Grammar

Just thought I'd share an incident that occurred in my SEU group last year when the children (two of my better spellers) were leaning about past tense.

The activity required the children to write the word for if something happened 'yesterday'. One student worked very capably until the third example. Today I bring. Yesterday I brought. Today I think. Yesterday I thought. Today I blink. Yesterday I blought. I sat down to explain to him that our words can be funny things and the same spelling pattern doesn't hold true for every example. I then told him that 'blought' wasn't a real word. The boy at the next desk spoke up very proudly and said, "I got it right. I wrote blunk."