When I got home from work tonight, A. very proudly showed me his To Do list for tomorrow. He had it all written out on a piece of paper:
- waic up
- pt on cllos
- brush ar teef
- eet brefisd
- go too sgoowl
- plai socr
- woch u videeo
- plai on u cmpyoudr
- plai kards
- hav activuees
- hav dinr
- go to sleep
"I've got a lot going tomorrow!" he exclaimed.
6 comments:
I vote for spelling school, sgoowl. Cmpyoudr seems right to me too. Someone is teaching a 4 year old to be too organized when they are making lists already. What an amazing boy! I'm still wondering about hav activuees...I think I just might put that on my list for today too.
KNOTMOM
That's a keeper! I love the imaginative phonetic spelling. A. obviously worked very hard on this. Sigh. This is one of those times that I miss having little kids.
I heart your boy and how he oozes Montessori. LOL
And no, I haven't looked up Family Feud on YouTube. I may have to sacrifice this morning's planned work activities to embark on a Family Feud marathon.
Beej
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knotmom: Well, he sure as heck ain't getting it from me. And I'm wondering what activuees he's planning, too.
Sarah: Yeah, Montessori has them writing sentences phonetically before they learn to spell. The only problem is that when I tell A. how something is really spelled, he gets all uppity and says, "Well, *I* spell it like this." He's not buying into the whole language contract thing where we all agree on the spelling of words.
Beej: I know, he's a Montessori model child. They do eventually learn to spell, though, right?
He's busier than I am. I feel so lazy now...
Yeah, they do eventually learn to spell (though apparently it takes a while to go from Egiption to Egyptian as seen in Kevin's note last week). However, all of that fabulous proper spelling skill will be ruined once A learns to send IMs and text messages.
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