Today we worked on adding "r" to our vowels to make the "er" sound. Your child brought home a blank word search with a list of "r" words. I encouraged the third graders to create the word search and give it to a family member to complete. Have fun!
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This week we will learn about the many ways the long “o” sound can be made:
1. o_e as in cone 2. oa as in boat 3. ow as in snow 4. old as in cold Practice at home: Fill the sink with a little bit of water. Using your finger practice writing your words into the water! The long “i” sound can be made following many different patterns. This week we will learn about the following patterns:
1. i_e as in kite 2. igh as in light 3. y as in fly Practice at home: Try practicing your words at home this week by writing each word in a sentence. This week we are focusing on the different spelling patterns for the long /e/ sound.
1. ey as in hey 2. ee as in seed 3. ea as in bead 4. y as in early Practice at home: Try practicing your words at home this week by taking a practice test. Have mom or dad give you a spelling test. Any word that you got wrong write 3 times. The long a can be produced in many ways. We are going to focusing on 3 main spelling patterns of the long “a” this week:
1. “a-consonant-e” as in cake and face 2. “ay” as in hay and play 3. “ai” as in train and brain Practice at home: Try practicing your words at home this week by scrambling all the letters to each word. Then ask an adult or sibling to unscramble the words. Check their work. While reading Owl Moon, students will be identifying the compound predicates. Remembering that predicates are verbs we will be noticing how some sentences have more than one verb (or predicate). We will also talk about possessive pronouns. Possessive pronouns are pronouns that show ownership. For example: your, his, my, her, theirs are possessive pronouns.
This week the students will be learning the different ways to make the /er/ sound including:
ir as in bird er as in never ar as in farm ur as in turn or as in form Practice at home: Try practicing your words at home this week by setting the timer for 3 minutes. See how many of your words you and write before the timer goes off. Homophones are two words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings. There, they’re, and their; too, two, and to; bee and be are all examples of homophones. We will work on learning the different meaning and spellings of these tricky words this week. Practice at home: Try practicing your words at home this week by using a flashlight. Bring a flashlight into a dark room. Use your flashlight to “write” each spelling word. When we take two words and smash them together into one word we create compound words! Houseboat, cupcake, sunshine, and bookworm are all examples of compound words. If we can spell the smaller words correctly we can also spell the larger word correctly! Practice at home: Try practicing your words at home this week by getting in some exercise! Do a jumping jack or push up for each letter of your spelling words. We are still working on really learning our long vowel spelling patterns. This week we will learn that the long u sound can be made with u-consonant-e, as in flute. It can also be made with “oo” as in tooth.
Practice at home: Try practicing your words at home this week by writing them in alphabetical order. |
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