Daughter's spellings for tonight
 

She has to learn:

omnibus
omnipresent
omnidirectional
omnipotent
omnivorous
omniscient
ultrasound
ultrasonic
ultramarine
ultrastructure
ultraviolet
ultra high frequency

at age 9. Go figure.

Re: Daughter's spellings for tonight
 

Thats ridiculous as most (all?) those are compound (???) words. The roots are tricky enough as its is (I dont have a 9 year old tho!! :lol:) but just teach the word and then how you can add prefixes surely?

:smt101 :smt017 :smt101

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Better to start at that age I suppose. They are starting to teach French at age 8 now. I didnt start till I was 11. Maybe thats why when we last went to Paris the waiters always had a slightly quizzical look.....

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Wow, it is good that she is being streched, but when will a 9 yo actually use those words? Does she have to know what they mean as well?

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Ed my daughters 9 to, i know exactly where your coming from.
my daughter got upset at school today because she couldn't do a maths question i'll try and explain - choose a 2 digit number and multiply it with another 2 digit number - do this twice but the 2 answers added together must total 1100. (shes 9)

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Wow, I'm going for the dictionary - never heard of an ultrastructure before!

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I looked it up to, I reckoned it was a made word. nope!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrastructure

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I'm not certain about this one, but I'm guessing its some kind of 'know all' :lol:

omniscient

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Intriguing! I was expecting an ultrastructure to be a physically big thing, but the definition appears to be little different from microstructure.

Never too old to get the benefit of a primary school education!!!

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ha ha I cant even spell half of them.....