Words

After months of begging, bribing and trying all kinds of tricks to get Harrison interested in writing, he finally decided he wanted to learn to write. It was a couple of weeks ago on a Thursday night when Madeleine & I were going over her spelling words. All of a sudden -- Harrison runs into the playroom & returns with the white board & a marker. He tells me he want to write a word. What word??? Because. Because. The first word Harrison ever wrote on his own was "because." I didn't even think to take a picture of that! Maybe I was completely in shock that after all this time he'd decided to write.
Since then, we write every. single. day. He picks the words & I write them and then he copies it underneath. Sometime if he doesn't think he can get a letter, I'll write it in yellow marker & he'll trace it in a darker color. We've written everything from "grass" to "poop" to "poptart." However the spirit moves him, that's what we write. :) I find myself excited to see what word is going to pop out next! I did take some pictures of a few words we wrote that night. His writing is actually improving a lot & he's gain quite a bit of letter recognition. I guess it just goes to show me that kids will do things in their own time. I knew he'd get interested at some point with us doing spelling words for Madeleine each week.
I have to brag for a minute & say that, while they do work on their words some at school each week, all the reading Madeleine does is making such a difference in her spelling. We usually go over her words one time the night before her test on Friday & she had a 97% spelling average for this past quarter.
A couple of weeks ago this is the test she brought home. Numbers 14 &15 were a bonus. Yep, she got a 108% on that test!!! That's my girl!
When I was looking at the test a couple of days later (from it's prominate spot on our fridge!) I noticed something that made me BUST out laughing. Look at her name. It's misspelled! How funny is that??? I'm guessing she started writing her name, then stopped & took the test, then came back to her name, but still. 108% and she misspelled her name. Still makes me crack up! That silly, silly girl!