Back to the Books!
The circus is a hard act to follow! I hope your children told you lots about the experience. Please check out their responses on the social studies page. As you know, we took this opportunity to delve into the Chinese New Celebration as we were acrobats from China. We gave these paragraphs to Master Kevin before he left. He was over the moon with the children’s gifts of words.
This week we jumped back into the books. Your student should be studying his or her spelling words that are focused on two generalizations. The first, “when a word ends with a vowel sound, it probably is represented by /y/ or a vowel and /y/. The examples are reply and play. Secondly, “sometimes vowel letters make a pattern in which one vowel is long and one is silent, as in railroad and teacher”. Test is Friday.
This morning we met about Valentine’s Day celebration and I learned that some children were making valentines and some were not. The group agreed that they would all like to exchange cards so we decided to open cards on Monday. Then after talking with Elizabeth this afternoon I realized where the confusion stemmed from. When I wrote about the Chinese New Year party replacing the typical Valentine’s Day party, I meant with regard to food snacks. So, tomorrow we will partake in a lovely Chinese New Year meal and on Monday we will exchange Valentines.
