As you can imagine parents ask me a multitude of questions and share with me endless information about their child. One parent told me about her son great desire to be like his big brother and father. (Not uncommon) The child really wanted to have his own email! He watched his dad email during work and his older brother email friends and family.
Now mom, she was very unsure of what to do. She really wanted her four-year-old to learn to write and read letters. He was really giving her a hard time at home about sitting at the table and writing and tracing. I assured mom that her son would learn to write and read all in due time. I shared with mom some online resources where she could find some activities to reinforce learning. I also shared my email address with mom and told her that he could email me when he was ready.
Just a day later I receive an email from my students new Gmail account! Yes he is four and he sends me regular emails from his Gmail account. At the end of the email it reads, "typed by my big brother." Do you think my student will learn to write and read letters using Gmail? I sure do!
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