More on writing
So I hinted at this in the last entry but now I want to elaborate because it simply amazes me.As we've already covered I'm sure ad nauseum, Logan had learned his letters around 13 months old. He wasn't reciting them in order, but he could identify all of them. You can ask him to find the "A", for example, and he would. OR you could point to a letter and say "what's this?" too which he'd provide the correct answer.
Lately (he's 21 months now) he's been singing the Alphabet song. He can do it completely through, totally correct. Usually though he gets so excited about his two favorite letters (O and P) that he skips ahead just to say louder than the rest "Ooooooooooooo P!" then he'll continue along until he reaches his next favorite part - the end "Now ABC, next with me. YAY!"
Now, this child is trying his darnest to write his letters. He so wants to! He loves to color and his newest fasicination is getting a hold of a pen to go with his paper. When given the chance to have one, he'll flop on his belly, legs kicked up behind up bouncing up and down, crossed at the ankle. He sticks his tongue out to the side sometimes - the same way I do when I'm concetrating hard on something - and starts to make small, deliberate scribbles on his paper. I'd think nothing of it except when he does this - he recites the alphabet. Yes, those small, deliberate marks he's making is an attempt to write his letters. He can actually make a sloppy O and C purposely. He's also been known to write "A", "T", "G" and "L" quite by accident...but when he does, he recognizes this jagged lumpy mark for the letter it resembles and yells out proudly "I draw A!" He can recognize his name when its written out and usually he can pick out the words "Daddy", "Mommy", and "Zoom". Sometimes he'll make a series of scribbles and announce that he's just written his name.
He asks us to write "ABCs" a lot now. So we do. Leaving space on the page for him to try it out himself. He tries instead to trace over our letters - usually now it looks more like he's trying to color the letters in as its the same series of scribbled over lines that he uses when he colors in the pictures he asks us to draw for him. But you see the look on his face and its so obvious that he's really wanting to mimic those lines that form those letters. Sometimes he gets it - on a few letters mainly.
This is the way he's learned everything else to date - he starts focusing on it and he keeps with it until he figures it out. When he learned his letters to start it was just a few and he wasn't consistant - then it was more...and then it was all. When he learned to count he'd go from 1 to 10 in 4 numbers. ;) When he learned his colors everything was blue or green for a while. I just sit back in amazement and think that this could be writing his name by his birthday if he follows his track record.
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10:06 AM
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