Writing writing and more writing

Writing writing and more writing
I have been finding more and more notes and stories and letters around the house and her room, where she has written a story and illustrated it, or written a letter to a friend. Her printing is legible (if a tad messy) but sometimes when she is writing slowly and for someone else, she will have lovely penmenship. She is really growing in her ability to spell. I am finding this to be true more and more because she is emailing on a regular basis. Her friend Lilah (who I am sure you will hear loads about this year) has been emailing her. This has led to Kaya emailing her older sister and her mom on a regular basis! Kaya loves the little red flags in her mailbox and spends much time composing emails. Sometimes she figures out a word on her own, sometimes she asks for help. I know she is using all sorts of strategies because I hear her sounding out loud on a regular basis (just yesterday she asked how to spell 'finally'). When she asks me for help, she usually says 'is this how you spell ____? and then she spells it for me (probably she knows I will ask her how she thinks it is spelled before I tell her!). So this week she asked me how to spell recipe, and she spelled it 'REICPE'. What is interesting about this is that it shows that knows what letters are in the word - she has that part memorized, because if you sound it out, you don't get REICPE! Just another spelling strategy right there.