Miss Skylar

Just wanted to do a little post about Skylar's progress.  As you know she has started her second year of preschool.  Last year she was writing her name only in capital letters.  This year they are working on writing it with upper and lower case letters.  she still mixes them up a bit, but she does well.  Here is a picture of one of her writings.

She is also starting to write her sisters name

Skylar is also getting very close to reading.  She asks to spell tons of words.  She is remembering some of them.  She tried so hard to sound out words too.  The other day she asked me what she was getting for her birthday and I told her a C-A-M-E-R-A.  (we got her a Hello Kitty digital camera of her own) She immediately started sounding it out.  She was able to say all the letters and sounds, but couldn't quite put it all together.  She's close though.  I spend my whole day spelling words for her, but I figure one day she will catch on. 

Skylar is also getting much better at remembering songs.  Last year she really struggled with remembering songs and rhymes.  This year she comes home almost every day singing a new song.  Also tonight she was watching An American Tail (Fivel) for the first time in well over a year.  I don't think she's ever really watched it.  She came to the dinner table singing 2 of the songs from the movie, and she did a pretty good job with the words.  I was impressed. 

Skylar has really enjoyed learning about Fall.  They take walks outside and talk about the trees and leaves.  They gather leaves to make pictures with.  She just loves preschool.  Here are some of her other projects from school. 

Skylar is also making great strides in her swimming lessons.  Tonight we took the girls swimming and she actually swam a bit for me.  We were actually in the baby pool so it was only 1'6", but she put her head under, kicked and went a few feet.  I think she may be swimming by the cruise, at least a little bit.