{"id":1114,"date":"2010-07-20T20:24:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T00:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2010-07-20T20:24:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T00:24:13","slug":"can-you-use-it-in-a-sentence-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/20\/can-you-use-it-in-a-sentence-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Use It in a Sentence, Please?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having always been a champion speller*, I find kids who can&#8217;t spell <em>fascinating<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Today we were discussing class jobs. I wrote them all on the board, and we talked about what each one entailed. Then I gave the kids index cards and told them to write down their top three job choices.<\/p>\n<p>This is what I got (and remember, all the jobs were written on the board):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sweper<\/li>\n<li>bord worsher, bored washer (Ha&#8212;what would that person do?)<\/li>\n<li>pencil sharpiner, pensel sharpiner, pencil sarper, pencel shapener, peneil shanpener (That last one sounds like a burning sensation you should see your doctor about.)<\/li>\n<li>libraren, liydeary (Oh dear, someone has dyslexia.)<\/li>\n<li>resekliler (Can you guess what this one is?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*Cove Creek School champion, 7th grade&#8212;beat out my eighth-grade <em>brother<\/em> and <em>cried<\/em> because I didn&#8217;t want him to lose. Went to the district spelling bee, and got out on the word &#8216;abstain&#8217;. I didn&#8217;t know what &#8216;abstain&#8217; meant (go ahead&#8212;make your funny jokes), and the way the lady pronounced it, it sounded like &#8216;obtain&#8217; to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having always been a champion speller*, I find kids who can&#8217;t spell fascinating. Today we were discussing class jobs. I wrote them all on the board, and we talked about what each one entailed. Then I gave the kids index cards and told them to write down their top three job choices. This is what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/20\/can-you-use-it-in-a-sentence-please\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can You Use It in a Sentence, Please?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fambly","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}