{"id":14243,"date":"2019-04-29T15:39:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T22:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kinderroom.com\/home\/?p=14243"},"modified":"2019-04-29T15:39:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T22:39:46","slug":"free-writing-yeehaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kinderroom.com\/home\/free-writing-yeehaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Writing &#8211; YEEHAW!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Hi Parents,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Over the last few weeks, our kids have been working hard on their writing skills.\u00a0 They have been free writing on various topics.\u00a0 They have been sounding out words they have never seen before and using their phonetic knowledge to write the words.\u00a0 Their spelling will improve the more they practice.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Free writing is one of those abilities that I look at as we approach the end of the year to determine how successful our year has been.\u00a0 It involves bringing together multiple concepts that the children have learned throughout the year.\u00a0 Now they are being asked to have confidence in themselves, be creative, and write about whatever comes to mind when given a topic of interest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I can&#8217;t say enough about how impressed I am with our children&#8217;s writing ability and how they are sounding out words to write on their own.\u00a0 Please continue to encourage them as they write at home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Here are some examples of creative spelling words that you may see from your child which should be completely acceptable at this time.\u00a0 The correct spelling is on the left with the possible\/acceptable phonetic spelling variations on the right.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">truck = chruk<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">drive = jriv<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">beautiful = butifl<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Please notice how the words on the right-hand side above are misspelled.\u00a0 However, they are phonetically correct.\u00a0 At this point, we want the children to be excited about writing.\u00a0 We want them to use what they presently know about letters sounds to write their words.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">As our children read more throughout the next few years, their spelling will improve.\u00a0 They will recognize many of the common sight words and remember how to spell them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">If you see your child writing on their own at home, please celebrate it.\u00a0 Let them know what a great job they are doing.\u00a0 If they are missing a sound in their writing, you can assist them by identifying their missing sound.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Congratulations and Thank You Parents,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Mr. B<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Parents, Over the last few weeks, our kids have been working hard on their writing skills.\u00a0 They have been free writing on various topics.\u00a0 They have been sounding out words they have never seen before and using their phonetic knowledge to write the words.\u00a0 Their spelling will improve the more they practice.\u00a0\u00a0 Free writing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kinderroom.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kinderroom.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kinderroom.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kinderroom.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kinderroom.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kinderroom.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14244,"href":"http:\/\/kinderroom.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243\/revisions\/14244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kinderroom.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kinderroom.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kinderroom.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}