Spelling, spelling, spelling..

Chance continues to bring home 100% on his spelling tests. We are amazed by this as the words are in word families which means they sound an awful lot alike. Last week two of the words were skunk and sunk. Very subtle differences. When we first went over the list with Chance, he had to focus on hearing the difference in the two words. You could practically see the cogs turning in his little head. He usually gets upset if you show him a word on the list as he wants to figure it out with out looking, so I spread the words out emphasizing each sound. His teacher goes over the list at school, making sure that the kids know what each word means. Then we have Chance verbally spell out the words each night. It seems to be working, he is discriminating between very similar words. It is fun to watch the focus Chance puts into these words. He is determined to hear the differences. Go Chance!!