Thanks, bluemagic! we do see certain letters backwards in DS5.5 and see those on the works from his classmates, so I know those should work itself out. It is just odd that she would be writing right to left and letters upside down so that if you turned it 180, it would be correct and left to right (one teacher mentioned it was interesting she did that to me today so it did seem to stand out to a few others too). But we are not commenting on it at all with her - everything else she does is right side up so far (her figures, flowers etc) so I am hoping it just naturally switches over time.