Spelling Words Sept. 17-21

Spelling
Groups 1 & 2
1. pet
2. nut
3. help
4. mud
5. bell
6. jump
7. test
8. hug
9. yes
10. sun
11. life
12. always
13. those
14. both
15. paper
16. together
17. got
18. group
19. often
20. run
21. thousand
22. hundred
23. million
24. billion
25. Constitution

Group 3
1. cap
2. sale
3. lake
4. last
5. nail
6. wave
7. wait
8. laugh
9. maze
10. sail
11. life
12. always
13. those
14. both
15. paper
16. together
17. got
18. group
19. often
20. run
21. thousand
22. hundred
23. million
24. billion
25. Constitution

Group 4
1. dish
2. hike
3. chip
4. ride
5. give
6. king
7. white
8. rich
9. whip
10. dime
11. life
12. always
13. those
14. both
15. paper
16. together
17. got
18. group
19. often
20. run
21. thousand
22. hundred
23. million
24. billion
25. Constitution

Group 5
1. crude
2. suit
3. knew
4. bruise
5. fuel
6. threw
7. flute
8. juice
9. screw
10. chew
11. life
12. always
13. those
14. both
15. paper
16. together
17. got
18. group
19. often
20. run
21. thousand
22. hundred
23. million
24. billion
25. Constitution

**Remember to practice correct capitalization with your child.  We have been practicing in class, but sometimes they still get confused.  Starting last week, if your child uses incorrect capitalization on their spelling words, the word will be wrong. 
**Only proper nouns receive a capital letter.

Math--Easy as 1-2-3
Wednesday, we will have our place value test.  Watch for the review that will come home on Monday.  On Thursday and Friday, we will begin our money unit.

Social Studies--Constitution Week
We are learning some basic geography facts about ourselves.  Your child will need to know his/her address, city, state, country and other state general knowledge.  Additionally, your child has been working on reciting a portion of the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.  The social studies test will be on Thursday.  Please watch for the study sheet to come home on Monday. 

Reading
We are learning about Fairy Tales.  Last week, we learned that a traditional fairy tale has certain elements. 

• magic
• royalty (sometimes involved)
• flat characters (good stay good and bad stay bad)
• Sometimes begin, "Once upon a time..." and end "And they lived happily ever after."

This week, we will compare traditional fairy tales to fractured fairy tales.  We will be talking about point of view.  We will read several stories from the bad characters point of view.  How is the story the same?  How is the story different?

We will have a reading test on Friday.  This will be a blind selection.  Students will need to go back and prove their answers.  Proving (a.k.a. underlining and referencing the question) will count as one point.  Correctly answering the question will count as another point. 

If you have any questions, please give me a call.  For those of you that called this weekend, I will call you after school on Monday after 4:00 p.m.  I was under the weather this weekend...I don't think it helped that my family volunteered for Race for the Cure at 6:00 in the morning on Saturday.  If it hadn't been for my daughter's insistence, I would have stayed in bed!

*Progress reports will go home on Friday.  Please check your child's STAR folder.*