Easley visit #1

I spent the majority of my time with two second grade girls who were basically copying words off of a page to learn spelling I assume.  They only have to write the word one time and I was pretty surprised when they told me they didn't know the meanings of them.  When I asked if they did, they said, "the teacher will tell us tomorrow."  To be honest, I don't believe that the teacher will.  I don't understand how to learn that way.  in order to remember how to spell a word, I would have to be able to read it and associate it with a definition and then I would associate that with the spelling I learned.  So, I taught them the definitions and gave them clues on how to remember them.  They could already read the words but just lacked their denotations.  They wanted to just play after, but we really spent a decent 30 minutes discussing the words.  I'm sure that wasn't their favorite thing to do, but I kind of made them do it anyways.  I would have felt awful if I didn't encourage that learning.