Read Every Day!

Every Monday we introduce the new spelling list for the week.  This week's list concentrates on the long 'e' sound, and the spelling patterns e, e_e, ee, ea. _ie, and _y.  Here are this week's words:
1.  steel
2.  fleet
3.  seaweed
4.  wreath
5.  measles
6.  scream
7.  least
8.  yield
9.  shield
10.  shriek
11.  thief
12.  donkey
13.  hockey
14.  trolley
15.  niece
16.  prairie
17.  eager
18.  seals
19.  married
20.  sneak

For Greek and Latin roots this week we are concentrating on words containing the root 'graph':  autobiography, autograph, bibliography, biography, cartography, homograph, paragraph, phonograph, photography, and seismograph.  In writing we are working on multi-paragraph form.

Our story this week is from Greek mythology, the story of Daedalus and Icarus.  In math we are concentrating on place value concepts.  Students should know place values up to the millions.  Ther should also know the difference between standard form, word form and expanded form for a given number.  For example, for the number 213 we would have:

     a.  Standard form:  213
     b.  Word form:  two hundred thirteen
     c.   Expanded form:  200 + 10 + 3

Homework for tonight:
     1.  Spelling workbook p. 12
     2.  Math:   Miss W's group:  RW2
                      Mr. Spaulding's group:  RW3
     3.  Read for half an hour.
     4.  Get a parent initial.

Here is a picture of Daedalus falling out of the sky: