Thank you notes

It's been fascinating watching the evolution of thank you notes for the gifts the children received for their birthday. They started off by dictating to me. I wrote their dictation onto the white board and then they copied it onto their note cards. Pretty soon they told me that they could write the notes without dictating to me first. I was very pleased to see how their notes became more involved once they stopped the dictation. I thought that it would be quite the opposite.