making words

For some time now, Hudson has really taken a great interest in writing. As we've talked about before, he has been loving preschool and developing nicely over the past two years. Over that time, through learning each letter in class, doing "[super cute] preschool homework" and working with him at home, he has really been growing in this area.

A common practice for preschool/kindergarten-age children is to label common household items so children can begin developing literacy skills by recognizing vocabulary by sight. So, last week we came up with the idea to label some items in his room with Post-It Notes, but with a twist...allowing HIM to do it! This was so much fun and a great learning experience!

He wrote all of these completely on his own! We used several strategies for making these words. For some notes, we said the word first and spelled it out while he wrote each letter. For some, we would make the letter sound for each letter in the word and from the sound, he would identify and write each letter. For others we simply spelled out the word, and after he wrote it, helped him identify the letter sounds and blends in the word. Other times, we'd spell the word and then we'd ask him where he thoughtthe Post-It note should go and we would find that he would stick it in the correct areaof his room. So, so fun and we are so proud of him! :)