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Living and Learning With the Kvenvolden Bunch
Oct. 28, 2008
OH my goodness!
It is nothing short of amazing watching how God has created each of my children so uniquely. And furthermore, its a beautiful thing watching them learn. We are finally back to a semi normal non crisis mode schedule and i was doing spelling tests this am. Chloe's spelling book was MIA so i had her work on a different language arts workbook and she was off the hook on spelling. I had Nik prepare for his spelling test and i watched him. He underlined the word carefully as he sounded the word out slowly aloud. he did this with all the words and he managed to get only one wrong! As he was doing his test, he'd recite the words aloud. As he struggled, i wanted to say to him, "Write the words down! then you can SEE if they are spelled right!" but he's an auditory learner and i'm visual. What works for me, doesn't necessarily work well for him, so i resisted and let him continue on with his own methods. He did great! Then i gave alex HIS spelling test. Nik perched on the side of the table, and comically made sentences with each of the words i gave alex. He had us all cracking up laughing with his hillarious sentences and funny faces. He got them almost all right! He missed "Affidavit" and another one, but he got "resurrect" and "consolidate" and words like that! So while Nik has a HARD TIME with spelling, even very simple words, his vocabulary is out of this world excellent! Alex, meanwhile, was working feverishly on his spelling. His method was carefully scrawling the word on the paper, looking at it, then reciting it. Often he'd erase what he wrote and rewrote it before he recited it. Alex is very visual. He, like I, needs to SEE the word before he can spell it. Its really remarkable. I really enjoy being a part of this beautiful unfolding of my children's intellect! What a priviledge!
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