The other day I had an incredible learning moment with Lizzy. We were playing a game where Lizzy was trying to write simple words that I was saying to her. After a few rounds, I asked if she wanted to try to write a sentence. I gave her the sentence "I am mad." She wrote it (with some help) "i am mad" After a minute of looking at it, she inserted a period, and changed the little i to a big I. When I asked her about it, she told me, "some letters are little and some letters are big. And that's a dot that goes at the end." I was blown away that she had noticed so much from books, and how she was really starting to put it all together. When I gave her two more sentences, she ended one with an exclamation point, and one with a question mark. Are you kidding me? While she didn't exactly know what they were called or what they were for, she had seen them in books. Pretty observant! What was Peter doing during this idyllic moment of learning? Playing with cars and running around like a little stinker doing anything he could to be a buggy little brother. Oh well, that's how it goes, right?
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