Reading and Spelling -Week of January 23-27

This week we are reading the stories “I’m a Caterpillar” and “My Computer.” Please practice our word wall words and spelling words at home with your child this week.

Word Wall Words: done, know, push, visit, wait

Spelling Words: her, first, bird, girl, burn, were, shirt, fur, hurt, sir, visit, done

Challenge Word: caterpillar

Our skills this week are -er, -ir, -ur sound, contractions, and using am, is, was, and were correctly.

There are two animal games that deal with life cycles on my blogroll that your child may enjoy playing for practice at home, as well as the contraction games that I have referred to earlier this year.

Reading / Spelling / 100th Day Celebration – Week of January 17-20

Our spelling words this week are related to math and our “100th Day Celebration” which will be on Friday.  The words are: ten, twenty, thirty, fourty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, and one-hundred.  There will not be a challenge word as these words are challenging enough. 

Your child should have brought home a note today regarding our “100th Day Celebration”.  Each child is to bring in a collection of 100 things, something that will fit in his/her backpack.  Also, in addition, I have asked each family to send in an item for us to use that day as part of our celebration.  I must apologize for the short notice.  I intended to send it home on Thursday, but we were planting seeds up to the very end of the day, and I just forgot.  If it is a hardship for you to bring the item circled on your child’s list, just let me know and I will be happy to pick it up.  Those items may be brought in any day this week.

 Also, don’t forget this is is the week for our reading projects to be brought in.  What fun to see and hear about the children’s lives!  Since we are doing this, we will not be doing our normal reading curriculum until next week. Your child’s reading homework this week is to read his/her library books at home and be ready to test on them the next day.

 

Reading and Spelling – Weeks of Jan. 4 and January 9

We are reading the stories “Frog and Toad Together” and “Growing Plants.”  Please practice our word wall words and spelling words at home with your child this week. 

 

Word Wall Words:  afraid, again, few, how, read, soon

 

Spelling Words:  ask, asked, plan, planned, help, helped, jog, jogged, call, called, again, soon

 

Challenge Word: garden

 

Our skills are -ed, -ing endings, -ar, and past tense verbs.

Spelling and Reading – Week of Dec. 12-16

This week we are reading the stories “Jan’s New Home” and “A Letter from Jan.”  Please practice our word wall words and spelling words at home with your child this week.    

 

Word Wall Words:  away, car, friends, house, our, school, very

 

Spelling Words:  fix, fixes, class, classes, wish, wishes, kiss, kisses, bus, buses, friends, very

Challenge Word: location

Our skills this week are reading, writing and spelling words with-es, -or, and -ore endings, verbs that do not add -s, and identifying the “theme” of a story.

 

Spelling and Reading- Week of December 5 – 9

This week we are reading the stories “Ruby in Her Own Time” and “I’m Growing.”  Please practice our word wall words and spelling words at home with your child this week.   Also, in the boxes are four sentences for your child to read to you.

Word Wall Words:  any, enough, ever, every, own, sure, were

Spelling Words:  bring, trunk, pink, bank, sang, wing, rink, blank, rang, sunk, every, sure

 Challenge Word:  Christmas

Are there enough pancakes for Hank?

Make sure every cupcake is pink.

Did you ever skate at an outside rink?

They put a jack inside every car trunk. Our skills this week are words that end with -ng and -nk sounds, compound words, and verbs with -s.

Spelling and Reading – Week 0f Nov. 28- Dec. 2

This week we are reading the stories “An Egg is an Egg” and “Nothing Fits.”  Please practice our word wall words and spelling words at home with your child this week. 

 Word Wall Words:  always, become, day, everything, nothing, stays, things

 Spelling Words:  my, by, try, any, body, fly, cry, lucky, silly, puppy, things, always

Challenge Word: December

Our skills this week are long i and long e sound spelled with “y” , long vowels with cv pattern, and identifying and using action verbs.

Unit #2 Reading Project – Community Workers

Next week the students will be sharing their projects on what job they would like to do when they grow up. They need to be able to read their paragraph that answers the questions:
What job would you like to have when you grow up?
What kind of schooling will you need for this job?
Where would you do this job?
Who or what would you help when you do this job? How would you help them?
What is something about this job that you think is very interesting, exciting, or unusual?
Why do you think that you would be good at this job?
How does the hat or other clothing worn help with this job?
Monday’s presenters will be students whose last name falls between N-S. Tuesday’s presenters will be those between C-M.

Reading and Spelling – Week of Nov. 14-18

This week we are reading the stories “Honey Bees” and The Ants Go Marching.” Please practice our word wall words and spelling words at home with your child this week.

Word Wall Words: also, family, new, other, some, their

Spelling Words: be, feet, he, see, we, green, me, she, tree, week, some, family

Challenge Word: pollen

The skills that we are working on this week are long “e” sound , dividing vccv words into syllables, and compare and contrast.

New Website Links

I have added several links to my websites this week. There are several sites on which the children can practice contractions. Also there is a fun dinosaur website to go along with our story this week.

Reading and Spelling – Week of Nov. 7-11

This week we are reading the stories “The Big Circle” and “Class Paper.” Please practice our word wall words and spelling words at home with your child this week.

Word Wall Words: down, inside, now, there, together

Spelling Words: home, hope, rose, woke, those, bone, hose, joke, rode, stone, there, together

Challenge Word: dinosaur

Our skills this week are long “o” sound, contractions, sequencing, and capitalizing days, months, and holidays.