Donna ) wrote:

In general (including the stuff I snipped), I think meeting with the teacher
is in order, especially to find out what this all means-if it is FYI, that's
fine-if it will affect which grade or class he is in next year, that's
another thing entirely.

I agree entirely. If they're teaching spelling with tests *at all* in first
grade (which I don't even believe in, I don't think they do a lick of good),
they ought to be doing it with words that reinforce their knowledge of phonetic
rules. A random list of animals is no use at all.

Incidentally, the California first-grade standard regarding spelling is "Spell
three- and four-letter short-vowel words and grade-level-appropriate sight
words correctly."

--Helen