More things they say!

At the end of term my 6 yr old grandson was complaining about the lessons they'd been having ( a lot of stuff about reflections "which I already know") his final comment was "I hope the lessons will be stronger next year!"

A five-year-old teenager!

Exactly how 'aged', anno? (Bet his mum feels aged too! )

That should read 'aged 5'!

my youngest GS, now aged, was having a dispute with his mum who wanted him to do something he didn't want to do - as usual. He ended up shouting at her, 'My choice, my life!' Where do they get these things from?

I am in BIG trouble with DD. She has just called after DGS aged 2 returned home from here to say he was playing with a toy and said 'broke - bugger'

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mamie no flies on that GD!

The answer was, 'Don't speak with your mouth full, Nanadog

Same GD in argument with elder sister: "Your cat is too fat". DD to DGD: "Now, you know that isn't true." "I know, but she said it to me (this is true, her cat is fat) and I wanted her to feel the pain..."

And the answer was........?

When GS3 was about 3 he stayed with us overnight because his older brother had fallen off his bike and had to be taken to hospital with a broken arm.

Wanting to spoil him, I cooked his favourite roast chicken. As he was tucking in he said, 'Is this the same chicken we had last time I was here or is it a new one?'

Had to read that twice mamie before I got it!
grannyk you walked into that one.

GS age 6 'nana what do you say to a knight when he's going to bed'
Nana 'I don't know what do you say?'
GS 'night, night, knight'

He made that one up too.

DGD1 has taken to making up her own jokes some of which are excrutiating really bad but I thought this was quite clever -

DGD - Granny what happens on the first day of September?

ME - That's easy, it is your Birthday.

DGD - And what happens on the last day of September?

ME - after much puzzling 'I have no idea'.

DGD - Oh you do know Granny, you were singing it yesterday.
The big ship sails on the Eely, Ally Oh, on the last day of September

Us to 7 year old GD. "Be careful coming down the stairs."
GD:"It's OK, I'm holding on to the barrister".
Phew! That should be OK with Injuries 'R Us.

My DGD2 (3rs) is still giggling about 'Winnie the Pooh' ... "It sounds a bit like ' we need a poo'".. she laughed to herself for ages! She does suffer from glue ear!

When GD was about 3/4 we bought her a play golf set....Granddad was giving the instructions on how to stand and strike the ball etc...and he said "Keep your eye on the ball" ...she picked the ball up and held it on her eye....Memories ..

Thanks, Nellie, glad to be of some help.
Jodi, I meant he was wrong with the spelling although right with the sound.
Using terminology like that makes it easier for teachers to write their interminable reports, I think. It was hard enough to get them to use verbs, adjectives and nouns, without explaining digraphs and morphemes, etc.
When I was at college, I remember doing an assignment on using ITA, the initial teaching alphabet, one sound one symbol, invented by Pitman, I think.
So there would be no problem with mixing up ai or a-e, they would all be spelt the same.
My eldest son learnt to read that way. Then, of course, you had to learn to read the traditional way.

I think I may have posted this elsewhere but it still makes me smile. DS came running into the kitchen he had been listening to the radio. ''Mummy'', he said,''It's Shakespeare's birthday can we go to his party?'' DD, who at 6, was two years older said,'' Don't be silly, it's much too far!''

Thanks JenD i am a little bit the wiser now. I don't thing such things as digraphs were invented when I went to school, we just wrote them without knowing what they were.

DS1 (now 34) used to refer to a particular high street store as "Marks & 'Spensive"

grannybags reminds me of when I was teaching and I heard one boy say to another "just write 'sex' that will do".
I leaned over to see what was going on and he was writing 'secs'' .... instead of seconds and 'mins' instead of minutes.

Oops...digraph not diagraph nanadog

Actually the kid was right jen he thought train was spelled trane, and a-e is a split diagraph, as you pointed out.
What do they teach them at school? we used to call it the magic E rule.

When he was 6 my nephew came home from school and announced "I had sex at school today!" Looking round at our shocked faces he explained. He'd had "seconds" (secs), meaning a second helping of pudding. What a relief!

A digraph is a sound written down made up of two letters, such as sh or th, or in this case ai or a-e.
The sound ai in train is a digraph. The same sound can be split as in pane, the e making it an ai sound, instead of an a sound.
Hope this makes sense.
When we learned to read and write, we were never taught the correct names for this until we were studying language in high school.
So the kid was wrong but he used the right terminology.
My grandson would never get that wrong, because he plays train simulators so much on the computer.