I'd received), but
it never occurred to me to put candy or something with the actual
cards. Is this getting to be typical?

Irene

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