If you didn't do school today, you missed out on this: 5-3-08
We put the date on everything we do and, today, my kids noticed that the date added up correctly: 5 + 3 = 08. So they put that on all their papers and were very pleased with themselves!
We don't normally have school on Saturday but yesterday was so busy that Friday's work needed to be done today. We missed so much work at the beginning of the year that I'm hesitant to miss days if we don't have to. Besides, with my dh working nights on the weekends, it's a quiet thing for my kids to do while he sleeps.
On Fridays, we have our word spelling and now Carmen has joined us. After hearing Chad and Carmen spell their words, I quizzed Alec. One of his words was "loaf" and he spelled it correctly. I wanted to make sure he knew the difference in a loaf of bread and one who loafs. So I asked him, "Alec, do you know what a "loafer" is? He said, "Yes, it's someone who bakes bread. Hey, Daddy's a loafer!" I admit I laughed until I cried. This child never fails to amuse me althought lately he's been rather obnoxious. But he's right about Daddy being a loafer because Todd does bake bread for us each week now. For the record, I set him straight on the correct definition of a "loafer" and assured him that his Daddy certainly wasn't one!
While I was recoverying from my laughing fit, Chad showed me something he had done and I unknowingly replied, "Good girl!" Oops! Everyone got hysterical over that one and it was awhile before things got calm again.
By the way, we use The Natural Speller by Kathryn Stout for our spelling. It covers spelling from 1st through 8th grade. The book is starting to show some wear now that 3 kids are using it but it has been great and was a good bargain.
Just think, I would have missed out on all of this if we didn't have school today! | 
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May. 4, 2008 - Untitled Comment
And don't forget the loafers we used to wear in high school...
Spaz & I had fun with "mis-" words during his spelling last week-- as in "mispronounciation" ("Miss Pronounciation"), the teacher, and 'misunderstanding" ("Miss Understanding"), the therapist... I use Natural Speller with him, too, as I did with my two olders (I'm sure my version is older than yours, as I bought it in '94), but I have switched Fuzz to Sequential Spelling, which I love. Spaz just finished 7th-gr words in NS, along w/affixes. NS recommends doing some Greek/Latin roots at that level as well, but instead of doing them as spelling words from the supplement pages in NS, I have ceased spelling for the year and am having him do "Word Roots" by Critical Thinking Press, which he can do on his own. Hmm, that was a lot of information you didn't ask for. :-)