AIbu to expect my ds1's teacher to set spellings that are spelt correctly?

[caz1010]

My Ds1 receives a weekly spelling test. This weeks words include tinopener - is it not tin/can opener ie two words also mindmap WTF is a mindmap and again a word or two? I give you also fishfinger trafficwarden and milkmen. Need your opinion before i start my snotty letter to school !

As a teacher I frequently see colleagues (who are generally younger than myself) spell things wrong.

Even on displays.

To be a good speller you need to have quite a good visual memory. You can bang on about phonics all you like but English is a bugger for exceptions. Sometimes you just have to learn them.

Teaching is knackering though. Properly knackering. Mistakes get made.

Just spoken to teacher! Apparently they are learning three syllable words and these were the only appropriate ones sh could find on the list of suggested words provided from the learning programme they follow. I am the only parent who has found cause to bring this up. Now feel really bad. Im not great at getting my point across and she made me feel I was finding fault to be pedantic when in fact she is correct. This still doesnt feel right !

But she still wasn't correct, was she? They are not 3 syllable words if they are 2 separate words! And mindmap is not 3 syllables even if it's one word! Nor is milkman!

Tbh, her explanation makes me even more than I was on page 1!

And traffic warden is either 2 or 4 depending on whether we accept it's 2 words (which IMO it is) or 1 (which it soooo isn't!)

If the test is supposedly (so tempted to type supposably) for three-syllable words, then that just makes the teacher even more questionable;
tinopener - four syllables
mindmap - two syllables
fishfinger - HURRAHHHH!! The woman can count!
trafficwarden - four syllables
milkmen - two syllables

Get thy snotty letter to the school pronto!

That 3 syllable excuse is utter crap ! .... as demonstrated by ThreeBubbas. If 3 syllables is the point of the test - and not compound words - then the words don't fit, and if it's compound words, then there are question marks over many of them.

Am a layman but would argue that "themes" for spelling tests would be better based on sounds, e.g. the different ways "ee" can be spelt - tree, flea, happy, ceiling and so on, or, at least on words related to one another to catch the children's interest, such as animals, transport etc. I'd have complained too in your shoes as I wouldn't be happy having my child taught something which is wrong however many bloody syllables it's got !

mindmap is one word, as is PowerPoint (and including the capital P's) I am an IT teacher and we use mindmaps A LOT in school.

Yes, Maddy, we've already established that, unfortunately Powerpoint, whilst having 3 syllables as per the test,wasn't included in the test, whereas mindmap (which has 2 syllables) was in the test.

Ohhhh, wonder why all that got formatted in italics.
Didn't mean it to!

Mindmap is not a word, it is jargon that a 7 year old doesn't need to know.

Milkman is one word.

Tin opener, fish finger, traffic warden are all two words.

What should they call it when they do a mindmap then?

You might want to check first whether the teachers space keys is defunct

Does anyone have any ideas where i could get my hands on a the learning plan the teacher mentioned? We are in east yorkshire if that helps with anything? Would like to write snotty letter today and either back up my ishoos OR show she fobbed me off

Sorry to be so ooooh about this but Im really feeling fobbed off and feel she is trying to make me feel Im just a silly interfering mum.

A mindmap is the new word for "brainstorm". Still, I'd never have though this kind of business-slang was appropriate for a child's spelling test.

Interestingly, my spellcheck just recognised "brainstorm" but not "mindmap". It's also just told me that "spellcheck" isn't a word, and I've spelled "recognized" without a Z. goes to download the British version