Alyssa comes home from school each day full of energy. I hear other kids that are pooped, in a daze. Alyssa is the opposite. Ethan thinks that school is so stimulating for her that she is almost on a high while she is there. She enjoys almost every moment. She loves to learn. And loves to show you what she has learned. She has always been bright. Knowing her letters and sounds and writing at age 3. Sounding out words as early as 4. Now at 5 with some real training, she is picking up on reading and writing so easy. I would say I am impressed, but honestly I am not. After school today, she sits right down by me and begins writing sentences. They teach them to sound out the word and write the sounds they hear – even if it is just the first and last sounds. She has a little bit of her mom in her and is constantly asking if that is how you spell something. So it is hard for her to write it down knowing it may be wrong. But she is doing great. See how well you do:

This is a “sneaky e”. He goes over and tickles the other vowel and makes him say his name – “i”.

I love my family. She says it is “lie” because she knows how to spell Julie and they both sound the same.

The AT word family

Tired of me asking her things, she writes: I can’t write any more words.

And once more, because I asked her to write it on another sheet of paper so I could scan it in. This one of course, she got right.