Here she wanted to practice writing her name, her dad's name and my name. She has become very interested in letters and sounds and how to spell things. Of couse we are going to keep encouraging this as it is the beginning of learning to read. She liked that all three of us had Ns in our name.
The next two photos are of a book that Ellie put together. The cover has a drawing of princesses with their feet in water. She folded up several other pages and stuck them in the book. She said she couldn't write all the words, but she wanted to show that there were words to the book.
Ellie starting to learn addition at school as well as practicing writing her numbers (she still has the fun curly 6). She says she enjoys doing the numbers and finger board (practicing addition) at school.
This s a map which she colored in. Last night when she got home, Nick helped her put the princess stickers to represent where the "live". Sleeping Beauty in SoCal (Disneyland has Sleeping Beauty's castle), Cinderella in Florida as her castle is in Disneyworld, Tianna in Louisiana, Ariel in the ocean, and Rapunzel...Ellie and Nick didn't know where she lived, but she was pretty and Ellie wanted her on the page somewhere.
At school she showed me the map she is working on. Apparently it was in progress and do where she was got saved from yesterday. Ellie says the map is one of her favorite things at school. After she does the map puzzle, she gets a sheet and colors the states to match the map that she just put together (shown above).
She brought her fancy Barbie (a gift from friends for her birthday) to school for show and tell. She was pretty excited.
Also, apparently when asked who her Valentine was...my daughter said:
What?!? Everyone else said a parent or a teacher...nobody else said an animal! Well, at least we know she was charting her own course.
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