Day Three

Full Marks!

Every Friday at school Callum has a spelling test. How it goes is that on Friday he gets sent home with his blue homework folder which has a task in to be done by Wednesday of the following week and a list of spellings to be learnt for the following Friday. Each Friday they get tested and given new spellings to learn. Also the class is split into colour co-ordinated groups depending on the level of learning the child is up to. Red is the top group and they have to learn all twenty words. Of course the lower groups can go beyond their group if they wish but there is not any pressure to do so. Callum is in yellow group which is the one below red but he likes to do all the words and pretty much gets them all right. We start to learn the new words on a Tuesday and on Wednesday and Thursday we have our own mini spelling test. Usually on the Tuesday there will be one or two words that Callum will get wrong but by Wednesday/Thursday he knows how to spell them. Then once a month I retest Callum on a selection of words that he has learnt that month, just to keep him on his toes. This week as you can see from the above photo there were a few tough words but most were easy. And that's the other thing. I'm amazed at times the words that Callum finds easy to spell and the ones he finds hard, "because" was a word he found really really easy to spell, got it right first time yet a word like "morning" that is spelt how it pretty much sounds out he had trouble with. I'm pretty confident he'll do well tomorrow.

And as you can tell he was mighty happy he got 20/20 in tonight's spelling test.

YESSSS!!