Xander has exploded onto the writing scene all of a sudden. On Thursday, when I picked him up from school, I saw the sweetest art display in the hallway outside of his classroom, where his teachers had written the names of all of the children in their class and the kids had tried to write their names above the teacher-written names. I was totally floored to see that Xander had written his name!!!
He’s been working on writing different letters here and there since this summer, but this was the first time I’d seen him write more than one letter in succession. I guess when it clicks…it clicks. (His preschool teachers started the Handwriting Without Tears curriculum this semester.) It’s funny how things go…I had just picked up a HWT workbook and flip crayons from our preschool director a few weeks ago and talked with her about Xander’s learning style. She had some brilliant suggestions for working with his personality including letting him try letter writing on cookie sheets filled with salt or shaving cream, chalkboards, dry erase boards, or magnetic boards because they’re not as committal and permanent and intimidating as pencil and paper. Amazingly enough…without having even talked with Tom about it…he brought home a combination chalkboard/dry erase board easel that afternoon that he found on free cycle for the boys. And they are all having a blast with it…Xander especially. Here he is with a few things he came up with this weekend:
