The 8- and 9-year-old kids yesterday were a fairly fun lot. Noisy and goofy but generally fun. The one bad actor left in the middle of the day after throwing a tantrum over what the cafeteria was serving for subsidized lunch. Her mother came and took her out, sharing with the staff that her kid was justified in being angry, as according to her, the school serves 'nasty food'. Bye-bye, now.
I then gave them a spelling test, with words like:
carried
hurried
daily
wrapped
etc.
I added three 'challenge' words of my own, purely for my own amusement:
"Truthfulness. Truthfulness. The politician's speech lacked truthfulness. Truthfulness".
"Institution. Institution. My uncle went nuts and we put him in an institution. Institution".
"Salami. Salami. My mother made us salami sandwiches. Salami".
Out of a class of twenty-two, four spelled truthfulness correctly, one girl nailed institution, and surprisingly, nobody got salami. The closest was 'salame'. The others were things like 'slammy', 'salmy', 'solomny' etc. I guess it's better than the misspellings of 'wrapped', with three unrelated examples of 'raped'.
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Little One would falls into the age group that you taught, and I wonder how she would do with those words. I may test her, if I can remember the words. I am pretty sure she wouldn't get all of the challenge words.
ReplyDeleteI wonder, if the food is that nasty why the mom wouldn't try to send something from home, even if food is hard to come by.
Little One prefers to buy lunch at school because she doesn't like to tote a lunchbox.
I wasn't really looking for success exactly, I was kind of interested in HOW the kids spelled the words, to see how they were thinking. Were they sounding out word parts? Were they just flat guessing? I mean, what?
ReplyDeleteAs far as the mom taking her kid home, that kid is awful. She pitches a tantrum (at the age of 9), and her mom comes to school and takes her home firing broadsides at the school for providing a free, fully subsidized lunch the little ***** doesn't LIKE, well... color me not caring.
Oh; not to be cynical, but bring something from home? And waste that precious food stamp money on FOOD!? Don't be ridiculous!