Hapi olmost halawin by jeffreymcmanus.
Celeste writes letters to characters in the game Animal Crossing nearly every day. Her spelling isn’t terrific (she’s six, so it’s no big whoop) but it’s really astonishing to see her pursuing this with such vigor when six months ago she was barely able to read or write her own name.
This reminds me of when I was in fifth grade and I got my first real creative writing and public speaking experience through dungeon mastering. Why can’t more learning activities seem like play?
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This is very impressive but did her spelling really improve between the first and the third line (“halawin” vs. “halloween”)?
Seriously, make sure to save all of these little bits and treasure them. Stuff like walking, talking, and writing happens so gradually that it is hard to look back and pin down the exact moment that your child did them for the first time.
And Happy Halloween back to your family, by the way.
Yeah, after her first attempt she asked me for assistance on the spelling of halawin.