Word Sorts - Week of 11-9

Hello 3rd Grade Families,
Below you will find the new word lists for the week:

Sort 15 Miss Swanson and Miss Kelsey

Short -u and Long -u (CVCe and CVVC)

ŭ CVC	ū CVCe	ūi CVVC
ŌŌ CVVC	cube	food
fruit	crust	bloom
smooth	suit	from
dude	skunk	broom
mood	bump	juice
trust	build	moon
prune	spoon	tooth

Sort 22 Mrs. Williams

Short -i and Long -i (CVCe, CVVC -igh, and CV Open Syllable -y)

ĭ CVC	ī CVCe	īgh VCC
y = ī CV	might	quick
why	white	high
night	twice	quite
cry	bright	sky
quit	fight	fly
flight	sight	fine
try	live	write
sigh	shy	right

Yellow Sort 48 Mrs. Smith

More Long -a Homophones

days	ate	way
wade	bear	wait
slay	vain	brake
eight	daze	weighed
vein	weigh	reign
pair	sleigh	weight
stake	rain	steak
break	vane	bare
pare	rein	pear

Green Sort 27 Mrs. Smith

Schwa + r Spelled er, ir, and ur in First Syllables

er

ir

ur

oddball

nervous	thirty	sturdy
firmly	person	purpose
perfect	further	dirty
hurry	birthday	certain
spirit	mermaid	Thursday
perhaps	turtle	thirsty
birdbath	service	furnish
during	every	purple

Welcome November!

Whew!  What a whirlwind last week was.  With conferences, Halloween, and a full moon it was a jam packed week of crazy fun! :)

It was wonderful to see so many families at conferences.  I was able to meet with almost everyone and truly enjoyed my time with each of you.  Thank you for taking the time to come in and meet with me.

This week we are beginning a new story, Arrow to the Sun, and continuing our study of the regions of the United States.  We also continue working with multiplication and division in math.  We have covered almost all of our facts at this point, so we will continue to practice strategies to make ourselves more efficient and fluent with those facts.  Science has us looking at the engineering design process and we are trying our hands at an assembly line this week.  Which will be more efficient, working alone or in an assembly line?

One other important piece of news to pass on is Picture Retake Day.  Retakes will take place on Friday, November 6th for those interested.

Words Their Way lists can be found below:

Short Week

Hello All!

We have a 3 day week for students this week, with Teacher Inservice on Thursday and Friday. Because of the shortened week, students will have the same Words Their Way words for 2 weeks. Words can be found below:

Ms. Kelsey and Ms. Swanson

 Mrs. Smith

 Mrs. Smith

 Mrs. Williams

Welcome!

Welcome 3rd Grade Families!

Our year is off to a great start.  We are getting settled in and moving to our normal schedule now, which means we are beginning Words Their Way and WIN (What I Need) groups.  These are wonderful instructional times where students receive differentiated instruction to meet their needs.

In an effort to move toward "paperless", Words Their Way lists will be posted on the 3rd grade teachers' blogs each week.  Lists for all groups will be posted here, so regardless of who your child's Words Their Way teacher is, your student's list can be found here.

I hope you will find the blog to be a helpful source of information for what is happening at SES and in 3rd grade!

                      Miss Kelsey and Miss Swanson
                                        Sort 12

Mrs. Smith

Sort 45

Mrs. Smith

Sort 24

Mrs. Williams

Sort 19