Often I do a bigger chunk of blogging on Saturday mornings, because that’s the time of the week I can slip out before anyone else is awake, take myself out to breakfast, and then hit the coffee shop for a few hours while Mark and the kids sleep in and then go to the grocery store.
Today I only have about two hours. I’m checking in from the coffee shop, but… what I really want to do is just some mindless busy work. So I’m going to generate lists of spelling words. I find this kind of activity relaxing and absorbing and peaceful. I would say it’s like knitting, except that I don’t knit, so instead I will say it’s like writing code. Pick the metaphor simile that appeals most.
Anchor, anger, angle, angry, ankle, anxious, bangle, bank, banquet, bingo….
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* (Because someone will ask: I’m drawing them from comprehensive word lists, organized by phoneme, given to me by a curriculum-developer friend. Each list has hundreds of words, and I’m scanning each list for a few dozen words that are appropriate for my second-grader. I instruct the second-grader to read the whole list and choose twenty words or so. He’s tested on those twenty.)
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