Newsletter 5/6/13

Mrs. Besselman’s Bulletin                               5/6/13 

Goals for the week:

To continue our investigation unit on patterns we are looking at growing patterns.

To continue to identify and count coins.

To continue to work on time and fractions.

To review all short  and long vowel sounds.

To practice finding long vowel words with vowel pairs and magic e.

To add the ending ed and ing to words with short and long vowels.

To review alll the phonics rules we have been learning so far.

  Word study words to know: am, at, cat, sat, bat, fat, as, has, can, an, man, had, van, sad, to, bad, rag, in big, is, did, if, it, his, pack, said, sick, tack, back, kid, cab, of sack, pack, Its, him, quit, six, fix, wax, on, got, not, box, job, off, will, miss, fix, pass, long, ring, pink, what, bank, sang. inch, whip, whiff, chill, that, thing, with, this, dish, thank, well, men get, tell, set, let, when, them, then, Flag, plan, sled, class, glad, black, fresh, bring, grass drink, crack, press, Twin, spell, still, swim, snack, skin, smell, Up, truck, sun, but, us, clock, napkin, cannot, upset, into jacket, path, spring, scrub, scrap, splash, string, squid, and, last, hand, best, went, end, left, desk, help, must, do and, two, many, milk, kept, such, much, which, rich, catch, pitch, stitch, stretch, far, part, charm, jar, dark, star, park. Her, first, part, form, hard, far, for, or, no, go, so, he, be, she, me. jumped, grabbed, looked, stuffed, baked. Take, home, name, make, line, those, white, while. Take. side, like , use, time, came, made, these, life, same, singing, hoping, running.

Red words to know, to, the, have, said, of, was, you, are, put, what, should, would, could, they, your,  Mr. and Mrs., into, were, do, and, two, many, very, once and whose, here, from, give and live.

Word study words this week :  We are moving on to unit 22.  We will be reviewing how to split syllables.  Words include: begin, better, paper, dinner, ever, over, after, until, began, being.

VcIcv is the pattern

To continue to use capital letters and punctuation in sentences.

To self edit our writing using our writer’s eye.

To listen and respond to A Mother For Choco.

To listen to many Mother’s day books.

To appreciate our Mother’s by making gifts.

To identify cause and effect.

To identify sequence in a story.

To compare and contrast.

To use describing words.

To practice reading with fluency.

To continue our plant unit!

Homework :   Send in a picture of Mom!  Close up works best.

Monday: Literacy Activity

Tuesday:  Scholastic News

Wednesday:  math page

Thursday:  study word study words  (all units and red words) and math facts

Friday: