Karley is writing!

For a couple of weeks now I have been satisfying Karley's new request of "be my teacher too" with teaching her to write her name. I have small slate boards from Handwriting Without Tears that I used to teach Julia to write. With Karley I started with letter K, then A, R, etc. We haven't actually finished all the letters of her name (she really likes to do Ks over and over again), but yesterday I decided to have her try writing on paper. I gave her a piece of Handwriting Without Tears paper (grey blocks that represent the slate board). I was amazed (Julia too I think), but Karley can WRITE!!! She has always held a crayon or pencil correctly and has shown some good control, but she was able to transfer what she has learned the last couple of weeks on the slate board with chalk to the paper, which is much, much smaller writing. I also discovered that she has a bit of her father in her. She was getting mad at herself when her straight lines were not perfectly straight. She began erasing until I told her that this was practice and that there is no need for erasing when you are practicing. She filled almost all of the paper with careful, controlled and very legible letters. One of two of them I would have thought Julia had written if I had not seen Karley do it. Plus, she started branching out on her own with "new" letters. She asked me how to write an H. I looked at her paper and noticed she had both of the vertical lines already drawn! This girl can write!!!