What age would you put this child at?

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For writing etc? Any teachers to give feedback would also be very helpful 🙏

Looks fine for a 5 year old to me.

It doesn't say Doggie. It says Doggy. What year are you in?

@MyOtherCarisAVauxhallZafira Thank
you, do you think I should follow the standard way of writing ( following the national curriculum and the way I was taught) if they reach it differently? They write in a very fancy way, would it confuse her to learn both?

Reception
Possibly year 1 if summer birthday

It’s normal for her age. What’s most important imo is that she’s independently using writing to communicate and I wouldn’t want to discourage her from doing that by focusing too heavily on the technicalities. She should enjoy it and want to write for fun.

Teacher of many years here. OK for 3 or 4 year old. By 5 most would likely be doing better.

I wouldn't do both.

Our child's school changed systems slightly (I think between year 3 and year 4). It was annoying. Stick with one

Looks fine for a 5 year old. Formation not quite right but she’s not in the uk so it’s explained

Worried she will behind what/who?

Does the country you live in have a decent education system that results in plenty of people achieving good outcomes at 16? If so, you can trust their education system.

The UK starts children quite early with formal reading and writing, and achieves nothing additional as a result.

I wouldn’t practice at home. They go to school to learn. They need the time at home to have fun and relax. Unless they get homework; but tbh I think homework at that age is a joke too. I still don’t always do my 8 year olds homework with her, other times we do the same content but in a different way (for example she’s meant to write her words three times in her jotter, but sometimes we will do them outside with chalk or in shaving foam) and we never read the school reading books because they are boring. Instead, we read books of her choosing at night.

Her teacher is fully supportive - I suspect the teacher only really sets it because she has to!

(I’m a teacher also)

Follow the system of the school your child is in.

Having seen she's not in school- then it's fine. I was going to add 'if she's been taught well' to my post above but decided not to.

Similar level to my year 1 child I think. Spelling is getting good but handwriting/spacing has some issues.

He'd definitely draw a dog that looked more like a cat too 🤣

It's legible enough, show's enthusiasm for writing and errors can surely be smoothed out. Surely better than never having tried.

My dc were at this stage at around 6ish(home ed, so it was a natural progression over being taught). What is most important is that she is picking up a pen and enjoying writing.

Could be anywhere between 4 to 8.

3 months!

3

I live in Australia where children generally don’t start school until age 5-6. My children wrote like that in preschool as it followed a very child-led learning style which emphasised children seeing themselves as writers and story tellers rather than teaching letter formation which is more of a copying skill. When my children started school they had no trouble learning proper letter formation, when to use uppercase etc.

1. Looks familiar to my sons or better. Coz not all kids handwriting gets better with age. Some just don't get the hang of it.

I wrote 8

Based on 'mummy', I'd be thinking 6 or younger.
Based on secondary teaching and parenting, it could be any age from 5-16.

Really? My 13 year old still calls me mummy.

3 or 4? Like the cat.

The handwriting plus the drawing makes me think 5 or 6 years old, but I'd want to see how they manage with lined paper.

I have seen this standard produced by much older children with learning difficulties. (I work in secondaries.) Drawings can often be a good indicator of ability level.