Spelling Sentences of the Week

Children are funniest when they’re not trying to be funny. I’ve found this is usually the case when they are trying to make an adult observation. Luckily, I get the wonderful opportunity to mark the spelling homework of a Year 4/5 class (3rd/4th grade) once a week which are sometimes full of ‘wise’ observations. After writing their spelling words 5 times, they have to write a certain number of sentence using a certain number of words. Sometimes, these sentences are hilarious, as in ‘laugh out loud when you think about it even though you’re at a funeral’ hilarious. Here are just a few of my faves so far:

Spelling word was WIDE:

We don’t call fat people fat, we call them wide. (He was trying to be PC)

Spelling word was HIGH:

When it was my dad’s birthday we took him out for a surprise. He got very high… (I think she meant ‘excited’)

Spelling word was BIG:

My sisters are BIG because they ate a lot of pies. (He was not trying to be PC)

Marking spelling sentences=best part of my week.