He got a new cast in a NEON greenish yellow. Yiykes. Hard to miss. His elbow was a lot better - much less pain and much better mobility. He still had enough tenderness that the doctor decided that two more weeks in a cast was in order -- so we will be back the morning before Thanksgiving at 7:30 to get it off. I will be glad when we are done with this saga.Ben was excited about the color and having another round of signatures.
Ben was pretty tired by the time we got through an hour of homework, so he is sitting on the couch with Nikki and Shadow watching Pokemon D&P.
This week he has spelling words from 3 work families -ast, -ust, & -and. -ast/-ust is causing a TON of confusion. He can't seem to remember how to read or spell them. If I head pust one more time I am going to scream "THERE IS NO SUCH WORD AS PUST!" [the word he is trying to read is past]. He also seems to have trouble when there are two consonants together at the beginning -- 'crust' is read as 'cast' and 'blast' is 'last'. Sigh. We are already at Wednesday and I think we are going to fail our spelling test this week. In our practice test he got 7/15 wrong and he still can't sort the words into families or read them without help. Plus the sight words 'out' and 'came' are causing conniption fits.
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Consonant blends are tricky! Paul's 1st grade teacher was a reading specialist and she's just having the kids 'try' to spell things, it doesn't matter if they get the word right or not.
Maybe you should talk to your schools' reading specialist and get some ideas? Paul spends 10 minutes on homework a night. The second graders spend 20 minutes, and so on. An hour each night just doesn't sound right.
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