Notes

I am now in  the habit of leaving post-it notes on our front door when I know that Phoebe is coming round. It's about encouraging her to read and maybe have a little unexpected fun too.

She is only five and in her first year at primary school so these are very early days in the growth of her literacy.

A couple of weeks ago, I left this note on our front door.

When Phoebe read it she was a little outraged and said that I wasn't the best. There was a bit of play actig going on too.  Then she grabbed the post-it notes and bustled in to the front room where she picked up a pen and crouched in order to write this:-

If you cannot decipher it immediately, let me help you. It says, "Everybody is the best in my family". It was a kind of protest in defence of her entire family. How could Grandpa on his own be "the best"? That was not right and in her little five year old mind she briefly  felt she was standing up for justice.

I love that note.

By the way, Phoebe is left-handed like her father  and left-handedness does not assist in the acquisition and mastery of writing skills in this right-handed world. However, as you can see - she's very much on the road to literacy.

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