Not a Website - A Spelling 'Fridgesite'

 

            Today's snack: What's the most delicious thing you keep in your refrigerator? A lot of people would say fresh fruit. So today, choose one of these fruits, and while you're munching it, practice spelling these favorite sweet treats. What other fruits can you list?

 

Apple

 

Banana

 

Grapefruit

 

Orange

 

Pear

 

Pineapple

 

Plum

 

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Supplies:

 

A small dry-erase board with attached marker pen

and mounting tape on the back

 

 

You know that a "website" is a place on the Internet where information in a particular category or topic is grouped together. You can go to that website and look at it, any time you want.

 

Well, in our homes, the refrigerator is kind of like a website. It's something that we all look at, every day. So it's a perfect place to display words that you are trying to learn to spell.

 

Let's make a "fridgesite" where your whole family can learn to be better spellers by "posting" new word every day for everyone to practice spelling. You'd be surprised how much practice adults need, too, in

 

Put a small dry-erase board on your refrigerator so that it's not too high for the kids to write on, but not too low for the adults to use. Make sure there's an attached marker pen to go with it.

 

If there isn't one, you can tie a string or piece of yarn around a dry-erase marker or washable marker and tape or staple it securely to the back of the dry-erase board.

 

Every day, write a new spelling word on the board. Use your best printing so that it's clear and plain what the letters are.

 

Everyone in the family should look at the word, say it out loud, then close their eyes or look away, and spell it.

 

For fun, you can make it your job to write down each day's spelling word in a little notebook. Then, at the end of every month, give your family a spelling test over the 30 or so words that were posted that month.

 

Think up a prize for the winner every month - like that person gets out of dishwashing for the month, or gets to hold the remote control.

 

But you'll ALL win with your spelling fridgesite, and the hundreds of words you'll learn to spell - because your writing will be better and more impressive, with more correctly-spelled words - and winners are good spellers!