Learning to Write

My first grader is loving writing lists and making math books.  He loves to write his own math problems on a legal pad while we are driving in the car, and he is getting good at math!  Today he was writing 10 x 10 =100 100 x 100=1000, etc on our short drive to church. Lying in bed tonight we were making plans for tomorrow. He and his dad had a "fun day" yesterday at a mini golf place, and he wanted to go back tomorrow for Family Night.  I told him "Maybe" and he was concerned because he didn't know what that meant.  Then he suggested a bounce house place as an alternative.  I told him that on Thursdays it only costs $4 per person, so that would be a better day.  He instantly said, "Then we would need $16."

The other night when I got home from work I was presented with a list.  I am not exactly sure what the list was for...I think it started out a menu order and then turned into a grocery or packing list, but I thought it was so cute, written on both sides of a used envelope, that I had to preserve it.

Here is what he wrote:

Garys list

Mom

fun fris

wodr

ornj jos

stak

sop

kis

plat

knif

roobe flot

(*translation -Gary's list for Mom: french fries, water, orange juice, steak, soap, kiss, plate, knife, rootbeer float)