The 4th grade spelling bee started up last week. Apparently, the teachers sent home a list of words over the holidays. DP failed to let us know this so we misplaced them. The night before school started back last week, DP says he didn't want to do the spelling bee but had to. Therefore, I told him "since you have to do it, you might as well do your best". Now if you know any gifted kids, you know that isn't as trivial of a statement as it sounds. Now DP is upset that we don't have the words that were sent home. So SuperMom looks up some Scripps words and calls them out for him. I hear her and am thinking, "those are some hard words for a fourth grader". Then SuperMom realizes she was calling out the list for 2nd graders. Did I feel dumb? Oh well, she calls out about 10 of the 4th grade words and tells DP he is good. The next day is the test and when DP gets home we ask him how did he do. To SuperMom's surprise but not mine, he says "I won". That isn't the best part though. He then begins to tell us about how him and the runner-up were giving words to study for this week. Why the runner-up we ask? That is in case I don't want to do it. To this, SuperMom asks "do you want to do it", knowing he didn't want to do the first one. His reply, "yeah, I want to win now." That too isn't the best part of the conversation. The best part is when he was explaining how the spelling bee went. He said that they were giving name tags before it started. DP wrote his name, but one girl wrote her name with a nickname following it. Like Betty the Great. DP says, this girl Mary wrote Mary the Awesome on her name tag. He then states, "I knew I didn't have to worry about her because she spelled awesome wrong and wrote Mary the awsome". SuperMom asked if he told her, and he states "nah she already started her spelling bee off bad". He was right, he didn't have to worry about Mary.
2 Comments
|
Archives
April 2018
CategoriesAuthorPracticing medical physicist trying to raise three kids in the south. |