Sarah's first book

Sarah's first attempt to publish her own book.

She has been making attempts to write letters, copy words (both English and Chinese characters) on random scraps of paper.

2 weeks ago, I've prepared some small booklets so that she can start writing in them like the 'Letter Getter' series.

I read a friend's blog http://Motherkao.com/improve-childrens-writing-at-lorna-whiston/ and picked up some ideas on how to get Sarah started on more purposeful writing.

Since she is only 4 years and 4 months old, I assisted her by telling her that we are going to write a book about numbers.

The theme 'bugs' was chosen to align with the school's theme.

She named the bugs that she has learnt in school and I wrote the words using a highlighter.

But getting her to trace over the words it also helps with penmanship.

After tracing the letters, we run through the words again to reinforce word recognition.

Then she started drawing the next day.

It's quite a big project for a 4 year old, after 2 hours. She was exhausted so we took another day to colour the pictures.

She is most confident in recognizing the last 2 Chinese characters - 'Kun Chong' which means bugs in Chinese.