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Usually, every other Saturday to Sunday, I
get the pleasure of a visit from my Granddaughter Ingrid, whom you’ve read
about in other posts. She was three in
April.
Ingrid and I do lots of things when she visits and I’ve written about some of them, and lately, because of all the reading aloud, looking at books together, being in
pre-school all year, Ingrid has become interested in writing. She can recognize all of her letters, and
write some of them, mostly those with straight lines. Her father teaches her lots of songs that are
real, and they listen to music together, things like The Sound of Music.
Her mother makes up little rhyming songs for her about everything. I have added
more books to Ingrid’s experience, but mostly I think my addition to her
literacy is that we’ve looked at things and noticed details about them.