Rachel, Owen and Kathryn

Katy's take on the story by Jill Murphy, in a little folded 'book' complete with illustrated front cover, frontispiece and tailpiece. caN I Go To the moon asked Baby Bear No you can not seD mrs Bear enyway you wud need a rocket and it is yor Bath Time

Well I declare! Katy has amazed us all with her early grasp of orthography - although her spelling is still in the early stages. Given a piece of paper by her teacher headed "My news" she wrote I we[n]t to my Dad's f[ri]e[n]d's party . I think I explained in simple terms how the apostrophe works a while ago, and she's just remembered and applied it. I didn't actually use this phrase but it wouldn't now surprise me if she came out with "This is a typical example of the Anglo-Saxon genitive"!

Katy has not really enjoyed going to "nursery nursery" even just one morning a week this year, as she's been keen to leave all that behind and be a proper school girl. We had to give up on Little Petals after just a few weeks, and Victoria Road was barely tolerated (and That Accident happened there). But they did manage to achieve something really positive in entering Katy for a poetry writing "competition" ... and her little piece - crafted by slotting her own few words into a rhyme template - was actually "selected" for publication. Vanity publishing for sure, but parents are suckers for this kind of thing.