Week of 1/05/09  (review week)

angry          friend           build            help             together       eye

explain         school         teacher         writing         sad              look

written         whale           dolphin        ocean          little             down

woman        money         won’t          where          kind             below

write            about           shoe            could           would          join

doesn’t        around         son              sun              night            knight

why             who             listen            tomorrow    today           asked

laugh           everyone      carry            beautiful       through        known

country        found          odor            favorite        witch           ditch

bicycle         warm           heard           vacation       create          forest

My friend saw a dolphin and a whale swim in the ocean.

The teacher, at school, will help me with my writing.

I could not explain why I was angry.

“My favorite thing to do is ride my bicycle,” said Ann.    

“Can you hear that sound?” asked Molly.

The family has a boy and a girl.

The man and the woman saw the little cat play with the puppy.

The duck chased the bug around the house.

I wish we could join them.

Spelling words

morning     snowing    dawn    winter    sunset    blowing

exist         believe     reason     happiness    cooperate    gladly

Please continue to practice spelling and Word Wall Words with your child every night.  I can see a big diifference in their reading, especially when they recognize words we have practiced during their regular reading assignments.  Here are the lists for this week:

Spelling List

raise     over     tiny     white      babies     useful     animal     fastest     funniest     fearless     early     measure     friend     heard     break     beautiful     peoplpe     vacation     clothes    night     knight (please remind them that this one works for a king, so it has a “k”)   peace     piece (like a piece of pie, which is in the word)   their     there (location, that’s why “here” is in it) 

Please use the words in parentheses as clues to help them study.

Word Wall Words (quiz on Friday)

vacation     nation     listen     station     air     use     heard     said     yell     time    watch     witch     ditch     ride     bicycle     warm     favorite     your

We went on a warm vacation.

“My favorite thing to do is ride my bicycle,” said Ann.

forest                   kind                      knight                  through

beautiful              country                create                   known

power                  animal                  found                   odor                    

Everybody was careful around the elephant.

He likes to make everyone laugh.

Review words

there                     where                   when                    they

listen                    laugh                    altogether  

He likes to make everyone laugh.

 “Can you hear that sound?” asked Molly.

Spelling Words

war     their     there     night     knight     piece     peace     castle     story     princess

Study tip:

When studying “piece” and “peace”, I try to remind the students that “piece” has the word “pie” in it to help them remember that it’s a piece of pie.

When studying “night” and “knight”, I remind them that the word spelled k-n-i-g-h-t is the one that works for a king, so that’s why it has a “k” on the front of it.

Week of 10/20/08  (review week)

we               them            could           would          sun              wish

she              us                give             joy               son              join

about           house          around         below          shoe            bug

kind             thing            right             write            duck            rock

money         other            again            does            doesn’t        can’t

didn’t          won’t          let’s             isn’t             hasn’t          toy

little             cat               play             man             kitten           help

woman        puppy                   up               dog             take             down

together       family can              hand            see              they  

eye              look             boy             girl               sad              where

why             who

The sun gives light to us.

I wish we could join them.

The duck chased the bug around the house.           

We can’t play with the other toy today.

The family has a boy and a girl

Spelling words- week of 10/20/08

April             duckling       duckweed        babies        tadpole      white       those          tiny     over     raise

found     around      country      tower       given      again       different       carry       Mississippi     they’re

o’clock      together      coach      everyone       point       between     believe     title     find     swim     drink

Word wall words

Week of 10/13/08

we              them           could                   would         sun             wish

she              us               give            joy              son             join

The sun gives light to us.

I wish we could join them.

some      money       does     other     given     again     save     bank     change     read

Word wall    

money                  other                    again                    does

doesn’t                 can’t                     didn’t                   won’t

let’s                      isn’t                     hasn’t                   toy             

We can’t play with the other toy today.

Review Words

where                   why                      there                     who

together               family                   puppy                   down

woman      

The family has a boy and a girl.

The man and woman saw the little cat play with the puppy.

Spelling test and Word Wall quiz will be on Thursday, 9/25/08

carry     different     Mississippi     backpack     letter     pattern     middle     zipper     compass     river

New word wall words

little                     man                      woman                 dog

cat                        kitten                   puppy                   take

play                      help                      up                         down

The man and woman saw the little cat play with the puppy.

Review words

where                   why                      there                     who

together               family        

The family has a boy and a girl.