For the week of 4/26/10 I implemented my younger child to practice a strategy not listed in the How to practice spelling post. I call this center the picture to bead spelling. This works great for him. I strung his spelling words together and seperated them by a colored bead. Then I found and printed silly pictures that matched his word. He independently goes over to his “center” and looks for words and matches it to the picture. He showed his grandfather on Saturday how well he could spell. My father then asked him, “how come you are spelling so well now?” To which my son replied, “oh, well let me show you my spelling word center.”
I love that it seems to work well for him. I love even more that he wanted to show off his new found ability.
looks like this one is a keeper.
This week (5/10/10) I had my oldest write her misspelled words from last week on some homemade sugar cookies with a food marker… She has not misspelled them again. My youngest had to be just like his big sis and write his words on cookies too. Spelling has become fun!
I am way behind on these journals!
The week of (3/8/11) My son was practicing his swat spelling. He preferred to call it knight killing spelling… hey, whatever gets him moving. This was a great game. I was having him look at pictures and write his spelling words beside them,and he was dragging his feet on this activity. He seemed to need another 8 hours of sleep, and then hopefully, he would wake up happier. When we hit walls like this in our classroom, I try to remember to change it up. Who cares if the worksheet gets completely filled in, our goal is to create life long learners… how is a worksheet in first grade going to produce that? (AIEEEE, Nicole! What about handwriting. What about the discipline of finishing what you start. Sometime, somewhere, there is going to be someone who will not let him stop; he’ll have to fill all the blanks in then. Is he even going to be able to, if you are always changing it when he’s bored!) Listen up, all you “must have the lines filled out the I’s dotted the T’s crossed”! The world & each day has multiple lessons to teach due diligence and handwriting; worksheets are not the way. If I want my son to even think about getting to higher level education, I must let him fall in love with learning now at his young age. Degrees are a labor of love, if he begins a hatred of school in 1st grade, how the heck am I even going to get him through 11 more years, before he even starts on his first degree? A dear friend’s words come to my mind now, He said to me ( he was well above 80 with a full, well traveled life, so he knew what he was talking about) “Nicole, don’t worry about the tests you fail, God will provide you with many more opportunities to pass it again.” I pass these words on to you now, homeschooling parents and friends, please take it to heart!
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