Holy moley – as Jon’s teacher Tami said in her note home today: “Every time I raise the bar he meets it, even faster than I could have expected or hoped for!”

Tami decided that for his spelling tests she would use each word in a simple sentence, which he would then type out. Today, Jon decided he wanted to be tested (remember, he only got his new list yesterday). Then he asked to generate the sentences himself. Tami thought this would make the exercise more meaningful for him so she agreed.

Well, he sailed through coming up with and typing the 10 sentences, and spelled all the words perfectly. He self-corrected himself two times with that tough word “building”, but finally nailed it. The only word he asked for help with was “butterfly” (a word not on his list), used in the sentence

I like to see the butterfly fly.

He first asked if “butt was “t” or “t-t”, and then asked if “er” was “r” or “e-r”. The spelling word was “fly”, so he had no trouble with that part. And then laughed uproariously because there were two instances of “fly” right next to each other.

Jon’s new spelling list includes the words “weather” and “channel”. This one’ll go very quickly!

Tami’s goal is to now get Jon to do writing (either his creative writing or spelling sentences) every day. When I think about where he was at the beginning of the school year, it makes my head spin!