Princess’ first conference for 1st grade was partially student-led; she sat with us and the teachers and showed us some of her work and read some stuff to us. One thing I love about her teachers is that even in first grade, the kids have to do a LOT of writing, and they are expected to capitalize and punctuate properly and work really hard at spelling. I just love reading their stories that they bring home . . . the English language should be changed so that all words are spelled how a typical 6-8 year old would spell them 
Princess starting reading her “What my family likes to do together” paper to us . . . it started out . . .
“I like to spend time with mi family.”
She got to “mi” and threw her hands over her head and said “Did I SERIOUSLY spell my with an ‘i’? I can’t believe I did that!”
HA! I love to see Dude and Princess grow in their academics I think it’s great that at 6 she’s realizing that just because she’s a good reader doesn’t mean she’s a good speller, but she’s getting it and figuring it out. And I’m sure she’ll never spell my with an ‘i’ again