Homework already!?!

Yes, can you believe it? Macey already has homework...in Pre-K. They call it 'optional homework', but I'm sure if we don't do it, we look like the bad parents. I am already getting a feel of what school will be like with her. She does not like to make mistakes, and this makes 'practicing' her lettters and numbers emotinal at times. I asked her to trace her letters while I take a shower and then we will practice them when I get out. Well a minute later she comes running in the bathroom with tears just pouring down her face: 'I messed up Mommy, I can't do it'; I looked at her paper and she had written her B backwards, but OMG so much emotion...elementary school is going to be fun!