Over the weekend...

Friday students brought home three different activities for the weekend...and then a couple extra days! 

I have asked students to return the following by Tuesday, October 27th: 

Show What You Know! From Johhny Appleseed

Knowing and identifying seperated diagraphs

Who Was Johnny Appleseed? 

Students need to read the article and respond their understanding with evidence. My expectation is that students write one complete sentence for each of the five questions. We have been learning how to develop a structured sentence. 

Call the COPS:

C - Capitalization

O - Organization

P - Puncuation

S - Spelling (Many of the sounds we have learned within our code books with different diagraphs, seperated diagraphs, tricky letters, tricky words, suffixes and our spelling rules. These should help and come to mind when solving a more challenging word to spell)  

Fluency Reading

We have read The Milk in the classroom individually, with our reading partners, and as a whole group. Now students are bringing it home to you!

Ask your child what makes this story a fable?

What does it mean to have a moral to the story?

* This does NOT need to come back to the classroom

Seperated diagraphs

When a magic e is added it changes the sound of the vowel. In class we have talked about seperated diagraphs

o_e makes the sound /oe/

i_e makes the sound /ie/

a_e makes the sound /ae/

u_e makes the sound /ue/

e_e makes the sound /ee/

Diagraph = two letters coming together to make one sound.

Ask your child, what makes a seperated diagraph?

They have shown their understanding of the seperated diagraph by horseshoing the letters in words with the magic e. Then use those words to complete the sentences.