spelling bee
jan won’t be winning anytime soon, but for someone who just learned to read a few months ago, he’s making big leaps. in fact, his teacher said that for someone who’s not attending supplementary classes, he’s pretty good in phonics i.e., breaking down a word into its component sounds to figure out how to correctly pronounce a written word. that means he’s not seeing the words as images and simply memorizing the spelling. rather he’s taking the more arduous method but that which uses logic.
the funny thing with phonics is that, a child will usually spell a word the way he speaks it… yielding very interesting results.
here’s a “shopping list” jan wrote entirely on his own on our new whiteboard (er…greyboard). can you figure out what he wants us to buy?
mamulad — marmalade
gamubers — gummy bears
avan — oven (we were looking for a table top oven last weekend)
a foun for jan wan he is abeut 10 or 19 or 9 — pretty clear, i think?
gusas — juices
pancack max — pancake mix
tustpast — hilarious, isn’t it? 
spagate — almost
watereg glas — watering glass (no i don’t know what he refers to)
a instromant — an instrument (don’t know what specifically)
a shart for meha — sweet, eh? a shirt for mia (although she probably needs disposable diapers more urgently)
not a single one was spelled correctly. yet i feel so proud. weird.
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7 Responses to “spelling bee”
August 27th, 2008 at
the fact that he knows how to syllabicate is great. keanu can spell words pero memorization ang style that i’m noticing na turo so we’re in the process of teaching him the style jan’s using. pero di ko din minamadali tutal magfa-5 pa lang siya.
yung request number 4, ayos! bigyan namin sa birthday bwahaha
August 29th, 2008 at
galeng ni Jan!!!!
August 30th, 2008 at
that’s a great start already. you have all the reasons to be proud!
September 3rd, 2008 at
Ganyan din si CK dati. Sabi ng teacher tama naman daw kasi nga they are taught phonics. So wag ko daw i-pressure.
September 6th, 2008 at
wow, ang galing naman. i managed to decipher some esp the toothpaste and the spag
MC’s would be grade one this coming week and am excited, too
September 7th, 2008 at
Omg, that is so damn cute! I love the tustpast. I’ll use that term from now on. Thanks, Jan!
September 18th, 2008 at
[...] slowly, over the course of the last few months, he learned to read, and spell words phonetically. his spelling skills still has a long way to go, but he’s not letting that limit his creativity. last weekend, on a lazy afternoon when the entire household was napping and he probably was bored to his wit’s end because he wasn’t allowed to turn on the tv, he came up with this: [...]