Star WHAT?

A1 is really smart. She loves school. I hope she stays like that. She started reading when she was 4 and she knew how to spell a lot of words before she started kindergarten. She knew all the sight words that kindergartners need to know by the end of the year when she started kindergarten. She is really good at sounding out words and spelling them. The other day she was making a chore list for herself and she wanted to write exercise on it. Why? I don't know. No matter what I said to her I could not persuade her that exercising is not a chore. So she wrote it. Exersize. Close enough.

Hubby and I were going through her Friday folder from school and looking at all of her work that she had done for the week and came across some really interesting things. First of all, she is a very good artist. Some things she draws you wouldn't believe a 6 year old did them. There was picture in her folder of her and A2 on the swing set in our back yard, which was excellent, and she had written some sentences about the picture. They read: I wint to the playground. My sister wint with me. We had fun.

Simple enough. Honest spelling mistake. Then we read a classroom rule that she had made up. It said something about if there is a "dore" you shouldn't be "runing" because you "myit" run into the "dore". Hubby and I DIED laughing. How funny is that. OK, leaving out the n in running is understandable. Even spelling the word "might" is hard because it is a word with silent "gh" sound. But she has known how to spell "door" since before she started kindergarten. I guess we didn't read enough this summer. However, I was thinking, we do live in the south and we do have southern accents and are around southern accents all the time so when some people say words like "went" it probably does sound like "wint". Those are papers we will keep forever and laugh about when she gets older.

Well, there is one other word that she really screwed up. Lately she had become obsessed with Indiana Jones and Star Wars. We have watched all the Indy movies except the new one and now we are watching Star Wars. We probably watched the first SW a dozen times this weekend. Like I said, she's a great artist and she LOVES to draw so she drew a picture of R2-D2. I was putting a movie in the DVD player and she wanted to show me her picture. I glanced at it and saw her cute little R2-D2 and she pointed out to me that she wrote "Star Wars" a the top of the paper. "Oh that's great A1" I say. So she ran to show daddy. Hubby calls to me from the bedroom, "Hey mommy, did you see A1's picture?" "Yeah, It's good" I yell back. "No, did you see how A1 spelled Star Wars?" he asked. Again, I said "I saw the picture, it is good." "Did you read it?" hubby says.

I walk in the room to see what he's talking about, pick up the picture and actually read the words this time. Like the first time I saw it, it had a really cute picture of R2-D2 on it only this time I read what it said and about choked. It simply said "Star Whors". Hubby and I were trying so hard to hold back our laughs that we were sputtering. I had to walk out of the room to compose myself. I came back and told her that she did a good job sounding out the word "war" but it wasn't spelled that way. Needless to say, I made her change it. I don't want anything sitting around my house that says "Star Whors" on it. What would people think?