wants to be like big sister
 she likes to put Ellie's shoes on because they are bigger and easier to get on.


and go to school.

They were finishing up the color red and as you can see the assignment was to draw something red.  Ellie happened to be wearing her favorite red, white, and blue skirt with the matching red shirt--notice Mrs. Malia's note at the bottom. 

They have also been doing a lot of tracing activities to get ready for writing and Monday's tracing was circles.  When I asked about this assignment she smiled and said, "We were making circles so I gave the doggie some treats and the people some food."  Note they are all circles.

Now Ellie has been able to write her name since she was 2.  The last few months she has been exploring the difference between upper and lower case letters so when she writes her name it can have any combination of upper and lower case.  I once mentioned that the only upper case letter in a name should be the first letter, but never really pushed the issue--I figured eventually it would work itself out like the capital E with several extra lines (you remember).  Well today Mrs. Malia was helping them write their names correctly and Ellie said, "My Mom told me that at home once."  It will be interesting to see how she writes her name on her work next week.

Her favorite obstacle course this week.

When she saw this little boy coming she turned around and started reaching for his hand.  I thought she was going to shove his hand or something possessive like that so I asked her to leave him alone and keep coming.  When the boy finally grabbed the bar she nodded, clapped, and then continued forward .  I guess she was only trying to show him how it was done. :)

This is a much bigger one of the bars and she was so proud of herself for getting up there.