Labeling

This morning Brielle and I wanted to have our own "preschool" and I decided that we would label different things in our house so that she would start seeing the words with each object and hopefully start to learn them. It started off great as we labeled "prophets, bed and nose" in her bedroom. I made the sound of each letter and she would tell me what letter made that sound and I would write it. She would then run and hang it up.

Then it got even better. Brielle said she wanted to label Bear's hand next and said she would write it. I consented, wondering how it would turn out. Here it is:

H - A - N (that is the letter that is "colored in") - D.

She did it all by herself. She actually wrote a "big H (one that filled the whole card)" on the the other side first and when we determined that an "A" came next she said "I don't want a big H" and turned the card over and made a smaller one. Needless to say, I was impressed! Next she wanted to label bear's foot:

F - O - "I already did an O. Oh, there is two? giggle, giggle" O - T. Amazing! Then came bear's bow:Brielle:"Circle?"

Mom: "Line, circle, circle"

Brielle: "Oh, line, circle, circle (B) - O - W."

E - She couldn't remember what a big Y looked like and started looking around the room for a prompt (We are only on the letter S in preschool, so we haven't studied Y yet). We found a book that had a big Y in the title and she started to copy it. She made that first line then tried to erase it with her hand. It wasn't what she wanted I guess, so she started again and wrote a Y - E

T - U - M - M - Y Way to go Brielle! You did a fabulous job!

What a fun preschool! Who knew our 3 year old could write so well? It just has to be her idea I guess because when I have tried to encourage her to do it in the past she hasn't wanted to.