Well, after our problem with the Delayed Recall Test on Monday, I took the rest of the week off from blogging. A lot of my days were figuring out what we should do for spelling. Everything else went really well - math, geography, science, reading, poetry, etc.
Tuesday we had home school support group Presentation Day. Rabbit recited her poem. Afterward, the kids did a Christmas craft. Wednesday was Worship Dance day. Our last day of regular dance class for this fall. (Monday we have rehearsal and performance.) Thursday was a regular day.
Friday we had the window guys come and replace windows. So, a friend graciously invited us over to do school in the morning at her house. Then, after lunch, the kids all made milk-free, gluten-free sugar cookies. I think the kids enjoyed it and had a blast. By the time we got home, the window guys (turned out it was a guy and his wife) were almost done.
Rabbit and I talked about her spelling issues and decided to change things up. Spelling Power also has a "study-test" method. We will move back to Level B, Group 6. On Monday, we will look at our new list of words together, and see if we can figure out the phonics or spelling rule the list covers. Then, Rabbit will copy those words into a "spelling dictionary." You just copy the words, no definitions required. Then on Tuesday, she is suppose to copy those words to a 10-step study sheet, and study the words, focusing on the Trace and Say steps. Wednesday I will give her a list of fill-in-the-blank sentences for her to figure out which spelling words go into which blanks. Any misspellings, she will have to study. We will probably do some spelling activity, too. Thursday, she will do a "pretest." If she gets a 100%, I will probably do one of the other games with her on Friday. If she doesn't get a 100%, then she'll study, and retest on Friday. I will also be working with her to notice sound order. That is one thing I see a lot with her when she writes.
In spite of this, on Thursday she had a "writing without curriculum assignment." I drew a photographer taking a picture of a couple of kids. She remembered that photographer started with a "ph" and that it was a "ph" for the /f/ sound in "grapher." In fact, she only missed the first "o" in the word. Then, she misspelled "picture" - as "picher" or "picker" depending on where in the sentences she was using it. It made me realize, her spelling really isn't as bad as I thought. Also, I think the length of the delayed recall test got to her.
Really, besides spelling it was a great week. I got a couple of Families of the World videos of French families, and we watched those. We also watched a Norway travel video.
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