DS1 is in Year 2 and has weekly spelling tests.
Last week, it was all about words ending in -ful e.g. beautiful, cheerful. So I looked in his spellings book and there was a sentence: "Don't speak with your mouth full, it's not very graceful". Now this is how DS wrote it; but 'mouth full' had been marked as a mistake. Now I get that his word to learn was 'mouthful', but surely in this context, the way he wrote it is correct?
Then I looked at his new words to learn for next week, and they are all numbers written in full. However, they are written in his spellings book like this: 'Ninety four', 'forty five', and so on. Unless there is a new rule that has passed me by, shouldn't all numbers between 21-99 be hyphenated when written out?
I'd loathe to teach him to write it the wrong way, but also don't want him to come home with a test full of 'mistakes' because of this.
So, how do I approach the teacher about this without appearing rude? I'm also not sure if I can do this at the door at pick-up time with all the other parents around? Has anyone been in a similar situation? Any advice appreciated!
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incorrect spellings - how do I approach this?
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SansaClegane · 06/12/2015 13:35
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