Electronic Homework & Reading

The students brought home the new Unit 4 Spelling Words.  The list is also below.  I am hoping to have some responses to the new electronic homework option.  This is great to teach the students to use technology for a bit of studying.  I am glad all of my families are learning to post to the blog.

1.    doze

2.    nose

3.    use

4.    rose

5.    pole

6.    close

7.    cute

8.    woke

9.    mule

10.   rode

11.   role

12.   tune

13.   home

14.   joke

15.   wrote

16.   ice cube

Optional Homework:

*Find some silent e words & share them in an email to the teacher or on our blog

*Try a new way to study your words & share your idea in an email to the teacher or on the blog

We have been working on the reading idea of Fluency which involves Rate (speed), Phrasing (not reading one word at a time), and intonation (using a character's voice). The story today "Diary of a Spider" gives us a chance to practice all three!  When we read outloud in class as a group and then outloud with a partner we really enjoyed this story!  Reading it outloud is more fun and it only took us 10 minutes to read through the story (not rushing).  Our class pet loves a group of students reading a story outloud to him.  It is by far one of his most favorite times of the day!