Today I learned that 1st grade readers will apply the rules to unknown words when you don't want them to. Big Al, a large and ugly fish with no friends, decided to wrap himself in seaweed as a disguise and thereby get other fish to talk to him. But alas, in this reading, it seems that poor Al was raped in the seaweed. Silent 'w', then followed by a misuse of the consonant-vowel-consonant-e (cvce) rule that makes the vowel long (they haven't heard of the doubling the final consonant yet, so it was just ignored) and you - or Big Al - gets raped instead of wrapped.
So, I get home from all that and find my energy lacking. Creativity, for me, takes time and definitely take energy. I'm looking forward to summer and that time I need.
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