May 19th- 22nd

Phonics: Signal Vowels

-When followed by E, I, and Y, C spells /s/ and G spells /j/

- The 'signal vowels' signal, or tell us, that something will be different in a word

-c /s/: When c is followed by an A,O or U it makes the /k/ sound

When c is followed by E, I or Y it makes the /s/ sound

-g/j/: when G is followed by an A, O, or U it makes the /g/ sound 

-When G is followed by E,I or Y it makes the /j/ sound

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: 

watch, far, real, almost, let, above, girl, sometimes, mountain, cut

Measurement- Lengths of Yarn

-We first measure estimate the length of pieces of yarn and then determine the measurement using counters

- We discussed the differences between yarn lengths, as well as the differences between our estimates and the actual measurements

 

Animal Research

-We have been spending time on the computers researching an animal of our choice

-We are finding information on Pebble Go

-When we finish gathering all of our information we will transfer our information to a Google Slide Presentation

Weaving

- On Friday, we learned how to weave with Mrs. Thompson's class

- Thank you so much for bringing in yarn, earlier this year

- We had a lot of fun and will continue working on our weaving skills for the rest of the year