3.19.2009

She Loves Her Some ELUFIT

Because this day's posting has featured Annie's reading, how 'bout some of her writing? While I was upstairs, Annie barged ahead in her Phonics book. The instructions only requested she write the first letter of each word, but she likes to reach for the sky, hence the ELUFIT and MUCE and DEMIMD.


This is funny to a mother-teacher, but I concede that it's probably not to the world at large. When stumped about "what and what makes six," she merely changed the sum to 16 and proceeded from there.

6 comments :

Liana said...

Please thank Annie for making me laugh out loud...
I love the "voelid" as well as the "demimd" ring!
And...hey, she's right 8 + 8 = 16.
Smart girl.

Griffen said...

That is GENIUS!!

Michelle said...

I love it! These are the things you want to hang onto forever. :) Stephen has come up with some interesting spellings, too.

cadie said...

I think my favorite is "muce" for monkey. "Mu(n)c-e", you see. :)I'm with Liana on "Demimd" and "voelid" too. And I think changing the 6 to 16 was very clever of her. How many 4-year olds (isn't that how old she is?) would write 8 plus 8 equals 6 and then know enough to change it to 16?

Unknown said...

Don't you love that YOU are enjoying the amusing way her mind works instead of someone else!!! Such a joy to teach your own children!!!

Abigail said...

Kiley,
Amen!

Cadie,
To clarify, the reason why she knows "doubles facts" is because she's been using the Saxon 1 curriculum this year. It introduces doubles facts fairly early and then builds on them for other addition and subtraction facts. (But I won't mind if you think she's clever enough to know that innately!)