newsletter 5/16/16

Mrs. Besselman’s Bulletin                               5/16/16

Goals for the week:

To continue to work with counting money and telling time.

To identify numbers to 120.

To use place value to show numbers to 120.

To begin to add and subtract numbers to 100.

To practice reading and writing words with vowel pairs.

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

To practice marking vowels and splitting syllables.

To know that –dge makes the /j/ sound at the end of a short vowel word.

  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, side, like , use, time, came, made, these, life, same, singing, hoping, running, better, begin, dinner, paper, ever, over, after, until, began, being, by, my, why, try, story, study, where, there, way, may, rain, wait, tail, whom, today, Sunday, maybe, paid, see, need, keep, each, read, three, feet, does, road, coat, own, show, toe, below, yellow, tie, pie, head, read, bread, heavy, ready, meant, weather, breath, thread, sweater, even, along, second, animal, away, children, seven, bottom, kitchen, problem, edge, wedge, badge, fudge, bridge, pledge, judge, trudge,

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, other, eye  from, give and live, where, there, whom, today, does, one, done, great, thought,

Word study words this week.  Unit 30 –oy, oi words.   Boy, enjoy, pint, join, spoil, destroy, choice, loyal, aren’t weren’t

To continue to use capital letters and punctuation in sentences.

To self edit and revise our writing.

To listen and respond to some favorite fairy tales and newer versions of the same story.

To identify point of view in a story.

To compare and contrast stories and characters in stories.

To identify character traits and to find evidence in the story to support.

To identify main idea and key details in a nonfiction text.

To retell a story.

To practice reading with fluency.

To continue our Plant unit.

 

Homework : 

 Practice your fluency while reading stories in your fluency folder.   Please study all word study units we have learned this year 1-30. Children should be able to read and write all word study words as well as the first 150 fry words on the sight word list in your fluency folder.