Clara asking how to spell cat, prompted Joe to write the sentence above on the magna doodle board. You can see the phonetic spelling he is learning about in kindergarten on display with "noe" standing in for know, and "spel" for spell. Do, you, how, to, and the are all sight words that he knows. Cat is missing its final letter because Our Hero got sort of excited about the sentence he'd written all by himself.
It's really something to watch him figure things out on his own, which he is more apt to do if an adult isn't there to tell him the correct way to spell a word or explain a concept that he has some familiarity with, but doesn't know inside and out. At such times, he just powers through with what he's got. Like this morning, Julie took Joe to buy some donuts while Ted and Birdie slept in a bit. Joe had gotten up first, and was in his room busily filling out pages in his All About Me book, which he then wanted to take with him. That's how Julie and Joe ended up discussing how many clocks were in the house in the Byerly's parking lot. Julie didn't say much other than to take it room by room. It wasn't long before Joe said that there was one for sure on "that thing up high that we cook in sometimes and goes round and round": the microwave. We don't use it often enough to say the word very often, but he knew just how to describe it!
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