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Nov 13th & 14th

High Frequency Words

We will be working on spelling the First 300 High Frequency words with a spelling test each Friday. During the week please practice reading, writing and nicely printing these words. The words this week are:



Expanding Sentences

-This week (an next week!) we will continue to practice how to expand sentences with when, where, what and why.
-We talked about a 'boring sentence' and then talking about the details that we can add to help readers get a clear picture of whats happening



Counting within 1000

-We have been practicing count forward and backward by 1s within 1000 starting at any number.
-This week, we used a 100s chart as a tool to help us with larger numbers as we counted forwards and backwards
-Next week we will continue but use a number line as a tool



Cardinal Directions

-We learned that cardinal directions are the main directions like North, East, South, and West. They are super helpful because they always tell us exactly which way to go!

-We learned about a compass rose (A compass rose is a special picture on a map that shows us all the directions, like North, East, South, and West).



Phonics

- We looked at words with VCe patterns and exeptions

- When the letter C is followed by a silent E it spells /s/. and when the letter G is followed by a silent E it spells /j/

- Two exceptions for the silent e pattern are:

    - VE - some words with VE have vowels that make the short sound not the long sound (e.g. give, live and have). This happens because in English words are not allowed to end with a v.

    - Scribal O - In some silent e words there is an O that sounds like a short U. It is believed that a long time ago scribes had a hard time reading the U next to similar looking letters so they changed it to O to make it easier to read. (e.g. come, done, love, none, and some)

- Please check your child's red folder this weekend and read the decodables we practiced this week

- If your child did not draw, or finish, their picture you could encourage them to do so

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