Spelling is going very well. For climbers I am using two words she has misspelled in her "on my own" writing and one word from her new vocabulary words (we find a lot in the Nature Friend magazines).
In the spelling lessons, K. is learning to add suffixes correctly. She was having a difficulty in being able to explain to me when to add 'er' and 'est'. To work on this I made a board game. On the board there are 30 scenes (from clip art). I also printed out 40 cards with words that can be made comparative and superlative. To play, on each person's turn, they flick the spinner and move that many spaces (scenes). Then they take the card from the top of the stack and make up a sentence with that word about the scene they landed on. Some of the scenes have one person or animal, some two, and others three or more, so you have to use the correct suffix. We have played it once and it was a lot of fun! If you use the wrong suffix, you have to go back two spaces. The first one to the end wins.
Example: Scene is two people roasting hot dogs; word is cold; sentence might be: The man's hot dog is colder than the boy's.
I included words that don't get the 'er' or 'est' added -- you use 'more' or 'most' -- and some irregular ones, such as good and bad.
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