Many of you asked me to post a picture of Avery’s peanut butter survey that I wrote about the other day so here it is. I expect you are a bit disappointed as you may have been expecting a tidy sheet with columns and neat rows of legible printing. Well, she’s only 5 people! But you can see that she wrote out the names in pen and then the pencil check marks are next to the names of those kids who said they liked peanut butter. In case you need some interpretation of the “information” I am providing the translation below:
Duoo Lik Penat Batr (Do you like peanut butter?)
Niklis (Nicholas) Reena (Reena) Jack (Jack)
Cial (Kyle) Cia (Kya) Iay (Alyia)
Yasmin (Yasmin) Jiaoleeana (Juliana)
Romee (Romy) Sbastin (Sebastian)
Kasee (Kasey) David (David)
Alasin (Allison) Louias (Louis)
Alasoja (Alessandra)
It turns out I was wrong about her remembering 18 names. There are 20 kids in Avery’s class, if you don’t count Avery. So either she was mistaken when she told me she only missed 3 kids and she actually missed 5. Or Perhaps 2 of the kids she missed were absent that day in which case she was right that she only missed 3 of the 18 kids who were in school.
October 14th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Have to say that is one of the cutest things i’ve ever seen.
She can put my name on the survey
October 14th, 2008 at 10:03 am
I love the fact that she uses mixed case printing. I see more adults using mixed case these days (myself included). Either Avery is highly evolved, or we’re all devolving.
October 14th, 2008 at 10:53 am
This is so adorable! I love it. Can I hire Avery to do surveys for me?
October 14th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
I love it! love it! The depth of her comprehension for her age. that will take her far. Keeping her challenged in school may be the tricky part.
October 14th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Too cute!!
October 14th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
That’s so cute.
And I’m actually very impressed with the way she sounded out words. You can see she was aiming for phonetically-correct names when she was writing. I think you’ve landed yourself a smart cookie there.
October 14th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Oh, btw, when did she actually DO this survey? At recess?
October 15th, 2008 at 5:45 am
Avery is AWESOME!