Jacob the Speller????? Is it possible?

I've written before about how Jacob struggles with spelling. Just memorizing word lists is not something that he seems able to do ~~ which is fine ~~ I realize people learn different ways. Knowing this, I bought a different spelling program for him than the other kids are using. One that seemed an outrageous price for the tiny book I received.

Day one of this spelling program has the child write the sentence, "We are beginning to be good spellers." Jacob spelled a couple of words wrong - including are.

Well, something happened yesterday that if I had false teeth would have made me drop them.

I reviewed Day 4 of the program because we had been gone to Jamie's and I knew on day 5 the book said he was supposed to be able to spell the word beginning. Yeah, right.

Day 4 words were given and he missed a couple of them. He missed pinning (pining) and be (by) = yes, that's right bY for the word be. That's my little speller.

So it was with a large dose of skepticism in my voice when he said, "are there any bonus words?" that I replied, "Yeah, spell beginning."

And he DID.

That's another reason I homeschool. I didn't have to wait for hours to hear about it later ~~ I experienced that breakthrough with him. The sheer joy on his face when he realized he had spelled it correctly could have been a VISA commercial -- it was priceless.