Last week Brandt started spelling tests at school. They have a pretest on Monday when they get their new list and then their test is on Friday. The list is only 10 words and they are things like mad, dad, flat, hat, was. There are also five challenge words. This week's challenge words were pattern, ladder, subtraction, community and liquid. Pattern and ladder were from the weeks rime patterns (whatever that is) and the other three are from the content word bank.
I am a terrible speller so I have no idea what the best way to help him study is. Each night I call out the words and he spells them out loud. We do the challenge words too and then let him look at the list. We go over them a couple of times because even I had trouble spelling subtraction out loud.
This morning on the way to school we went over the list one final time. He had his list down pat and I decided to focus on pattern, ladder and liquid because subtraction and community for a first grader? I mean really!
This afternoon while we were waiting in carpool line, Campbell was playing in the back of the car and I heard pattern - rsqkle. Liquid - fgriQUkl. At least she got the qu rule. Ladder - ardkgtur, community - fhrtmdre, subtraction - lkrtfgnb and on she went, reciting his spelling list. Maybe we practiced a bit too much? Sometimes her memory amazes me.
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