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Bit worrying - Ds has been fabricating his 'News'!!! Does yours do this?

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Flightattendant27 · 05/03/2009 17:33

It's hilarious really...went for PT consultation yesterday, and got presented with his books to have a look through afterwards.

Literacy book was a revelation. He's done some great pictures but the stories are mainly completely untrue!!

it's meant to be 'news' and I think he must feel his life is so dull, he has to just make it up

First of all I had a little double take at 'Our car blew up' though it was a lovely pic of our nice car.

Then it was 'We went to the Christmas fair (Like hell we did) and there was a big wheel (yes, ahem) and giant hamsters. Although he tells me it was meant to say 'hammers'- even more

He had drawn giant orange things next to a diminutive ferris wheel...obviously..

He gets comments like 'how lovely' and 'very good work' but I am feeling it is a matter of time before he gives them something like 'mummy's boyfriend makes me eat soap' or some such monstrous untruth.

Anyone else?

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Seeline · 05/03/2009 17:36

I think all children do this - I certainly remember doing it at school (but then my life really was boring!) I'm sure the teachers are used to it. They only want to see whether the child can write properly and use correct grammar etc - it really doesn't matter what they are actually saying. Great imagination BTW!

bumpybecky · 05/03/2009 17:38

yes my older two have both done this. dd1 went to space one week.....

I remember visiting wishing wells and seeing faries when I was at school!

The main purpose of news is to get them to write something, I don't think the teachers care what it is! (although the eating soap thing might get you an odd look.....)

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Flightattendant27 · 05/03/2009 17:39

Oh I do hope they know...I am just concerned that they know not to believe him!

Social services could just turn up at any moment otherwise!

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ForeverOptimistic · 05/03/2009 17:42

I always told the truth much to my mum's embrassment.

I wrote about our Saturday trips to the jumble sale which embrassed my mum for some reason, I wrote about my dad getting drunk and kicking a hole in the door because my Mum had locked him out and I wrote about how my sister had a lovely holiday in Benidorm and a magic spanish witch put a spell on her so she could have a baby, when I was questionned about this I said that it must have been a witch because she wasn't married and everyone was saying that she had come back pregnant.

I am sure teachers must get to hear all sorts.

Buda · 05/03/2009 17:44

FA - see here!

Buda · 05/03/2009 17:46

Aargh - now try! - here!

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Flightattendant27 · 05/03/2009 17:46

Hi Buda! Link not working for me, will try again in a min

FO - that is absolutley hysterical! Brilliant. Magical Spanish witch!!!

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Flightattendant27 · 05/03/2009 17:47

Oh, fantastic! I'll have a read

Thanks B x

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castille · 05/03/2009 17:47

My mother was called by my worried teacher one day when I'd written a detailed account of how my friend and I had been followed then chased by a strange man at the cricket ground the previous weekend. Because writing "I spent Sunday playing with my friend Sally while our Dads played cricket" for the fiftieth time was booooring.

Once the truth was out, my teacher told my Mum that reading news was the highlight of her working week

MrsGuyOfGisbourne · 05/03/2009 18:01

I prefer it when thye do than when they tell thr truth ( eg the true news that 'we went to a barbecue and stayed nearly all night [about 9pm] and mum and dad drank wine and mum fell off my brother's [toy]scooter on the way home' or 'went out with with my friend x - we played football and our mums went to the bar' whcih makes the new sound worse than it really was

roisin · 05/03/2009 18:47

I used to do this all the time at school. I remember writing once in infants that my dad had crashed the car in the icy weather. My dad was not impressed when he read it.

In my defence the teacher used to say to us that if we didn't have anything interesting for news we should make it up

christywhisty · 05/03/2009 19:55

My DS used to do this, he once wrote we had bought a snake at the weekend. It was wishful thinking

robinpud · 05/03/2009 20:00

My neice told the teacher( and class) that her mother was not in fact her real mother, but her adoptive mother as real mother had been killed in a car accident.

Ds went through a wildly inventive phase for a couple of years. It gave his KS 1 teacher much to chortle about.

At least he never told his teacher that when he walked into his parents' room early one Sunday morning they were practicing rowing practice as one little child told me at news time!

ingles2 · 05/03/2009 21:13

ds2 told the class that he was actually the son of |Indiana Jones recently! And then asked me to write a letter confirming this

stealthsquiggle · 05/03/2009 21:20

I have seen/heard different approaches to this - one child who wrote about playing with the Man U first team at the weekend - when questioned by his mother, he said that RL was so boring that he thought he would make something up - the thing that mostly puzzled her was that he didn't even like football

At the opposite extreme, a child who, no matter what exciting outings etc he had been on, would write exactly the same thing (something along the lines of 'I played in the garden with the dog') every week. When asked why, he revealed 'because it is easy and I know how to write it and I can get it done quickly and then go and do something else'

TooMuchTV · 05/03/2009 21:24

I once wrote about visiting "one of daddy's friend who dresses up as a lady" (he was the dame in the pantomime but I hadn't included that fact)

Hulababy · 05/03/2009 21:25

I help out in DD's Y2 class and I know for definite that some of the information and news that a couple of the girls pass on to their teacher are definitely not true, in the slightest.

For example today they were looking at a book of dolphins and a child mentioned she had swum with dolphins. Another girl I know then said so had she, where she did it and at what age - I know for definite she never has. This is not the first time either - she seems to like inventing lots of news stories, as does at leats one other in the class.

I am also a bit at some of the news given in sharing time in the Y1 class I work in (another school).

quickdrawmcgraw · 05/03/2009 21:29

when talking about nicknames ds (untruthfully) told the class that his nickname was 'Breast' because he had loved breastfeeding so much when he was a baby.

teacher laughingly told me after school and when I talked to ds he said 'I know it wasn't true but the whole class thought it was really funny'

glinda · 05/03/2009 21:50

Speaking as a reception teacher - don't worry, of course we know that that they make it all up. They act out reality in the home corner - word for word! Be afraid ladies

oopsagain · 05/03/2009 21:55

i haven't read the rest of the thread
But i did tell my reception teaher that my dad hadbeen to the moon at the weekedn.

she did keep asking if he had- so i dug my heels in further and said he goes every weekend.
[hrin]

Littlefish · 05/03/2009 21:56

I once had a child in my class who told me all about flying in her dad's plane to see a Spice Girls concert. I thought she had made it up! However, I talked to her mum about it, and it was all true! .

How was I supposed to know...

nickschick · 05/03/2009 22:02

My friend too her little girl in class and on the wall was a chart,

How we come to school.

There was a picture of some shoes and several names of kids that walked to school.

a picture of a bus and childrens names

a car picture and childrens names

and

a

helicopter!!! and her little girls name!!!

nickschick · 05/03/2009 22:07

When we moved away our house wasnt ready so we booked into a hotel for a few weeks ds was due to start school and so we still sent him .......the teacher called me in and asked me 'where have you moved to?' so i told her

ahhh thats explains it she said showing me ds1s worksbook

My house

My house is very big I dont know how many rooms are there but my mummy doesnt clean them a lady comes in and gives us all clean sheets and tidies up for us,then we order our tea off a menu and a lady cooks it for us.

We have an elephant in our garden (itwas a climbing frame thing) and on the weekend
microlights land in our garden.

When the grass cutting man comes he lets me ride on his grass cutter machine.

techpep · 05/03/2009 22:10

My dd went to Italy last year, we've never been to Italy or spoken about it, really have no idea how it came up.

nickschick · 05/03/2009 22:18

Its all imaginative tho ......isnt it?