The Week of January 15, 2018

Group 1

Spelling words:us, sun, but, lamp, jump, pump
Vocabulary words: eat, put, give, small, one, take
Student will practice to blend  words with short u and  final -ump blends 
Read the story Who Can help Cat? and answer the questions in the Write in Reader.
Read Who Likes to Jump? and find words with -ump blends.
We will  learn that a fantasy tells about made up people animals and events. We will read the fantasy A Cupcake party. We will discuss the importance of caring our friends while we read..
Group 2
Spelling words: hens, eggs ducks, bikes,boxes, wishes, dresses,foxes,glasses,bushes
Vocabulary words:understand, gathered, impatient, impossible,believe, problem, demand, furious
Students will listen to the passage Don't play cards with Dogs in The room and find the meanings of the highlighted words in the passage
Practice spelling and vocabulary words.
Students will practice words with ending sounds /s/ and /z/ in words such as books, girls, lakes and washes. students will learn that ending -es is added to base words that often end with s, ss, x, z, sh, ch,tch.
Read the story The Play date in write in reader and answer the questions.

Review singular and plural nouns.
Group 3-

Spelling words:talk, cross, awful,law, cloth, cost, crawl, sauce,mall,,yawn Bonus: small, often
Vocabulary words:invention, experiment, laboratory, genius, gadget, electric, signal, occasional
Students will practice to decode words with aw, al, au and o Students will learn that a followed by an l stands for the sound /aw/ like in salt and o can sometimes stands for the sound /aw/.
Students will read the story Aleck's Big Ideas and answer the questions in write in reader.

Discuss the topic Inventions and how they help people.Learn that a biography tells the true story of a person' life. We will read the biography Thomas Edison and and discuss the important traits an inventor should have..