Canadian Spelling Wisdom

The only idea I can come up with is when you print out the SW page for copywork/dictation, white out the “misspelled” word and correct it your way. So when they copy it, they will see the Canadian version. Eventually, after years of doing this, I think they will have the Canadian spelling in their head while reading and copying American or English books and , poer your permission, copy it the canadian way even though it has an American or English spelling.

I do similar things with Hebrew replacements to the many “Christianized” words in speech and in the Scripture and in Bible studies; for example, automatically converting Jesus into Yeshua on the written page and in their minds when reading. As the years have gone by, combined with our own Messianic Jewish materials, the verbal reinforcement and daily speech, and writing practice in Hebrew, they replace the words themselves and they are 9 and 10.

Does that make sense? You may not even have to do it with every lesson, just check before each lesson.

HTH, Rachel

Thanks!

It sounds as though you are much more planned for the long term than I am! Haha!

I am hoping to be able to keep our Canadian studies in the general timeline of our world history studies. So right now we are taking our time studying the native peoples, how they came to be here and what they lived like before the Europeans started coming over. I have been hard pressed (at least in our library) to find living books about how they lived and who they were. Almost all the books that are laid out in story format seem to be just focused on the myths and beliefs that they had. That is alright in a small dosage but it doesn’t really tell us, in story form, how they lived, ate, day to day life, etc. Most books that explain that part of it are pretty textbookish! I will just try to keep scouring our library shelves whenever we go in, I guess!

Anyway, thanks for the link and as far as Canadian spelling goes, I think that Rachel may have the only idea that would really work in a realistic way.

God Bless! Happy Canadian Studying!

-Miranda

I am a Canadian mom living in the U.S.  When I was growing up in Canada I had an American elementary teacher, first grade actually, which made things interesting.  I remember being told that the way we spelled ‘neighbour’ was different than those in the States.  At the time I really didn’t care but I knew.  Now I teach my own children and they spell the American way and I the Canadian way. Oh, another twist is that we use the KJV for memory work and copywork which, of course, uses King’s English.  I think if you tell them that there are differences and point them out, children put that snippet away in their brain for another time.  I think children are very adaptable.  Now I could be wrong on this but as of now that is my experience.