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Abby came home from tumbling one night singing a new cheer she learned that said “R-O-W-D-I-E, that’s the way you spell rowdy”. I’m hoping she heard it wrong but I told her that that is NOT the way you spell rowdy. She tried to argue with me so I explained that each word has a certain spelling and you aren’t supposed to change that spelling just because you want to. I pulled out the dictionary and explained that it contained the correct spelling for all the words so we can check and see how words are supposed to be spelled. I looked up the word rowdy and showed it to her. She decided that I must be right.

Later on, I explained to her what a spelling bee is and she was excited about the contest aspect of it and now asks me to pick words for her to try to spell. So, every night when I lay down in her bed to “talk” I have to come up with several words and she will try to spell them for me. During the day she will randomly try to spell certain words out loud and we can either correct her, or praise her for doing a good job. She is getting better and better.

Tyler does not like to be left out of the spelling game so he also randomly tries to spell words. Tonight at the dinner table he says “how do you spell Jumanji (we had watched it the night before)?. So, I told him J-U-M-A-N-J-I. He then said “I know how to spell door”. I was impressed thinking he really is learning stuff at preschool so I said “how”? Without skipping a beat he very confidently says “H-A-K-E-R”. We all chuckled and Abby told him the correct spelling of door.

Anyway, I think it’s funny how he likes to be a part of things and can’t let his sister have all the glory from spelling.

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