Boylee's teacher is clear about what she wants in her students' writing -- they don't need to worry about spelling, except for their sight works, which are simple, short words. All of the sight words are posted on the classroom walls and the kids are encouraged to look at them and copy the letters if they don't remember how to spell them.
For all the rest of the words they write, they're just asked to sound them out. When those sentences come home, the teacher frequently corrects the spelling, but just so the parents can understand what the kid has written. Here's a sentence Boylee wrote last week. And he got a 4 on it -- the top score. See if you can decode this mysteriously spelled message:
Grielus are nicic and fradle and et bunanas.
Guesses in the comments, please.
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3 comments:
Hmm... how about... "Gorillas are nice and friendly and eat bananas." Are you sure Boylee hasn't started writing in Latin?
Uncle Kevin wins the prize. You clearly know your kinder-style writing.
Late to the game...I didn't recognize "nice." Hurrah for Uncle Kevin!
Did I tell you about the kid who saw a picture of "a frikkin' elephant" -- a grown-up double-checked and it was, indeed, "African elephant."
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