Over the weekend Mason and I decided to try and be a little more pro-active in helping Ava learn to write a bit. She knows her letters and can recognize her name, so we started with that. Yesterday morning before Mason left for work, he tried to help Ava write her name. She of course, being the almost-4-year-old that she is, refused to copy the letters. Mason went to collect his gear for work, then Ava approached him with her piece of paper. He asked her if she practiced the letters, and she said she had. He then looked at the paper, but instead of seeing the letters "A-V-A," he saw what looked like an "H" and then a picture. When asked what they were, Ava replied, "H-Boot! My name is H-Boot!!" Mason then just rolled his eyes, and had a bit of a laugh.
Fast forward to that evening at dinner. Mason told me that we needed to get creative in helping her to want to write. I told him that she will practice her letters in preschool - and I even showed him her papers that she brought home earlier that day. It was full of "M's" and "N's" that Ava had practiced. Up at the top of the paper however, Mason noticed something. The teachers all write the students' names at the top in dotted letters so they can practice writing them. On Ava's paper however, next to her dotted name was - you guessed it - "H-Boot!"
Mason was just speechless, LOL!
4 comments:
Ava gets an A+ for creativity!
We got an activity book from Target or Walmart that was age appropriate for 3 & 4 yr olds, and it had letter-tracing in it, and Thomas loved it. (just sharing, I'm sure Ava will learn to write when she's ready!)
that's hilarious :)
Wow, I'm speechless too! Who thinks of that, seriously. I always wonder how those little people's minds work. What are they thinking in those little noggins?
That's hilarious that she had repeated it more than once.
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