Oooh, what a treat, a comment from Chicagomama — oh, I miss her (and she won’t even see this comment, I should send her an email…).

Anyway, I think her writing is positively great! The funniest thing for us is when Kelvin decides he needs to write something in Portuguese… (he usually types it up and prints it because he’s a computer, printer, copier, ipod, etc… gadget geek). The spelling is so funny! Like I love you in Portuguese –Eu amo voce — “amo” gets spelled “umu” which is closer to the phonics he knows from English. Fun, fun times!!

Kelvin’s in first grade but can read at 2nd grade level, he just started spelling this past week and he’s doing fine. I think M is just where she should be with her writing… and I can read it just fine!

I’ve heard of this happening a lot with the easy reading vs. frustrating writing. I’m sure it happens more now because of the move toward using creative spelling in school. Luke is just the opposite: loves writing, reading not so much. Last year I was amazed, when looking through Luke’s kindergarten writing journal, how much easier it was to understand his spellings of words by the end of the year. I’m sure M will make rapid progress.

I love her version of Twinkle Twinkle!

Over here, Cami (the queen of inventive spelling till a moment mid kindergarten when she got spelling proper) is spending her afternoon looking up, and spelling in her notebook different words. Methinks she has been watching Akeelah and The Bee too often, as the words today seem to be constantly revolving choices of “pulchritude”, “argillaceous” and “xanthosis”. Hearing her practice the words over and over has been making me chuckle. My little wannabe spelling nerd in action.