Should I correct daughters spelling?

[Drinkandknowthings]

DD is 6 and in senior infants (Irish system so the second year of primary school).

She loves to write little notes and will give me a pen so I can reply. Most of these are spelled phonetically and I'm not sure if I should correct her or not.

So cum for come, cn for can, things like that.

So should I correct her or just let her at it.

My reaction would be certainly not to correct everything - I feel as though that would stifle any pleasure she gets from writing these notes, and practically speaking at that age she's not going to go through a whole stack of corrections methodically making a note not to make those errors again!

I feel a better way would be for you to use some of those words in your responses, and that way she naturally sees the correct version - I think children absorb a lot that way.

If there are particular common words that she keeps getting wrong, make a note and address those with her in a fun way separately.

Simple words like that then probably. More complicated words then not at this stage. I like the idea of writing them back to her.

No, in your shoes I wouldn't correct them but focus on their meaning instead.
I think she will pick up the correct spellings (and rules of grammar) the more reading she does so I'd be very surprised if she was making this type of error in a year or two's time.
(Irish school system here)

My 9 year old has a note on her door

"kock before entering"

I haven't told her!

Imo the longer the spelling is uncorrected the more it's imprinted as correct! I have always corrected my dc from young and in secondary school they are fab spellers!

No, I think it's sweet. I still have notes and shopping lists my son used to write with loads of spelling mistakes. There's plenty of time for working on spellings when doing homework, etc, He's a fab speller now

In England schools have an order of corrections. So can would be corrected, but come( having the magic e on the end that changes the vowel sound at the beginning ) is taught later. So maybe start with phonetic words.
But you might put her off writing a bit if you start correcting, which would be a shame.

In Junior and Senior infants (an Irish mum here too) they are more focused on learning the shapes and sounds that the letters of the alphabet make.
A = annie apple
B = Bouncing Ben
C = Clever Cat and so on....

Spellings will come when they move on to the Just Write series of books or Spellbound.
It will also come with reading the written text so the Jolly Phonics books or Wonderland series when they bring them home and have to read them aloud to you and you're helping, show them how the words are formed. Give your DD the building blocks so that she can form the words properly herself.

Don't correct notes for pleasure. Then she'll stop doing them.
Work on spellings as a separate issue at spelling time, you can use words from the notes in there (as long as you don't mention that they come from the notes).
But for pleasure writing, your job is too say nice things, so that it remains pleasurable and she continues to do it. She'll learn more by writing for fun (with mistakes) because she wants to, then writing less because its something less fun and she has to think about and thinks you'll just find mistakes.

I would Just enjoy them. And keep them for their 21st birthday!! I took the approach that they will learn at school and to support them in their homework and she ended up a very good speller. At that age it is wonderful that they are having fun. If you want to make it educational fun, that is up to you but they may stop finding it fun....