The other day Amy and I were were working on Amy's word club where the teacher gives her 5 words to learn to spell... Or "master." I would say "Amy, please spell the word 'because'" then Amy would write the word on a piece of paper. I wasn't paying very close attention while Amy very quietly spelled all words perfectly.
In addition to being quiet (which is abnormal for her) she had a guilty look on her face. I asked her to hand the scrap paper that was near her. She said, "no, you don't need this. I'll just crumple it up." with hand motions and head bobs trying to be as casual as possible. I asked for the paper again. This time she said, "how about I'll just throw this in the trash?" She was working hard to not have me see that paper. next, she said I could have the paper but I could only look at one side.
It turns out she has written the words on that paper and used them to cheat. I very calmly confronted her and she finally she admitted to it and said "I was cheating".
We had good talk about the importance of doing work honestly...but it was hilarious the way she knew she was busted and tried so hard to cover it up. 5-6 must be the age that kids realize they have the ability to cheat and they know that cheating is wrong, but they need to test the waters.
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The funny thing about this is that Amy can absolutely do these lists on her own; I have no idea why she wanted to cheat. Once she reviewed the words for a few more minutes and re-did the test, she got them all right. All on her own.
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