Hi, chuppy, chloe has started spelling already, but it seems that mine hasn't yet ?! Even when I ask her to spell, she doesn't quite like as well. BTW, she is now practicing to write her Chinese name.
It's really a torture to practise writing Chinese name with my son, particularly so as our family name is 關 which has 19 strokes!!! My experience (of teaching my elder daughter 3 years ago) was that if a kid can manage writing this difficult word, he/she can practically write any Chinese character with ease. Everybody, add oil!