Yesterday Alanya came home with her first official spelling list. If you can remember back to first grade, can you remember how that was an exciting thing? No clue of the hundreds of spelling lists to come, she was finally "big" like her brothers. She proudly used a magnet and put that list up on the refrigerator. no. at. cat.
As she skipped off, Ben came up and looked at it with me. The spelling pro that he is being in second grade, he remembers well how the first grade list is set up - 10 words and 5 optional words for those who want to be more challenged. Ben always did all 5 optional words. He looked at the list. an. ran. man.
He took a deep breath and said, "Mom, what do you think? I think she should have one week to get used to it and not do the optionals, and then next week maybe choose one optional word to try. I think five big words is too much for her." It was true concern in his eyes as he tried to protect his little sister. He's no fool. I readily agreed that we should take some time to ease into the optional words. will. mom. dad.
Later in the evening when Daddy came home she proudly spelled October while reading it straight from her list. She was so proud of herself. Then Ben got the list down and asked if she wanted to 'play school' with her spelling words. He quizzed her, and made word scrambles, and started a word find. Alanya thought they were playing and had no idea. He really does love her.
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