Welcome February!

It is hard to believe that we are beginning February and our 3rd quarter of school!  It sounds like students enjoyed their long weekend.  They certainly had a lot of exciting stories to tell this morning.

Here are word lists for the week:

Yellow Sort 24 Ms. Swanson

Review of Long Vowel Patterns

CVCC	CVVC	CVCe
CV & CVV Open Syllable	sold	bleed
wave	glow	hold
steep	tone	clue
grind	sneak	slide
dry	crow	blind
school	jail	soak
scene	drew	light
pool	way	feast

Green Sort 8 Miss Kelsey

Unusual Plurals

fe > ves	vowel change	no change
wife	wives	sheep
foot	feet	loaf
lives	women	leaves
leaf	geese	woman
mouse	loaves	life
wolves	mice	goose
knives	knife	wolf
tooth	deer	teeth

Sort 31 Mrs. Williams

Long -o, -oi, -oy

oi	oy	boy
point	whole	soil
noise	soy	spoil
join	coil	joy
foil	moist	joint
boil	toy	voice
coin	broil	cloak
choke	oil	stole
choice	loan	bowl

Green Sort 36 Mrs. Smith

Final -y, -ey, and -ie

-ey

-ie

-y = e

-y = i

money	cookie	very
July	monkey	movie
candy	deny	journey
brownie	dizzy	reply
valley	goalie	twenty
turkey	eerie	cherry
donkey	story	body
volley	pinkie	berry

Word Lists - Week of 1/25

Here are the word lists for this week:

Sort 23 Miss Swanson

Short -i and Long -i (VCC) with Short -o

and Long -o (VCC)

ĭ VCC	ī VCC	ŏ VCC
ō VCC	find	most
film	lost	child
moth	cost	both
kind	roll	fist
cold	scold	gold
told	wild	soft
post	friend	wind
blind	ghost	mind

Yellow Sort 30 Mrs. Williams

Review of ar, Schwa-plus-r, and or

ar	ǝr	or
jar	earn	thorn
search	warm	hoarse
hard	pearl	horse
worth	core	worn
worst	chore	snore
warn	sir	yarn
spur	score	lurk
march	bore	boar

Green Sort 7 Miss Kelsey

Plural Endings: Adding -es

add -es	add -s	oddball
benches	horses	foxes
guesses	brushes	speeches
splashes	scratches	clothes
mixes	churches	crashes
voices	peaches	classes
kisses	sketches	ditches
leashes	changes	branches
watches	places	ashes

Green Sort 35  Mrs. Smith

Unaccented Final Syllables (et, it, ate)

-et

-it

-ate

oddball

jacket	edit	climate
secret	private	unit
ballet	target	credit
pirate	racket	limit
senate	buffet	quiet
habit	comet	rocket
summit	closet	bandit
orbit	magnet	merit