Okay. On the subject of writing, and we’re talking kinder, 1st grade at back to school, I always talk to the parents about phonetic spelling that their little ones that are learning how to write are gonna write the sounds they hear and not to correct them. So if they run wanted to write Disneyland in their story at home, because we did something called Wednesday Night Writing. And I will tell you about that. It was a writing assignment I sent home on Wednesday nights. Yes. In kindergarten. And first. And I did it as well. And they wanted to spell Disneyland and they needed to be brave and tried on their own. So maybe they would write d, s, L, d, Disneyland. However they can, phonetically, whatever sounds they hear. That’s great. Parents don’t correct them. They wanna be brave. You don’t want that writer’s block cuz they’re scared. They don’t wanna spell it.
However, I implemented this in my classroom mid year in Kinder and I loved it. And it was called try it. So I’m gonna tell you a little bit about it. Okay, so remember that phonetic is good and I don’t correct them if they’re writing their stories and turning it in phonetically. But there are little ones that phonetically write the word and then they get blocked because they know that’s not what it looks like. Okay, so I called something, I didn’t implement something called try it.
These are new at the Dollar Tree this year. There are many comic books. So I got these for try it. But prior to this finding these last year and the years before, I would do sticky notes or get a receipt roll paper and make it tear off. Some of that got a little bit messy. Let me tell you what it is called. Try it. They were in their writing and they were gonna write about a scary dog and they didn’t know how to, so scary instead of, I don’t know how to spell it. How do you spell it? They would get there, try it, little piece of paper and they would try to spell it, the sounds that they know. And then they could bring it to me and we would talk about it and I would show them the correct way to spell it. Okay? Not for all kids. I didn’t make them do that. This was a differentiation. Try it for the ones that needed that, because I would have said that would know that that’s not how you spell scary it. That doesn’t look right with an SK and they would stop writing. So I gave them this to differentiate a little bit and they loved it. So that’s something else you could do in the classroom and make sure that your parents aren’t hounding them on their correct spelling because phonetic spelling is okay for kindergarten site words. We like to be spelled correctly, but the other words, that’s much. So anyways, let’s try it. Let me know if you have any other questions. Okay, bye.