Sam came over to me this afternoon and demanded a paci -- the trove that scatters out each night and gets swept up, snagged out of one mouth after another up until Jonah leaves for school, to pass the day atop my monitor -- so I handed him a pencil and a paper and told him to write me a letter.
Sam wrote "I wavt th pc" (using the rare "a" "n" ligature that looks wicked like a second "w", followed by the equally rare off-the-edge-of-the-paper silent "e", and "paci", short for "pacifier", written in vowel-free form).
I was suitably impressed. I hadn't spelled out the words, and I hadn't handed him "a letter" to read to me, with one of his sight reading phrases recently. There was no modeling.
He still needs to work on fine motor.
Posted by EBW at January 5, 2005 11:20 PM | TrackBackHey, that is great!!!
They tell me at school that handwriting not important. I wish it had been that way when I was a kid, I was awful. Bug has writing issues. His printing is horrible. The cursive isn't so bad - but he never uses it and they don't require it! The teachers complain, then the district evals him for OT and they say he doesn't need it....then they complain again 6 months later....if they'd just insist on him doing cursive......(he takes his time with it so it's neater)
Then last year he got a teacher who didn't care about his handwriting. So he figures it doesn't matter, anyway.
:::::::heavy sigh::::::::
Posted by: Moi ;) at January 6, 2005 07:20 PMyay Sam!
Posted by: julia at January 7, 2005 12:20 AMMad props to Sam!
Posted by: emily at January 7, 2005 07:17 AM