This week I took Kiefer to Storytime at the local Library. It is an hour or un-parented story and craft time in a classroom setting for kids aged 3-5.
The teacher was phenomenal; she read stories and helped them do some crafts. One of the crafts was coloring an owl picture. The teacher gave them crayons, glue and tissue paper to decorate the owl. I made a big deal of the picture to Kiefer and told him how great it was, but it really didn't look that remarkable. It had some green crayon on it, 2 pieces of tissue paper, a whole bunch of glue and some scribbles.
The scribbles on the piece of paper looked deliberate to me though. I asked him what the scribbles were and he kept saying "owl" over and over again. Then he clearly sounded out to me the sounds of A and L. Sure enough his scribbles were an "a" and backwards "L". Get it? A-L? (Owl???) He was sounding out owl and figured it was an "A"and an "L". It makes a whole lot of sense to a 3 year old to spell it that way!
I was so surprised he was able to compute that and I am so proud! Not bad for a recently turned 3 year old!
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