The Shopping List

Snow Days:

I have heard we are supposed to get a lot of snow this coming week. I have put school closing websites on the right sidebar. You can click on those sites for closings or delays.

Food Pictures:

• We are working this week on The Shopping List.
• We are going to make a cupboard full of food.
• Please bring in a few pictures of food by the end of week.
• We are going to sort these pictures by healthy foods and unhealthy foods.
  

Spelling:
There are now 12 words and not 10.
The last two words are sight words that are hard to spell and do not follow a usual phonics pattern.

100 Day Projects

• This project is to be done at home.
• Do not hurry this project.
• You have plenty of time to complete it
• Come up with a creative idea of something to collect.
• I put examples on the blog earlier. Refer to those pictures to get ideas. Try not to do exactly what is on there.
• I put those on there to give you ideas and to show you the level of work that I expect. These projects got A+. Any projects that does not have this level of neatness or care into it will not get an A+.
• Please have your child spend TIME on this project.
• I do not want it to be something they just threw together in 5 minutes.
• Have some pride in this – they should be proud of it and want the whole school to see it in the hallway.
• If they are drawing, use crayons, markers, glitter -- NO PENCILS!
  

READING AND SPELLING:·

• Our story is The Shopping List.
• · Language: was and were·
• Spelling Words: long i –
  

Long i

1. kite

2. bite

3. white

4. ride

5. wide

6. side

7. hide

8. pile

9. smile

10. while

11. this

12. were

- long i – consonant – sneaky e
- There is now 12 words and not 10.

· Reading Skills: comprehension, charts, cause and effect, and s and es as endings.

Math:

We will be starting chapter 14.