Unit 3 Week 1 Preview

In our next unit we will be exploring fun and laughter. Over the course of this unit, students will be collecting funny stories, riddles, and anecdotes to make into a book. Please assist children over the winter break to write notes about family members' favorite funny stories, riddles, and jokes.

We will begin our study of long-vowel spellings beginning with the spelling pattern long-vowel 'a' spelled 'a_e' (eg., rate, cage). We will learn the first stanza of our vowel poem which students may later memorize for a star on the Star Chart. Our vocabulary words of the week are: amuse, humorous, delighted, mood, and ridiculous. We will review sight words: all, put, show, together, under, and want in addition to introducing away, school, today, way, and why. In grammar we will be taking another look at verbs. We will discuss again, respect and good sportsmanship. As we did last week, we will use a Flow Chart to independently retell a story.

Final Reminder

Reading logs were due today. Students not having a total of 3 reading logs turned in by tomorrow will have '2' on their progress report in the area of homework.

Additionally, we had our first trip to the school library today. You will find either a library book in your child's backpack or a pink permission slip which needs to filled out completely in order for books to be checked out from school.

Also, if your child brings in one library book from an outside library (ie. Carson Public Library) they will receive a star on the star chart.