April 12-16, 2010

Happy Spring! I hope everyone enjoyed another wonderful weekend! Take a look at what we are doing this week!

SPELLING
The spelling words are listed below. Don’t forget to study spelling words on Thursday night for the test on Friday.

April 12 ~ Focusing on words with the vowel digraph ow
cow now down town brown show row low flower tower grow know

April 19 Focusing on words with the ar
car far jar stat start farm harm are garden large smart chart

April 26 ~ Focusing on words with double consonants.
funny bunny puppy penny happy kitten mitten little ripple cuddle sitting juggle

May 3 ~ Focusing on words with vowel digraph aw and the initial consonants digraph th.
saw paw law lawn fawn then this crawl these their think drawn

May 10 ~ Focusing on words in the -ook, -ood and -and word families.
book good look wood took stood stand hand land hood shook nook


READING
Our whole group sound for this week is /j/ as in jaguar. Our writing job will be various topics related to this sound.

Please take advantage of using the Renaissance at home program. If you are having problems please let me know.

MATH
We will begin Chapter 21 on Monday. Homework this week will be the pages in the practice workbook from Chapter 21. Also, continue to practice addition and subtraction each night.

LANGUAGE - (DOL)
We have covered rules 1-24 and continuing to practice these rules in sentences each week. We will continue to discuss commas in a series and commas are used in dates and addresses (city, state). Next week we will discuss synomyms We will take our Friday's DOL for a daily grade.

Have a wonderful week!!