Spelling

We worked on Spelling this evening. This is Aidan's best subject in school.

A few days ago, he had worked independently on an assignment to complete a word chart for the word endings, "ed" and "ing." He had forgotten the rule about doubling the last letter in words that have a short vowel followed by just one consonant, so "slipped" was "sliped," "clubbed" was "clubed," and so on.

When we reviewed this assignment together, he enjoyed playing with how those words would sound, the way he had misspelled them. I noticed that he doesn't always know the phonetic rules for the changing sounds of vowels when we add an "e," for example. Once we went through a few, though, he picked up on the expected sounds.

Thank goodness he isn't self-critical. He actually seemed to be having some fun with the exercise.