Always willing to 'help'

Each night after getting the kids home and settled, I look through book bags to see if there is anything that needs to be done. I don't expect homework in the 1st grade, but you just never know.

The other night I looked in Nathan's folder and found some worksheets. I pulled them out and found something interesting.

When Nathan writes his name, it takes up about half the sheet of paper. It ends up looking something like this: N a t h a n.

Mrs. Graff has tried to show him that there is too much space between the letters by putting a red squiggly line between the acre of room that he's left between each letter.

Here is what I found in his folder.

I said "Natey, Mrs. Graff doesn't understand what you've done here" as I pointed to the question mark. Without even thinking he said "Oh! I was helping Mrs. Graff. I noticed that my letters were pretty far apart, so I put the line in there for her."

For reals.

I laughed so hard I had tears.

Finally, after composing myself, I said "Well, next time, why don't you just erase the letters and put them closer together and not use the line that Mrs. Graff does."

Come on people - he was only trying to help.

PS: If you look close, you can see that he actually erased the line and redrew it. That's dedication y'all.