This was my attempt at baking son’s birthday cake. It’s amazing what heaps of icing can hide. The cake was a bit over baked with a huge volcano like hole at its centre. I plugged the hole with soft sweets and then covered with thick icing. What was left of the sweet packet was scattered on top. I might be onto something here. The soft sweet centre worked brilliantly. As a result the cake was deemed “not too bad at all” which on our sons review scheme equates to just above two Michelin stars. So now that’s got me thinking what other things can I fill the inevitable cake sunken holes with. I’m going for jelly in the next one. I will report back on my test.
On the subject of tests …. ok troops, time to stand by up your beds. Its spelling test time.
School is slipping as we have had only one spelling test this week. So they better make it a doozy.
Imagery
Alliteration
Rhyming
Couplets
Syllables
Stanza
Rhythm
Sonnet
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Assonance
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Enjambement
Another cracking list of words that will be of great use in son’s future life. My last conversation with school stressed the point
That spelling tests for dyslexic students are not recommended practice. If they have to be used then they should only focus on the most commonly used words.
Good to see the school are sticking to the common words then. I had to look up Enjambement. I was sadly disappointed to find that it wasn’t a Caribbean Cooking term for combining Jackfruit with Jamba Juice. My favourite flying dinosaur (Onomatopoeia) makes a welcome return. Last time I pulled that joke I had a shedload of abuse from my Texan fan club….. For some reason Son can’t say ASSonance without cracking up. Must get to the bottom of that joke.
He’s right you know, that cake doesn’t look too bad at all unlike the spellings which look like a nightmare for any dyslexic! I hope he enjoyed his birthday.
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He did apart from the school bit. He’s still giving it a go but he’s not enjoying it at all. But it’s his call.
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Great cake – great job!
Left to my own devices, I’ll misspell -r-h-y-t-h-m every single time! 😀
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Yes I struggle with that word as well.
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I definitely wouldn’t been able to spell the last two and I would have been like huh what the hell is it.
The cake looks lovely. I would have had a bite.
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I was surprised how good it was.
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Do the jelly idea one you have one day. It sounds fun. 🙂
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Maybe Sunday.
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Anything made with loads of love always tastes better – congratulations
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That is so so true. Thank you.
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Great cake repair idea. I had to look up enjambement, too. Wikipedia spells it without the second e.
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Apparently both are correct. The one with the e is often favoured as it looks more French.
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Nice job on the cake. As to that spelling list – unless its for poetics totally pointless in daily language. Hell, I am a poet and don’t use them that often and would have trouble spelling some of them off bat.
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Of all the words they could learn, why these ones ?
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Seriously, mate, L look at that list and thought ‘what the hell? why?’ They are all poetic terms so as much use as a dead fish for every day life. My lads are grown and I remember thinking much the same at their spelling lists. My eldest has Aspergers’ and just couldn’t cope with it, I had hoped things had changed – it seems not.
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No just getting worse. This week they are going over and over those spellings as some of the kids can’t get their heads round them. Surely we are better than this.
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Happy birthday son! It’s my birthday today 🙂
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Happy birthday. Hope it’s a good one.
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Thanks 🙂
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You done good on the cake!!
Yes, get to the bottom of the assonance snickering… something about that stinks😉😂 And our old friend the Onomatopoeiasaurus Rex makes another appearance? Brilliant🙄🦕🦖💌
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It’s a fearsome beast. Hope your good today. x
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The cake looks superb, and I can well imagine that a sweet (literally) centre would go down a treat.
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It’s knackered my diet up.
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I’m not surprised 😉
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Great cake, Icing is great sparkle…lol I’m sure he will love it.
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He’s enjoying it. x
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That word would make me smile too – especially listening to your son have fun with it 🙂 Cake looks great!
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It’s was a good cake for him. Needed Arun to burn it off.
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Your cake came out very good. And it has a candy center! What an extra surprise! Happy Birthday to your son….and I hope you both enjoy every bit of his day.
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Thank you. Yes he had a good one,
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You’re welcome!
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That cake looks delicious! And I can’t spell and I have an English degree. In the end there is spell check. Your son is a trooper.
Happy Birthday!
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Frustratingly school often turns off the spell checkers.
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Heeeeeeey, great job!
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Thank you
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Lovely cake!! Happy bday!!
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Thank you
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Good grief. I’m pretty literate and didn’t even recognize two of those words. (Assonance and Enjambment). I can’t imagine why anyone would need to know them. Isn’t that what online spelling programs are for?
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That’s what I thought.
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Beautiful cake! Another entertaining post, thank you!
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That’s very kind of you. x
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So …. what does ‘Enjambement’ mean???
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It lost me when it mentioned poetry and endings.
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😂
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So what on earth does Enjambement mean then?
The cake looks amazing, you did good! I’m a sucker for icing..save me a slice?
Caz xx
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Incomplete syntax at the end of a line in poetry. I think.
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That cake looks great and so delicious. Yummy! Okay that is a spelling list.
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It was a nice cake.
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It looks it. And tasty too I’m sure.
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You did a great job of improvising with the cake, and it looks beautiful! Chocolate pudding in the middle of one might not be too bad 😉 Heck, there are three words on that list that I don’t even know! Are those people nuts??? Have a good, peaceful weekend, my friend!
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Thank you. Unbelievably he doesn’t like chocolate cake….
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Say WHAT??? I’ve only known one other kid in my life who didn’t like chocolate, a friend of Miss Goose’s.
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Didn’t get that from his parents….
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I never heard of enjambment either. Fortunately, after I typed the first 4 letters into my search engine it popped right up. So I won’t have to learn how to spell it! We all know, however, that onomatopoeia is one of the most frequently used words in the English language, right? The cake looks great. Glad your son appreciated the sweets of your labors.
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He did. Yes both words are not exactly common are they.
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The cake looks great Gary.
Spelling tests, yuk. Apparently at school my spelling wasn’t good and I have it on my report (aged 8) that I had made a serious effort to improve it!
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Must dig out my school report.
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You can see mine here (and a pic of me at 3 and 8)
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2019/02/10/many-years-ago/
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That’s a good report. Going to find mine and post it warts and all.
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As you can see, arts and crafts were not my thing!
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Better than mine….
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I loved Junior school. I had lovely teachers and we had lessons outside sometimes on sunny days.
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Our junior school was in the footprint of a giant chemical works. If the wind was in the wrong direction you got covered in god knows what when you were outside.
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holy cow!
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It’s probably why I glow in the dark….
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I expected to after my radiotherapy in 2016/17 and Hubby was looking forward to plugging me to save on the electricity bill.
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Saves on batteries.
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ha. Yeah.
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Great effort on the cake. As long as your Son loves it and loves the fact you made it thats all that matters.
From someone who has been where you are, everyone has to be better than the last so keep practiscing.
Good luck and great job.
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Thank you
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Onomotawhosits should be a freebie! You should be able to spell it however sounds good to you that day 🙃…but nobody asked me. Very impressive birthday cake! 😊 thank you for sharing with us. Now I’m thinking all the extra sweets that I could put in! 😊
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Think of all the calories we can now add to cakes now.
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The possibilities are endless 😊
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They are.
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And a super duper Happy Birthday to your Son! 🎊🎂🎶
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Thank you
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Why did No one tell me the meaning of enjambement? My spell checker likes the extra ‘e’ after the ‘b’.
You would think that a list from Wednesday Wacky Word Club. Let’s add another wacky word to the list.
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It’s not in my spellchecker…..
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Are these spelling words part of the prescribed curriculum or is the choice of words the teacher’s discretion?
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It’s mainly government policy. Back to basics teaching. They have even started testing 4 year olds.
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The last school where I was the principal (headmaster) we introduced a levelled reading program where we did a reading checkup on each student 3 times a year to keep them at a reading level that would challenge them but not overly. We did 5 yr old and up but only in reading. Nothing elaborate or onerous.
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This school doesn’t do any. Just relies on the spelling test scores.
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Hmmmm, so spelling scores as the ultimate litmus test….
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Apparently so.
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I didn’t know the one about jam either. …and why is that dinosaur so difficult to spell when it’s a wonderful idea for a word?
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I struggle with there and their, so what chance have I got.
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Everyone does.
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So, you have a March child. I am a Lunar Piscean so, I can relate.
Love the cake.
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It was an unusually good cake for me.
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Are you a cook who concentrates or someone who dances to the music while baking ? x
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Just popped over from Chels…great cake!… I am quite good at spelling but a couple of those made me think…a child’s spelling test an excellent way to put them off reading or writing for life…methinks…Popping Candy is good on a cake…
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