This morning has had it's interuptions...so I sent my 6 yr old ds to the table to wait for me to come do phonics and handwriting with him.  Well 15 mins had passed before I made it back to the table and he had already started without me.  For some reason I can't get my pics to post or I would show you how sweet this is to me.

He had drawn a picture of a stingray in a tank and above it he had written the following..."I hve a pt stngry."  He was so proud of his work.  He said,"Mommy I think I did not spell it right, can I do it on another page and you can help me spell it right?' The teacher in me wanted to put it aside and move on to the phonics curriculum...but the Charlotte Mason Momma said,"Sure, how about we use this for your handwriting and phonics today!"   To which the crowd roarded and the angles sang in unison YES, YES, LET HIM LEARN! :)

So we got out our drawing/writing paper and he illustrated the stingray adding some new elements, and I wrote all of the words that he had mispelled on the lines below.  He copyed the mispelled words and then wrote the correct sentence at the top of his drawing...it is priceless. It is that easy!

Don't let those golden moments pass you buy, look for them, use them, and treasure them.

Blessings,

Karla