Kids nkoka on 11 Jan 2010 03:04 pm
‘Address’ing Smartness
Every Monday Shivani has a pre-test. If she scores 100% in pretest she does not have to take the real test on Friday. But she would be doing homework on more harder spelling words (enrichment english). Last night I made her write all the words on a sheet of paper. As she missed couple, I wanted her to rewrite all the words, which she did not like. She answered back “I will spell out words but I will not write all of them again.” I said “Spelling out loud is not as effective as writing them down. If you write them down you will remember them pretty good.” She just did not want to write them, so she said “If I write it down they will be on paper, but if I spell it out loud they will reside in my brain for ever.” I teasingly said if she spells them out loud they will disappear in air. “Air is everywhere, I will use these spelling words from air at school” said Shivani.