Yesterday, I asked Bear to write a sentence using at least 2 of his 20 vocabulary words. He said he didn't want to because, he couldn't spell. I promised him that if he sounded out the words, it would be fine.

"OK, but I still don't want to," he announced, marching off with a green maker and his notebook.

He wrote:

My name is Bear, tooday is Tuesday in 2009. Aquatic mammals like the whales livz (lives) in the ocean. The tide is made bie the moon.

[other side of the paper] This is Bear and I like to stutea (study) aquatic mammals. They are cool!

He presented it to me with a huge grin, and then read it to me twice.

People ask me why I homeschool, and I guess this is my answer. In fact, I went to Goodwill today and bought a flatbed scanner (for $7) just so I could upload his recent flurries of creative writing.

I know it may not seem like much. But Bear has perception issues much like dyslexia. So this? Is the whole, beautiful, wide world. He wrote 4 sentences more than I asked, just for the fun of it. The same boy who, last month after Christmas, was reduced to hysterics when I tried to get him to write thank-you notes.

It's a razor walk, to keep him interested and eager to read and write despite the struggle. We give up, a lot. But then, one day, he writes about how the tide is made bie the moon - and I just.... melt.

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