kiwik Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Ds5.75 has been put in groups for most subjects now. He is I think in the top group for all areas (maybe not writing) which means in reading and spelling he has ended up in groups with nearly 7 year old girls. I told him they must think he is nearly as clever as a girl. He laughed and said "I'm as good as a girl any day". As good as, not better. PS. What do you do when your child comes home with a 8 line poem activity with a glaring grammatical/spelling error. He probably got it off a NZ education website but it was only 8 lines, surely he should have noticed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2bee Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 That was a cute quip. What was the grammatical error? If by NZ you mean New Zealand, is it possible just something that doesn't work in American English but makes perfect sense in another variety of English? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnIslandGirl Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 I love the "as good as"! As for the errors, we always say if the author had wanted it done differently, they would have done so. I admit though that I'm not a grammar police and tend to just roll with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwik Posted March 1, 2013 Author Share Posted March 1, 2013 I am s New Zealander so it wasn't that. Maybe grammatical wasn't the right word. It said 'to high' instead of 'too high'. It was probably simply a typo but like I said the poem was 8 lines long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2bee Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 I would point out the typo to my child and explain about some tricky homophones, to vs too. Also about how with typing you can make a mistake and keep it moving. It's not the end of the world and while the poem is only 8 lines long as you say, I am going to assume the your sons teacher is a real live person who is just as prone to making mistakes/being in a rush/having 100000 things going on, and sometimes dropping the ball on some point or other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwik Posted March 2, 2013 Author Share Posted March 2, 2013 Yeah that is pretty much what I did. We corrected it on the sheet, talked about to, too and two and moved on. The teacher had a rough start to the year and is probably still suffering so he is probably not operating at 100%. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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