Welcome back! I hope you all had a wonderful off track time. I now hope you are ready to learn, work, learn and have fun. This week's keyword is "Winter is Winding Down". Anyway I am hoping it is.
Spelling
Unit 16 Review of Short and Long Vowel Patterns
Short Vowels
a as in apple or bat
e as in elephant or met
i as in igloo or in
o as in octopus or on
u as in umbrella or under
CVC Consonant Vowel Consonant
CCVC, CCVCC, CVCC
Long Vowels
Vowels say their names – a, e, i, o, u
CVCe Consonant Vowel Consonant silent e
Vowel Teams – “When two vowels go walking the first one does the talking.” ai, ay, ee, ea, oa, ow, oe, ue,
Special rules – igh, ight, /u/ spelled ew
Other Vowel Sounds
ow, ou
Students will do several activities during the week where they will be given a list of words or words they find in a story. They will need to tell if the vowel sound is long or short and which of the above rules apply to the word. We will begin this study together as a class and then work for each student to become independent in this activity.
For example:
throat - long o - vowel team rule
chop - short o - CCVC
light - ling I - special rule “ight”
On Friday they will be given a list of words to do this with as a test. They will also be asked to spell 10 words that use a variety of these rules. You can practice with them at home on any words that follow these rules. They will not be given a specific list of words to learn. (memorize)
They will also be tested on these words: February, president, Valentines
One last note on the spelling - when they have a multi-syllable word such as "winter" - if they will break it into syllables the syllables follow the spelling rules or principles stated above. Example: winter has two syllables win-ter. The first syllable is a CVC pattern so the vowel is short. The second syllable has an r-controlled vowel "er". That is a principle we will be getting to soon.
Vocabulary
We will be reading a story called "Eat Your Vegetables". From it we will draw the vocabulary words:
ferocious
steadfast
lumbered
queasy
collaboration
relocate
This week we will also be learning about Presidents of the United States - particularly George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
Africa
Look for the packet of information about the Africa report and project. Be sure to send back the paper with your child's choices of topic on it ASAP, but at least by Friday. I will assign the topics from their choices so that we don't have 5 reports on elephants, etc. Each week a homework page will come home telling what needs to be done on the report that week. This will help your child pace their efforts so that they will finish the report and project on time.
The due date for projects and reports is Monday March 29th. If students are finished I would love to have some turned in on Wednesday - Friday March 24th - March 26th so that we will not need to rush to hear all of the reports.
Math
In math we will be studying data collection and graphing. We begin by studying attributes and how we can sort things by their attributes. Example: Which children have blonde hair, brown hair or black hair, etc. or how many sides a shape has. They will be writing their own survey question with choices and surveying other students. Then they will us tally marks, a pictograph and a bar graph to represent the data.
We may even sort spelling words by spelling principles and graph them which will help them with spelling and be practice for the math concepts we are learning.
Home Reading Minutes and RRJ
Because the children will be reading to learn about the subject of their report, that reading will count as their reading minutes. Please continue to record minutes read on the yellow tracking sheets. However, because the children will be using what they read to write a report I will not be requiring the Reading Response Journal for the next few weeks.
Please continue with other homework such as: any math homework pages that come home - please complete and return the next day, practicing spelling and math facts, and playing the math games which will be distributed on Friday.
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