WRITING: 20 Spelling

The variety of O's writing includes writing STORIES ( hard ) , writing words BY HEARING ( was very hard but is getting easier, slowly), copying words with the same patterns as he learns to read them from PHONICS ( easy ) and SPELLING ( easy).

I'm thinking, that perhaps it would be an idea to stop doing phonics words for now and just do consistent spelling lists, because it seems like the tasks are targeting the same knowledge base, but with both, it could get a bit too much as well as a bit confusing.  So. Yep.  We are doing spelling only. Oliver loves them and finds them very easy.  I found that with the variety of writing he does in a week, one week of the same 20 words to spell is not enough, so we have the same list for 2 weeks. Nothing like nice easy and agreeable lessons which are also very useful and necessary!

Next on the list, I'm thinking , will be the easiest and most common words in English.  I'm hoping that it would really help him with his stories, for example!

( ...with brother's doodles of approval! Jo-Jo is dying to start 'reading /writing' he keeps mentioning it and butting in!)