March 3
letter, never, water, river, winter, summer, ever, zipper, antler, later, power, paper, meter, master, number, order, proper, finger, danger, hamburger
February 23
The spelling words this week are words that are important for your child to know for upcoming math and writing formatives. row, column, inch, inches, parallel, rhombus, square, rectangle, trapezoid, fraction, afterward, in conclusion, after, lastly, finally.
February 2
This week's words are hanger, thing, belong, fling young, strong, sang, clang, wrong, drink, junk, thank, skunk, stink, sand, spend, friend, grand, stand, second. These words focus on the nk, nd and ng sounds.
December 8
The spelling words this week are couch, meow, tower, growl, blouse, count, scout, round, fountain, outside, ouch, loud, crown, plow, powder, crowd, celebrate, winter, holiday and Christmas. Please make sure they remember when it is appropriate to capitalize words.
December 1
crayon, birthday, raisin, afraid, straight, daisy, eight, sleigh, weigh, break, great, steak, vein, veil, obey, prey, grape, chase, grade, waste
November 17
The spelling words this week are shiver, reach, beach, screech, punch, rich, coach, thumb, chain, shout, spinach, whale, whisper, mouth, thought
All words have sh, wh, th, or ch sound.
There will be no spelling words next week
November 3
spelling words this week are more words with blends and double consonants. stubborn, effort, clown, effort, friend, cliff, puppet, flower, butter, button, curet, address, build, screw, grew, think
October 27
The spelling words this week all have a double constant sound:
cross, dress, rabbit, sudden, funny, better, lesson, glitter, letter, yellow, hello, dollar, happen, pull, guess
October 20
Our words this week all have constant blends. They are: threw, first, class, cloud, floor, stairs, twist, grand, climb, sleeve, toast, clock, trade, help, stand
October 13
The words this week are: blame, chose, June, ripe, pride, price, slope, joke, dude, excuse, wrote, globe, slice, role, ache. These words are all cVe words again. They will all say the long vowel because the "e" is giving them power at the end of the word.
October 6
The spelling words this week are sight words that your child should know without having to sound them out. The words are about, would, because, them, again, could, which, before, some, after, one, two, three, four, and five. Thanks
September 30
This week, please review the words for the last three weeks. We will chose 15 randomly on Friday morning to test.
September 22
The spelling words this week are:
alone, mistake, trace, stripe, knife, guide, theme, froze, tube, doze, huge, glide, face, wide, nose
They are all long vowels that end with an "e". We will be teaching the class the "e" gives the other vowel the power to yell it's own name, hence making it a long vowel.
September 15
The spelling words this week focus on the short e,o,u pattern. The words are went, every, fence, best, seven, penny, puddle, number, ugly, check, strong, thunder, present, shrug and copy.
September 8
This week our spelling words focus on short a and short i words. Please practice this skill with your child: bag, win, is, am, his, has, ran if, dig, sat, was, big, cat, fin, this
September 1
These are the spelling words for the week of September 1. All of these words have a short vowel in them, this is a skill that we will be working on this week. Please make sure your child understands and can identify short vowels.
Pick, kick, sit, hit, puff, stuff, well, tell, had, sad, fan, can, hot, got, mop
Intriguing
The word of the week is intriguing, meaning interesting or fascinating.
Flabbergasted
This week's word is flabbergasted, meaning overly surprised, excited, shocked, etc.
January 26th
large, farther, garden, target, market, arch, scar, yard, carpet, hard, party, March, dark, smart, tarp, snarl, barge, department, apartment, barn
All the spelling words have -ar sound as in "car"
December 1
The word of the week is festive. we discussed how that means you're in a holiday spirit, jolly, merry, etc.
October 27
The word of the week is vibrant: exciting, intense, bright
October 13
The word of the week is dilemma. This means a problem. It can be a good problem or a bad problem.
September 30
This week the word of the week is disheveled. We have discussed the meaning of word is unorganized, messy and disarranged.
September 22
The word of the week this week is appalled. We discussed how this word means disgusted, full of shock or horror. For example, I was appalled when the student was talking when I was.
September 15
Our word of the week this week is frenzy. This means a wild outburst of emotion or feeling, a state of being filled with excitement.
September 8
Our word of the week this week is putrid. Putrid, adjective: rotten, evil, having a nasty odor, very low quality
Sept 2-5
Our word of the week for this week was lethargic. We discussed it being an adjective that means sluggish, inclined to sleep, lazy and dull
Try to use this word around your child this week!
MARCH 3
The skills this week are words ending with -er and verbs meaning now.
February 23
Our skills this week are just a review of the skills we have worked on this theme. Please review the power 3P's: Pronouns, possessive nouns, plural nouns.
February 2
The skills this week are: the nk, ng, and nd sound, irregular plurals with -es and -ies, and singular possessive nouns like the teacher's or the dog's.
January 26th
The skills this week are -ar, -ture, -tion and pronouns such as he, they, she...
December 8
The skills this week are the blends "ow and ou" and plurals
December 1
This week the only skill we're working on is long a in the form of "ai, ay, ea, ey, ei, a_e, eigh"
November 17
The skills this week are reviewing nouns, synonyms and working on the ch, sh, wh, th sounds
November 3
The skills this week are compound words (bedroom, lighthouse, etc.), antonyms (small, big and tall, short, etc.) and the sounds that "G" makes (g and j.)
October 27
The skills we will be working on this week are exclamations (!), double consonant sounds, and putting words in alphabetical order. Many students are still having problems with alphabetizing words that start with the same letter, for example, cat and can.
October 20
The skills this week that we are working on are: commands (sentences that require an exclamation point, constant clusters,different sounds the letter c makes.
September 30
Please review past skills for the test at the end of the week ;)
September 22
The skills this week are
cVe words, action parts of the sentence and exclamationscVe words- These are the words that are like their spelling words. We talked about the word "tap" and when the "e" joins the word the vowel becomes long and says it's own name "Tape"
actions parts- These are the parts of the sentences that are telling what is going on. In another words, these are the verbs. For example, Sally ate a pie.
exclamations- These are sentences that end with an exclamation point.
September 15
The skills we are working on this week are
short e,o,u, the naming part of the sentence and synonyms. Short e,o,u- At this point our students need to know and understand the sounds that short vowels make. Please practice words such as net, egg, and elephant and the sounds they make.
Naming Part of the Sentence- The naming part of the sentence is basically the same as the main noun. Who or what is doing the action. They need to be able to identify who this is or create a sentence using properly the naming part. They must also remember that each sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with some form of punctuation.
Synonyms- Synonyms are words that tell the same thing in a different way (happy and glad, couch and sofa, and laugh and giggle). They will need to be able to make matches of words and come with one set of their own. These will be displayed in the room as a "Sea of Synonyms" next to the "Harvest of Homophones" we created last week.