SPELLING: Week of January 12th

This week's patterns:
-sion (1st sound: 'shun' like in 'session'  2nd sound: 'zhun' like in vision)
-ie- (1st sound: long 'i' at the end of short words. 2nd sound: 'ee' in the middle of words like 'chief')
-ue (1st sound: 'oo' like in 'blue'  2nd sound: long 'u' like in rescue)

Here is our list:

1. mansion
2. tension
3. mission
4. session
5. vision
6. illusion

7. pie
8. tie
9. lie
10. field
11. shriek
12. achieve

13. glue
14. due
15. argue
16. tissue
17. value
18. rescue

Watch Out Words
19. peak
20. peek

SPELLING: Week of January 1st

This week's patterns:
ur
tion
age

Here is our list:

1. burp
2. jury
3. purse
4. curve
5. turtle

6. action
7. station
8. location
9. donation
10. portion

11. cage
12. page
13. stage
14. average 
15. manage

Watch Out Words

16. write
17. right
18. through
19. though
20. thought

Fun Winter Party!

We had a great time at our winter party today! A big thank you to all the mom volunteers who helped make it such a success. The kids had a blast!

Have a fantastic winter break, everyone!

Class T-Shirt Gifts

Two of our lovely students have been working on a secret project for a couple of weeks. Ali and Alexis have created personalized t-shirts for our entire class!

You can see how excited we are to have these cool shirts! Alexis and Ali had wrapped each one and we all opened up the gifts at the same time--what fun! Each student's name is even on the back of their shirt.

Here are a couple of pictures of our entire class:

We can't wait for the winter party later today!

MATH: Decimal Booklets

Students have been using these place-value booklets to work on decimal skills. Hopefully you've seen this little tool come home.

There are lots of things you can do with it to practice. Here are a few suggestions:

• Counting: Start at a number like 0.1, and practice counting out loud by tenths, as the student flips the numbers in the book. Count by hundredths starting at 0.01, or by thousandths starting at 0.001.
• Counting through transitions: Pay special attention to transitions when counting with decimals, like what happens if you count from 0.7 to 1.4, or from 0.09 to 0.15.
• Dictating decimals: Say a decimal number and have your child make it on the booklet.
• Reading decimals: Make a decimal number and have your child read it aloud properly
• Putting digits in certain places: Ask your child to put a certain number in each place and then read the decimal aloud. Like, put a 0 in the ones place, a 5 in the hundredths place, and a 4 in the tenths place. "0.45"
• More or less: Have your child make a decimal on the booklet. Then give a second number and ask your child which number is greater.

SPELLING for Week of December 15th

This week's patterns:
ew (often at the end of words)
eigh (often followed by 't')
-ture (at the end of longer words)

Here is our list:

1. stew
2. threw
3. grew
4. newt
5. blew

6. sleigh
7. freight
8. eight
9. weight

10. picture
11. adventure
12. capture
13. culture
14. mixture

Watch Out Words
15. guessed
16. guest
17. root
18. route

SPELLING for Week of December 8th

This week's patterns:
au (at the beginning or middle of a word)
aw (at end of word OR followed by a single 'l' or 'n')
oe (at the end of very short words)

Here is our list:

1. fraud
2. launch
3. vault
4. taunt
5. haunt

6. straw
7. crawl
8. yawn
9. jaw
10. drawn

11. toe
12. Joe
13. doe

Watch Out Words
14. some
15. sum
16. weed
17. we'd

18. which
19. thought