Last year, the lass was so excited about homework that she would come home and complete it as soon as she received it, despite the fact that as a kindergartner, the assignments were due whenever the kids chose to finish them. The Wife and I were very impressed.
Now that’s she’s in 1st grade, her only real homework each week is reading and studying for her spelling tests. After a couple of weeks, she’s decided that studying for her spelling tests is not so much fun. She typically has only 8 to 10 words to work on.
So she has her test coming up tomorrow and I sat going through the words with her. This weeks words are: trip, trap, grass, grab, crab, crib, grand and craft. The final two are bonus words. I guess the emphasis is on learning blended sounds like the “tr” and “cr”.
She didn’t like the way I went through the words because I didn’t do them in the order on the sheet. I told her that if she really knows them then the order won’t matter. She struggled a bit, but managed to get them all correct.
Since she struggled a bit, I decided to go through them again. She rolled her eyes at me after I said one of the words again and said in an exasperated tone “We’re not going to go through these like a million times, are we?”
“I promise we won’t,” I replied. “We’ll just do it as many as it takes for you to know them well.”
She did much better the second time around.