Thursday, August 07, 2008

What is Wes up to?

Wes has discovered that the letters of the alphabet make sounds. And when you put the sounds together, they make words. So he has been drawing pictures and then sounding out the word to label them. The speller in me struggles not to correct him, but I am assured by my educator husband that this is something he is supposed to do. This is a big step in literacy. So here are a few examples.





2 comments:

Dionne Sincire said...

Bill is soooo right! Phonetic spelling is an essential step. Just think, soon he'll be writing sentences, then paragraphs, and then before you know it his master's thesis! What great artifacts.

Carrie Leigh said...

So, what exactly does the second pictures spell? ...Hroomin?!?... I need a little decoding! ;)