Now that we've got a new PM, back to more important stuff.
My 5 year old did a picture at school and it had this written at the top:
chrejmap
Anyone want to hazard a guess?
Treasure Map I reckon
Classic
Sounds like somewhere in Croatia!
Whats the picture of?
wildheart's right, I reckon
My youngest is called Anna. One of her friends writes it "AN" - or at least she used to last time I saw 😆
yeah gotta be treasure map , my 5 year olds spelling seems really good so far but this learning phonetically is a pain as he's been pronouncing words literally plee-as instead of please being a prime example (took us 4 weeks to stop this one)
All the teacher said when we expressed concern was 'oh thats how we do it nowadays , just correct him when he makes a mistake'
definitely treasure map. My daughter, at age 9, still spells a lot of things phonetically. Not a great system as far as I can see, although that view is only based on observing one child of course. Thank goodness she has started reading a bit more now.
Treasure Map it was - made me laugh.
My wife's a primary teacher and she's not bothered about it - it's called "emergent writing" apparently.
I'm just chuffed that my 5 year old [b]boy[/b] wants to write anything off his own bat. His sister (6) is always writing stories but up to now Arthur hasn't wanted to write as much, and when he does it's usually a list - V male behaviour! Mind you the other day he did write quite a long piece:
Iloocatthemoon.themoonhazcraitzorloovit
The pic BTW is a map of an island covered with "cogs that slice your head off" with the treasure hidden under them. 😀
Single speed cog by any chance?
Probably directions to Charlie T Bikemonger's then
Can you scan it in for us please? 🙂
Phonetics has it's place, what it's not so good at is context. You learn a sound, but in isolation with no real understanding of reading or writing the word you're sounding out. There are now more complete systems (Read Write Inc springs to mind) which does the whole, so as you learn the phonetic sound you learn to see it on the page in a word, and do the writing all at the same time.
Jesus, that's got to be the dullest post ever...
It's like complicated txt spk.....!
The way I see it (it took me a while to appreciate this!) - phonetics gets them started, then they begin to learn the words and memorise the spelling. My boy's 7 and over the past year his spelling and particularly reading has come on leaps and bounds.
phonetics gets them started, then they begin to learn the words and memorise the spelling.
Dead right. That's why it is important to listen to your child read. Then you spot the words they sound out wrong and correct them.
I'm usually the one that reads the kids their bedtime story, but often my 6 year old reads a bit of it and the 5 year old reads a sentence or two as well.
my 3 year old insists on reading a bedtime story to his little brother (20 months). Its ususally 'the very hungry caterpillar' but quite often Batman emerges from the coccoon rather than a butterfly 🙂
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The cartwheel bits are the "cogs that slice your head off - NB one of them has treasure (X) underneath"
Also the line of small circles on the right hand side are "things that roll down and kill you" when you try to get the treasure just N of them.
He's a bloodthirsty little sod.
[i]He's a bloodthirsty little sod[/i]
Nah, he's a [i]boy[/i] 😉
I reckon your 5yr old has better handwriting than me 🙁
He is due for a job at Ordinance Survey as his map is more accurate.
can someone give me a postcode for that?