Zander's "invented spelling"

Zander was at work with me yesterday and he went to the fridge and decided to make a menu of what I had in there. He asked for help with yogurt which I sounded out the sounds for him and he spelled. Then he didn't want me to see the rest and he spelled on his own. Then he said "Here Mama, I made you a menu!"



I LOVE IT. He did such a good job!

Broccoli
Cheerios
Crackers

But you can see how he sounded it out in his mind and spelled it. For some reason when he spells/writes on his own he sometimes writes the first letter backwards. He knows his letters and which way they go and when I ask him to spell things he never does this. He only does this when he's writing without my help.

Still, I'm totally proud of him. It's very normal for kids to spell like this: http://www.naturalchild.com/guest/margaret_phinney2.html