[Mo1]

When my oldest first started school and had spelling tests, the teacher said we (parents) should help them by pronouncing the words and teach them that way

Well, my daughter was having such a hard time and wasn't doing very well passing the tests ..

Luckily, I've had folks make fun of the way I speak, because I realized that was what her problem was .. how I were saying the words where not even close to how they were spelled

Now, I have her just memorized the spelling of words and thankfully I can say .. she is a better speller then her mother .. *L*

[Mo1]

Proof reading is not my friend

were = was

[Fawnn]

My spelling didn't improve until I really worked on it later. (I missed 13 out of 25 spelling words on an employment test I took for a college job. Thank goodness my SATs had been multiple choice!)

FYI to those of you to whom I'd mentioned yesterday that the farmer was finally able to get in and start harvesting the amber waves of grain in the field outside my kitchen window: My daughter just called. She's driving to work and said, because of the sporadic harvesting going on, a phrase had popped into her mind, "but amber clumps of grain just doesn't sound as poetic."