Today I was sitting in a Starbucks grading papers. We’ve been learning about writing friendly letters in 2nd grade, and my students were assigned a classmate to write a letter to. They had to follow the outlines of a letter, including heading, greeting, closing, etc. Here’s some of the letters that caused a little concern for Josh and I. Though we did also have a laugh or two. See if you can find the comment that might make it on the news if left unchecked. (Punctuation, spelling and capitalization as given.)

February 7th, 2006

Dear Jill*

How are you Doing today? are you feel go today? How old are you? are you eight? What is youy mother name? Becusase my mother name is Susan and my mother is nise and How Do your Body lookes? and Do you Have good friend? and Do you have a sither

love from Patrick

Feb. 7th, 2006

Dear Mepali,

I like your hair. I like your clothes. I like your shoes. How old are you? What color are you? Everyday I like how you come in and have a great happy smile. You are very nice. For a indian you are very smart. I really like having a friend like Mepali.

Love your friend,
Molly

*Names have been changed to protect the not-so-innocent.