Katherine writes a story at her Parent-Teacher Conference. Faboo!
UPDATE: This was one of the four stations (reading, math, writing, conference) that Katherine rotated through at the PTC night. I wish you could have seen her intensity and earnestness in taking the picture, pasting it up on the page, and starting to write the story down. It was really neat.
They actually are teaching kids “Kindergarten Writing,” which is basically “write down for each word as many of the letters as you hear in the word” — which she’s gotten remarkably good at (such that it’s usually actually readable by an adult). The idea is not so much orthography in letter form or spelling, as to (a) get them used to writing, and (b) get them used to listening to the word sounds. So, for example, she started off the story with:
BABes cAn Du ANe Fng
which would be
Babies can do anything.
She’s actually ahead of the curve here — by the end of Kindergarten, they expect kids to be in “semi-phonetic” writing (“BBZ” or “BABZ”), while Katherine is into full-blown “phonetic.”
Keen
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