I found this in Grant’s homework the other day. The definitions for these are on the other side of the sheet, and trust me when I tell you that “an emotional end” is not included.

Things I love about this:

• The spelling, duh. He’s an amazing intuitive speller. English makes no sense, and he is doing great communicating his points.
• He connects with stories! He loves reading together, and he’s getting into reading by himself.
• He knows not all stories are the same. Some are interesting, some are dry, some are emotional, etc.
• He could have stopped writing at “solved” and been 100% correct, based on the definition given on the front of the paper. He didn’t. He had more to say about the power of stories.
• He feels.

This is tho sort of thing that brings me joy. And it’s why I look at everything he brings home. It’s like the time he got a spelling word wrong on a test because he wrote “froat” for “throat” (he also says “fanks” and “fing” as in “I couldn’t see a fing!” and “muvver” and “brovver” for mother and brother). I just loved that he wrote froat – he’s going to grow out of this before long (though I still use Fs a lot for THs) and I’ll be sad when it’s over.