my 4 year old and his spellings!!

[janeyo]

He has to learn about 45 words this year. And is very keen to do so. Which is brilliant.

He was struggling over a new on at breakfast. THIS

He was trying to work it our phonetically like he has been taught.

The shouts at the top of his voice. I know what it is, it's..........

S**T!

How me and OH stopped from falling off the chairs laughing I will never know!


He is so innocent he didn't even realise he had made a goof! PMSL

[kirsty b]

PMSL. Got to give him credit for getting the right letters..... Its so funny when they do that.

[nilling]

The local paper had an article about the regeneration of the centre of Preston called Tithebarn.

My daughter picked up the paper and asked me where tit-he-barn was? I nearly fell off my chair

[BarleySugar]

My son has always had severe difficulties with spelling, and I used to read through his work before he gave it in. I remember when he was in year 6 he had written a story about a boy walking in the woods, but he couldn't spell walking. He had only got one letter wrong, but it completely changed the meaning

[jackie j]

Kids are brilliant they give us so much joy, amongst the tears lol

[MaureenHall]

3 kids, all with different attitudes and capabilities when it came to reading and writing. Son was a good reader and speller but did it because it was necessary. Daughter number 1 is mildly dyslexic, could write a sentence with the word "would" spelled in 3 different ways, would read the words but not the story (know what I mean?). Daughter 3 started to read anything and everything from the age of 3 (truly!) and very rarely made spelling mistakes. When we were first looking for a house to buy, she was then 4 and a half, reading the newspaper ads said "this one sounds nice, it's got a picture-squee garden" bless Her English teacher at school told me that she always saved Becci's homework till last because she always enjoyed finishing with something that was bound to be good. Now at age 37, she's written a few short stories and one of her daughters has just won a story writing competition beating children up to 4 years older than her. It's lovely to have a quiet (and sometimes not so quiet) laugh when they make reading and spelling mistakes though isn't it

[Pootle]

I love those weird and wonderful attempts they make when learning to write - it shows how they hear words - fab. It seems such a shame when they start doing it all 'properly', some of the character disappears...I have a box of written scraps in the loft which I pull out every now and then for a chuckle

[jackie j]

My nieces little girl who is 3 1/2 years old cannot pronounce some words properly and if you repeat what she has said she says no not like that its blah ( whatever it was ) so she knows what she has said but has pronounced it wrong and when you repeat it wrong she tells you off lol

[Flummery]

Our son was a creative speller! I remember him writing in his 'What I did at the weekend' essay at the age of 6 "We went to warm kware to see bee orkids." Warram Quarry! But if you say it phonetically, he had the right idea.