Spelling words are a big thing around our house. At the beginning of the school year....not so much. The first couple word lists pretty much kicked Lucas and Eli to the curb. With some tweaking from their teachers they now are very into learning the new words each week.
Unfortunately (fortunately - depends on which side of the screaming you are on) the competitive spirit rules in this arena too. There aren't any sports the boys are participating in right now so they've developed the dueling spelling words competition.
Lucas, being the "older, wiser brother", takes great joy in letting Eli know he already knows all of Eli's words. Eli who has all of the sudden developed into this spelling machine, takes great offense to this. The words on his list are his and his alone....no one else on the planet may spell these words.
Mike and I have to find very separate places to practice with each of them, as we have Lucas screaming the spelling words off of Eli's list before Eli has a shot. I never thought spelling words could be a full contact sport but maybe the education field has missed a prime opportunity to advance boys' educational performance by not encouraging this new sport. For me....I'll just be glad when basketball starts.
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