(I may be proving to you all what you have suspected for some time about me - that I am not the brightest crayon in the box - by posting this, but I am taking a chance...)
Lauryn is in 2nd grade and comes home with the most bizarre spelling words. Usually out of the 25 words on the list, she has heard maybe 4 or 5 of the words before, and actually knows what maybe 2 or 3 of them mean. I have usually heard of 20 of the words (the other 5 I swear are made up - they just take the root word and add a different ending on them - like obsolete and obsolescent), and I have actually
used 3 to 5 of the words before. (Probably only once though - on a day when I was feeling extra intellectual - those days are quite rare). And, every week, there is at least one word that I have no idea what it means, how to spell it or how to even pronounce it! I call them the "mystery words".
This weeks mystery spelling words are: perspicacity and perspicacious.
So, apparently I am not smarter than a 2nd grader.
I knew the day would come when I realized that my kids were smarter than me - I just didn't expect it to happen at age 7! Am I the only one that thinks these words are a little weird for a 2nd grader? And, tell me the truth, do you know what they mean? (without googling them like I did?)
You do? Sorry. I warned you, I am not very perspicacious.
