Home Schooling, Early Years: Writing the Letter to Santa , Joining Letters Compulsory

We started to prepare to write the present request to Santa. Oliver was very keen to start on this and tried very hard.  He's not really ready to join letters or write long words yet, in my opinion, but it's a shame not to capitalise on such festive opportunity, especially seeing that he's very interested is very proud of his work on finishing.

I'm trying to talk him through the commonalities that there are in joining letters, as, I think , in a long run it will help him to write quicker and clearer and will, also stop the need to unlearn later. It's amazing how quickly a child can fall into useless wrong patterns with his writing, for no apparent reason!

This is, actually, the first vaguely 'classic' things we've done in our HE.

There are times O just tells me 'I'm not doing studying' ( which is not an option as it's part of our routine, but I do tend to leave it for a bit and come back to it, if he's determined).  However, as often he actually asks me if he can do 'Studying'.  It's so cute, and very dear. The fact that children, at this young an age are already very keen learners, does resonate here.