Monday, January 5, 2009

Spelling week of 1/6-1/9 Test 1/9 WELCOME BACK!

 I hope you had a wonderful and relaxing vacation.  It was a great time to spend with family and friends, but it is back to the daily grind.  We are continuing with our unit 3 in reading and a review of short e.  This week we will work with r and l blends.  The sight words for this month were in the December newsletter, please continue to work with them at home.  

Sight words for this week:   for some good too want

Spelling and Dictation sentences:
1.  Bring the sled to the deck for Ben.

2.  Ted can trap some green frogs for me.

Challenge words:  blending  sledding  tricks  drips

Next math test will be on Thursday Jan. 15.  It will cover subtraction, related addition and subtraction facts, and fact families.  I will start reviewing this week.  A practice test will go home on Wed. January 14th.
 
Social Studies:  We will begin a new unit.  Students will learn 7 continents and 4 oceans as well as different land forms.  Vocabulary for this week: weather season land ocean continent