Madeleine's Workbook

Madeleine recently discovered an unused writing workbook that Yiayia had passed along to us, and she took the bold decision to dive into it all by herself.  Over the past several days, members of the Rowe household have come across Madeleine diligently writing in her workbook at the dining room table, in complete silent concentration.

Today I had a chance to peek at what Madeleine has done.  Since she can't read the instructions, she's had to take it upon herself to figure out what she's actually supposed to do.

In one instance, Madeleine interpreted the instructions to write "ar" words as an invitation to write what appears to be consecutively increasing numbers followed by a string of binary:

In other instances, in place of writing down a list of spelling words, Madeleine has attempted to construct her own kindergarten-spelled sentences:

"This is the best daa evrr.  Wee oll saa day day day Mom Mom Dith you put panduu in the prrllrr?  Grrraeammu dith itt.  Monster Monstrr see weerr siiszzrr Monster Monstr."

I didn't put panda in the parlor.  It was totally Grandma who did it.  And it was definitely Monster Monstrr who see weerr siiszzrr Monster Monstr, whatever the heck that means.


On another page, in place of a study list of review words, Madeleine decided to whip up a mix of short sentences and (sometimes backwards) number repetitions:

"I love Mommy I love Julia my to seth Mommy.  M 3 seth Daddy."

Props for actually using one of the review words, Madeleine! - even if you did spell it "my" the first time and "M" the second time, instead of "me." Also, either the narrator speaks with a lisp, or Madeleine continues to mishear the hard "t"/"d" sound as a "th."  It all depends on whether she meant "says" or "said" when she wrote "seth."


Regardless of her misinterpretation of the workbook's instructions, I give Madeleine three cheers for devoting her time summer homework of her own accord.  This kid is ready to take on kindergarten, seth her mommy!