Typing

Penny can "write" her name and the names of others if you tell her how to spell it one letter at a time. She only does uppercase, and some things she can't do yet without you having to demonstrate so she can copy it. She likes to play "school" with Tray on her chalkboard and practice writing short words that way. Even if it's a word that we've done many times before she still wants us to spell it out for her a letter at a time. If you ask her how to spell something we've done before like ball, she'll spell it aloud without hesitation, but if you ask her to write ball she won't do it unless we spell it out for her. So. Two nights ago I let her type on a blank Word document on my laptop. She usually just pushes a bunch of keys and writes jibberish, but this time she typed her name. Without anyone having to spell it for her! And then she typed mom. And ball. She "wrote" words on her own, but using the keyboard. And then she typed a bunch of jibberish (because that's fun).