My daughter came home today with a Progress Report from her school. Overall she did ok but she had 2 D-'s & 1 F that she received on some individual assignments!!! I was NOT happy about that. So I ended up grounding her. I remember back in the day when I would get grounded for bad grades (among other things). My mom used to make me write the definitions of 100 dictionary words each night for a week. This was supposed to make me learn my lesson. Unfortunately it didn't make me learn my lesson but the one plus side was I became great at spelling big words. Well, I decided to revamp my mom's idea and put a little twist on it for my daughter. I created a worksheet (in Excel). On this worksheet it has room for her to write 5 dictionary words, 5 times each, write sentences (her own-not from the dictionary) for each word and then also write the dictionary definition for each word. This is something she needs to do each night...5 words per night. I know this sounds cruel but I now thank my mom for doing it to me.
Not only did I create this worksheet for my daughter but I also created a book to house them. Below is the book. In the pictures she looks pretty excited because I let her pick the outside design but don't let that fool you, as soon as I explained what the book was for, she was NOT as happy. So here is the book. Maybe you can find a use for a book like this. If you are interested in a copy of the worksheet, let me know and I can email it on over to you. Thanks!
