15/16

Olin got in to the car at school pick up today, head low (I knew something was wrong). The second he got in he immediately came up front and sat on my lap and started crying. I asked him what happened, and after a little more crying he goes, "I got 15 out of 16!" and then started crying hard again. So of course I knew it was spelling because they are all about getting "16 out of 16". Turns out he missed the word "nutrients" on his spelling test that he had been practicing pretty hard for. He kept spelling it nutrience during the week but by last night he thought he had it. Then he said "also, I did my test in cursive, and my cursive looks so bad!" (crying) and then "I am really upset about 15/16 because I got 16/16 on my other tests. Now I wish I didn't get 16 out of 16 on all my old tests because I feel so bad now!"

Funny 7 year old logic.

As an aside, the words he had problems during practice this week were:

• vitamins (vidaminds and vidamints)
• noise (noice)
• nutrients (nutrience and nootrience)