Daughter's spellings for tonight

Preposterous!

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by 454697819

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

At age 10 I read Lord of the Rings.

Why do we assume that because they are kids they are stupid, or something is inappropriate.

Get them while they are young and they will learn it better and faster than when older.

Aparently the Government are now having to put resources into teaching 18-20yos how to read and write......

My advice get THEM to read The Hobbit to YOU - it might take a while, but once they have the story in their head, they will want to know what else happened to Bilbo, which is when you give them Lord of the Rings, and from there you may just inspire them to read the Harry Potter books, or The Chronicles of Narnia, rather than just watch the films......

[Ruffy]

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Aparently ......

Oops - "Apparently", I think you'll find.

Actually, I think the comments in your post are spot on and I agree totally. Unfortunately, we must also make sure that meaning is taught so that the words can be used later to construct meaningful statements and arguments. That is what really seems to be missing in the workplace.

we can only hope David...the peeps of today want everything yesterday handed on a plate, it's good to educate and motivate

and then where there is a will there is a way...

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Ruffy

Oops - "Apparently", I think you'll find.

Actually, I think the comments in your post are spot on and I agree totally. Unfortunately, we must also make sure that meaning is taught so that the words can be used later to construct meaningful statements and arguments. That is what really seems to be missing in the workplace.

Shouldn't corrections be done in red?

As for meaning - get some encycopedias (proper dead-tree ones) and a good dictionary and teach them when they ask "what does that mean" that they should go look it up.

Make them self-sufficient and train them in gathering knowledge.

Awesome. Private school? Most people are idiots

I would have thought had she not been able to learn those words she would not have been given them. Maybe she is a brights spark in the class and ahead of the rest? Why be held back by the averages in the class?

I asked the other day what my 6 year old did at school. She said mathematics and literacy. When I was at school aged six that would have been reading, writing and doing sums.

They are being taught a different way these days and it seems to be for the better. My daughter is far more cleverer at 6 than I could have hoped for.

My (only just) 7 year old was doing some work on the Crimean War the other week and had to spell:

Florence
Nightingale
Crimean

To name but a few, not even that sure I just spelt them right!!!

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

Awesome. Private school? Most people are idiots

Yes. There's pushing - and pushing. I think this is too much. We had all the 'trans' and 'auto' words the other day, 'autopsy' included - she didn't know what it meant but strangely enough we had no problem with learning it once she realised it was cutting up dead bodies.

Originally Posted by Ed

Yes. There's pushing - and pushing. I think this is too much. We had all the 'trans' and 'auto' words the other day, 'autopsy' included - she didn't know what it meant but strangely enough we had no problem with learning it once she realised it was cutting up dead bodies.

I think thats Biology 2-4 Thursdays