reading and writing

Anna has started writing the alphabet.  Some of her letters need work, but overall she's doing a pretty good job!  She's also gotten into asking how words are spelled.  She can spell cat, owl, mommy, Anna, Luke, Da, Batman, stop, go, bat, no and maybe other things on her own.  

We had never asked Anna to write her first and last name before but she could spell it, so I gave it a try.  She did this all by herself without help with what letter came next or how to write the letters or anything!  Our last name is not easy, so I thought it was pretty good.

Lukey loves school and has brought home some cool projects.  This was one of our favorites.  Its about who lives in his house with him.  He wrote most of it himself (obviously not the part that the teacher wrote under his words) but said he needed help with how to spell 'sister'.  It's nice that this year he likes to draw.  Last year he didn't have much interest in drawing things.