our lives in small town, East Africa

Sunday, June 11, 2006

creative spelling

Juma's been learning to read--and write, using "creative spelling." He sounds out the word and writes what he hears. This morning, I helped him type out last night's dream:

Juma’s dream, night of 6-10-06

Jragn lin yu haws I was awtsid

(There was a dragon and a lion and you were in the house. I was outside.)

He continued to type, both for fun and to spell some names.

No cbmg bnm and

vvvhbcggbhbjh

juma

Justin

Saru (Sarah)

Gfds

Donld duc

Hjhbhvhv

Gfffcfgv vvbjfhghheryttdsrerhfh

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I thought I had some linguistic skills, but that last entry
(Gfffcfgv vvbjfhghheryttdsvevhfh)
has me stumped. An interpretation?
GPa Beckham

Sarah said...

It's Finnish! Can't you tell? Nah, that one he was just typing away.

Anonymous said...

sorry--Finnish doesn't have b's or c's. Sounds more like Czech or Serbian to me--maybe a word or two of lower German:) What a kid!