Aidan

Aidan has a journal that he writes in most days as part of his schoolwork. It has been cute to see what he comes up with. Most of the time he draws a picture and writes about what is happening in the picture. Other times I tell him what topic to write on. I don't tell him how to spell anything (usually) because I just want him to be comfortable writing and to be able to get his ideas down.

Here is a word from a recent entry: uthallsun

Do you have any idea what this word could be?

Here is some context:
"The castle guys are fighting the bad guy. The castle guys wun becouse they had uthallsun men and the other teem had one guy."

This one took me a minute, but he means "a thousand."

I get his spelling words from what he misspells in his journal. It works well, because he never forgets the words after that. He has never misspelled "castle" after learning the correct spelling! I do add in other words that he needs to know, like could and would, etc.

Another cute Aidan story...

We went shopping for a present for his friend's birthday party. We picked out two small Lego pirate toys, and Aidan was concerned because one set had 1 soldier figure and 1 pirate figure, and the other set had 2 pirate figures. Aidan was concerned because 1 soldier would never be able to defeat the 3 pirates! It's funny to see life from his perspective because I wasn't considering battle odds at all when picking out the toys...

At the party, he got a spiderman pencil. Our electric pencil sharpener broke, and our hand held one tends to tear up the pencils. When Aidan's Sunday School class was discussing what they were thankful for, he said that he was thankful that he could go to Grandma's house for Thanksgiving so that he could use her sharpener to sharpen his new spiderman pencil!

What a funny guy...