Word Scramble

Do you have the All About Spelling tiles?

My 5th grader came up with a game this afternoon.

HE came up with it, not me!

[miracle]

He named it Word Scramble.

He placed a bunch of AAS letters up on the magnet board,

turned around and said,

"Try to unscramble that word mom!"

Little did he know I'm a whiz at Word Scramble.

hehe

I solved his puzzle,

Then I made him solve mine.

We kept on taking turns.

It worked really well.

He'd give me some wrong letters occasionally.

[Ex: Instead of the 'm' in umbrella, he gave me an 'n',

Also he only gave me one 'l'.]

That gave me the chance to review with him 'pronouncing for spelling',

and 'protecting the short vowel'.

It was a great learning opportunity.

After going over some spelling rules,

he corrected the problem,

And we kept on happily playing.

And that's just the thing...we were happily playing,

He was having fun with spelling!

(He is my moaner when it comes to spelling.)

Below are some pictures of him solving my puzzle.

And then doing what it said. :)

He was smart . . . He divided the vowels from the consonants.

Trying to figure out why there are 2 g's.

"Did I get it?"

Getting out his wiggles.

 Hmmm... This is inspiring me to think of more games. =)