On Thursday, for my birthday, Stringbean spent ages doing a picture (of a church) and then writing on the back, then putting it in an envelope with 60p she got out of her piggy bank. Except for asking me who you spell ‘er’ (of all the things) she did it all herself
It really is Wuendvul, and I was very touched.
lovely
I absolutely adore those kinds of spellings. It is so exciting to see children making the language work for them – much better than an over-pre-occupation with what is correct. Have you ever read ‘GNYS at wrk: a child learns to write and read’ by Glenda Bissex? It is an all-time favourite of mine – in fact I think SB has just inspired me to a blog post.
I have to say, I was so pleased with it. you can tell she tok a long time, because she uses words in 2 different sentences [without a sentence such as ‘the maker’.
I was really stunned by the attempt at wonderful though. we haven’t really done anything much with writing, as she has been reluctant, and so here she is.