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Emergent spelling - do they still do it? Just found DS2's Y1 History book and it is hilarious

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WendyWeber · 22/12/2007 19:57

No idea why these are in History, but the spelling is ingenious (he was 5½ at the time)

This is Bonfire Night - as presented:

"I went to Bed
good time wen I got Home I was tiyed
I saw lots of Bonfiyes it was
I went to the casuw fiey and"

No idea why it's written from the bottom up.
(casuw fiey = castle fire)

Then there was a drawing at the bottom - ah, this is history:

"He is bloing up the Hawsis of Parliament"

(I suspect Parliament was written on the board... )

Then we have

"Things my teacher does in scool

She ritse
She checse Things
She wucse with chopse
She taycks us a wand the school
She tctchis us
She dus the redJist
She puts the sine on the door
She dus pe rith us"

Some of those words were corrected - school, checks, teaches, sign and with.

He can spell properly now, but I believe emergent spelling is a bone of contention in education? My older kids would do a drawing, tell the teacher what it was, the teacher would write it out and they would then copy what she'd written. By the time DS2 went they had moved over to this but I've no idea what they're doing now (different staff anyway).

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TroutSprout · 24/12/2007 19:08

Aww dd (4)is doing this..i love it.
Her first tooth fell out the other day..this is what she wrote to the tooth fairy:

Deer toof fery
Miy toof has cam at and miy toof is in miy ferst her box

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