Your best spelling

We started a new writing curriculum in January. The first lessons focus on "getting started": what is a sentence? what does a sentence need? She will tell you the four things: (1) capital letter, (2) spaces between words, (3) ending punctuation, (4) subject and predicate.

We'll spend a few weeks on how to add details to sentences and how to construct paragraphs. Later this spring we'll spend quite a few weeks on narrative writing. (I don't think we'll get to the rest of the types of writing until next year.)

But a key concept early on was "use your best spelling." Obviously Anya doesn't know how to spell most words, and that has definitely slowed down her attempts at writing in the past. But, she seemed to find this lesson very freeing and a confidence booster. Slowly sound out the word and make your best guess. Just go for it!

I thought I'd share a few of my favorites.

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