Homework

The first week or so of school is always full of rules, and expectations; lots of drills and practices. For most kids, that’s exciting because it boils down to NO homework. ;) But not Madelyn. She has been so excited for two things: Social Studies and homework. For the last few days, she’s been coming home telling us about how soon they’ll be learning social studies, and that spelling was coming, too! I kid you not, these comments were accompanied by serious jumping up and down with hands waving in the air!

So, you can imagine the excitement when Madelyn came home on Monday with spelling words! As a matter of fact, she couldn’t even wait to get home to tell me. She had to call me from Chris’s cell to tell me the good news! I smiled so big. I love her zest for learning, and hope that it will stay for a while.

We were proud when we saw her first practice with the words, and I thought I’d share it since it’s her first "official" spelling list. She aced them all in practice, and then again when she wrote them with us that night. She said they were “kindergarten” words. I think there was a part of her that wanted a little bit of a challenge. I told her they will get harder as the year goes on and that she should be happy she knew all of them. J