Practice Practice

Tessa's been trying to master a couple of things...like playing computer games by herself. There are many on pbskids.org that are age appropriate for her. For a long time Jeremy would play with her, but nowadays she likes to try herself.

Luckily, Charley is happy to just sit alongside and watch. Most of the games are some kind of sorting and mastery of the mouse by matching or choosing things in answer to questions (like..click on the shoe that is blue). She is actually really good with the mouse.

Jeremy said he thought that in this generation, kids will be expected to have a good handle on some computer skills by age 4. Crazy right? But I guess we can check that off the list.

We've also been working on her name. Her teacher at preschool said by the time they move up to the pre-K class they should be able to write their name and use scissors well.

I don't know if it's normal or not but Tessa can't seem to master her name. She'll write a T in one corner of the page, and a couple SS's in another corner. Writing in a line and in order totally escapes her.

So I printed some tracing pages from kidzone. I printed 10 copies so we can do one every day and just keep drilling it. I made some for Rachel too, but she breezed right through them no problem.
Coloring in the lines, well that may simply be asking too much.