Spelling
I'm kind of in love with Edith's spelling sentences. Each week the students have to make up sentences incorporating their spelling words. It's the only night of the week that the spelling homework involves creativity, and I get a kick out of the way Edith's mind works, as seen in her sentences. A few samples follow.
List (2 weeks combined)
quicken
pinkish
shipment
chipmunk
gruffness
investment
cupful
fondness
selfish
handful
kindness
limitless
plumpness
pumpkin
water
knew
know
constituents
United States
electoral college
public
pumpkin
mimic
fantastic
index
polishes
disrupting
mascots
1. The chipmunk was fantastic until someone disrupted it.
2. I mimic a pumpkin by being round and still.
3. Please look in the index for the shoe polishes again.
4.We saw the mascots in the public pumpkin patch.
5. I have a fondness for kindness.
6. You are a selfish handful!
7. Would you invest [in] us if we gave you a cupful of root beer?
8. Someone had some gruffness even though in their heart their [sic] was kindness.
9. I think a pumpkin's plumpness is limitless.
4 comments:
Whoa-- your second grader's spelling list includes "constituents"? Color me impressed.
Her sentences are fabulous (-:
Yeah, I can't quite figure out the logic of the spelling lists, except that there clearly was that set of election-oriented words in there last week. "Constituents" definitely stands out. On inquiry, it was determined that Edith had no idea was a constituent was, although she had mastered that the electoral college was "this really complicated, weird way of choosing the president...well, I don't really get it." I figure she's probably on par with the average American adult on that score now.
Was #6 directed at anyone in particular? Or are things quieter on the sister squabbling front these days?
What a coincidence - I think a pumpkin's plumpness is limitless, too!
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