Hugo's drawings

Today I finally got around to photographing some of the HUGE pile of drawings that Hugo has created in recent months.  He loves drawing and is more and more interested in writing words and letters too.  He can write a few words by heart such as Hugo, Dex, Mum, Dad, go, stop, dog...though he can be rather creative with the order of the letters.  Many of his 'words' are completely made up, often with actual letters of the alphabet, often letter-like scribbles.  He likes me to spell out words as he writes them and checks each letter first by drawing it in the air and saying 'S is like this, isn't it mum?' etc.

I bought him a few workbook style early literacy activity books, you know the type; where he can trace the letters, circle which pictures on the page begin with that letter, draw a line between capital and lower case letters and so on.  He is much more into these than Dexter was who basically said - why would I trace over the same letter, repeatedly across the entire page when I've just done it once already?!  Having said that, Dexter is really into the currant workbooks I bought him (Excel's Science and Technology Ages 6-8 and a few of those cheapie School Zone publications like First and Second Grade Basics).  He hasn't spent more than 5 minutes with the Targeting Handwriting NSW Foundation Style 1 student book which was waste of $15!  And if you saw his shocking handwriting you would believe me!  Plenty of time for him to work on that though.  And it doesn't hurt to have a few of the BOS recommended workbooks around for our homeschooling records/resources...whether or not he uses them.  We can hand them onto Hugo anyway if his love for tracing letters continues.

Anyway, onto those drawings by Hugo:

He has a habit of adding little love hearts midway through someones name - naw!

I included the pen below to show perspective - how tiny and perfect is his name?  He drew this a few weeks ago, recently he has been drawing his g's backwards.

These three little letters were made early one morning - apart from Will who leaves the house at the ungodly hour of 6am or so Hugo is still the first one out of bed in this house.  This day he wrote some letters for Dexter (whose preferred sleeping pattern is one of the night owl like his mama) and placed them all around his sleeping head so that he would see them straight away upon waking.  He explained that they say 'To Dexter, Love Hugo' and include portraits of them both.