Spelling Skills

Today you will find a spelling skill worksheet in your child's home/school folder.  This worksheet tells you the skill that we are working on this week as well as the red word(s) that are being introduced for mastery. This worksheet will come home every Monday unless we are having a proficiency test. While there is NO homework to turn into me, I ask that you take just 5-10 minutes a night to review this skill with your child.  This week, we are reviewing short vowels and talking about ending punctuation.  Here are some ideas of things you can do to practice short vowels with your child!

• make a list of some of the short vowel words that they know and check their spelling.
• ask them to spell various short vowel words
• have them make up sentences that have 2 short vowel words and make sure they use the proper punctuation
• play "I Spy" with a book -- have your child read a book and look for 5 words that have a short a (or any short vowel sound)
• make flashcards with various short vowel words and play "Go Fish" or "Memory"
• write down the red words that we have learned (although there are only 2 at this point) and play "Go Fish" or "Memory"
• make word families for various short vowels such as -at, -ip, -ot, -ug, -et

I hope this helps!  Thank you so much for your support and help at home!

P.S. - Math homework will start coming home this Wednesday!