We enjoyed our day filled with hard work. Even some of that work was challenging for the students. Today they worked on homographs. Homographs are words that are spelled the same and sound the same, but have different meanings. Take a look at just a few.
Spelling this week was challenging. I know at this young age, sometimes hearing those three letter digraphs can be hard. I want you to know that I carefully enunciate each word because I want to set the students up for success. I know you practice with them each week, please be sure to continue that. We do a spelling practice activity or structured lesson every day of the week in class. As the words may look like they are getting harder, I am building on what they should be learning along the way. For example, one of the words I said today was scrape. Several students wrote scrap. We did the silent e rule to make the vowel say its own name for at least four weeks. If your child did not understand that rule back then, this may be harder and harder to keep up with. It is important that the children are not just memorizing the words to pass the Friday test. It is important that they are learning the rules of spelling along the way so they can build on prior knowledge to expand their vocabulary and spelling skills.
We enjoyed sorting some animal puppets today and building an animal puzzle. The class will get to do those again next week among all the theme testing and math chapter 4 testing we will be doing next week. We are falling half way through this marking period, so before Christmas excitement really sets in, we will do a week of reading, writing, math, science, and social studies to see how the progress is coming along.
Tuesday is our Holiday Shop shopping day! The Morgan PTO does a wonderful job with hosting this fun event each year. If you want to help at all next week, please click on the PTO link from the home page and they have a sign up for you. All shopping items are one price, so it is easy to calculate how much money to send with your child and who you want them to shop for. Please clearly label an envelope with your child'd name, who they are shopping for, and how much money you are including. Thank you in advance for this little piece of organization!
Thank you so much for the donated books, stationary, gift cards, stickers, and treats for Miss. Hageman. The students will miss her. She enjoyed being in the class and getting to know your children these past few months. I'm not out very often, but if a meeting pops up, I will try to request her to be our guest teacher so the kids can see her again. We do wish her the very best.
Have a wonderful weekend!
We enjoyed sorting some animal puppets today and building an animal puzzle. The class will get to do those again next week among all the theme testing and math chapter 4 testing we will be doing next week. We are falling half way through this marking period, so before Christmas excitement really sets in, we will do a week of reading, writing, math, science, and social studies to see how the progress is coming along.
Tuesday is our Holiday Shop shopping day! The Morgan PTO does a wonderful job with hosting this fun event each year. If you want to help at all next week, please click on the PTO link from the home page and they have a sign up for you. All shopping items are one price, so it is easy to calculate how much money to send with your child and who you want them to shop for. Please clearly label an envelope with your child'd name, who they are shopping for, and how much money you are including. Thank you in advance for this little piece of organization!
Thank you so much for the donated books, stationary, gift cards, stickers, and treats for Miss. Hageman. The students will miss her. She enjoyed being in the class and getting to know your children these past few months. I'm not out very often, but if a meeting pops up, I will try to request her to be our guest teacher so the kids can see her again. We do wish her the very best.
Have a wonderful weekend!
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