Spelling Review

This week’s spelling test will be a review of the previous 5 weeks of spelling. If your student has mastered these spelling patterns, they shouldn’t have any problems at all with the words. Please review these spelling words with your child. The test will be Thursday and can be any 15 words from this list.

Week 1
Final Syllable -le

• 1. ankle
• 2. title
• 3. apple
• 4. cable
• 5. purple
• 6. able
• 7. bugle
• 8. bundle
• 9. bubble
• 10. giggle
• 11. sparkle
• 12. tickle

Week 2
Dipthong oo, u

• 1. cook
• 2. stood
• 3. full
• 4. wood
• 5. July
• 6. shook
• 7. push
• 8. pull
• 9. brook
• 10. book
• 11. hood
• 12. put

Week 3
Diagraph ou, ow, oy, oi

• 1. around
• 2. out
• 3. gown
• 4. sound
• 5. flower
• 6. howl
• 7. toy
• 8. noise
• 9. royal
• 10. moist
• 11. coil
• 12. cow

Week 4
Syllable Pattern cv/vc and v/cv

• 1. downstairs
• 2. football
• 3. cowboy
• 4. houseboat
• 5. railroad
• 6. rainbow
• 7. boyhood
• 8. oatmeal
• 9. soybean
• 10. roadway
• 11. outplay
• 12. daydream

Week 5
Dipthong oo, ue, ew, ui

• 1. too
• 2. new
• 3. fruit
• 4. blue
• 5. true
• 6. fool
• 7. suit
• 8. spoon
• 9. clue
• 10. juice
• 11. drew
• 12. flew

Parent Teacher Conferences

Parent teacher conferences are coming up in the next two weeks. If you haven't signed up for a time please do so on the Butler Elementary website: http://butler.canyonsdistrict.org/

I will send home reminders of times and dates next week. Because of the conferences there is no school for students on Friday (2/28). Thank you

Spelling

You can support your child’s literacy skills by reviewing, discussing, and practicing the skills and concepts below:

Big Idea/Big Question (This is the theme of our unit in class.)	Question of the Week (This is the theme/question for this week’s instruction in class.)
Our Changing World:  How do things change?  How do they stay the same?	How do changes in the weather affect us?
Phonics Skills (These are the letters and sounds we are learning in class.)	Spelling Patterns and associated Words (These patterns connect to our phonics skills we are learning this week.)
Vowels oo, ue, ew, ui	Vowels oo, ue, ew, ui: blue   clue   drew   flew   fool   fruit   juice   new   spoon   suit   too   true
Spiral Review Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
around   enough   many   thought   took	awaken   cliffs   mountain   prize   rainbow   suffer   volcano
Oral Vocabulary (Try using these words in your conversations at home.)	Handwriting Practice (Students can practice the writing of these letters in manuscript this week.)
breeze   condition   funnel   predict   sparkle   swirl   terrifying   whip	Letter Size

Valentine's Day

This note went home earlier this week but in case you missed it here it is again:

Dear Parents,

         With Valentine’s Day approaching next week I wanted to get a class list out to you. Below you will find the first names of the children in our class. This is not mandatory but definitely something fun that they have been talking about and looking forward to. If you choose to send valentines to pass out please make sure that there is one for every student! Please have your child write out the name of whom the Valentine is to; this will expedite passing them out as well as help them with their handwriting practice!

 We will be having a class party on Valentine’s Day the last hour of school, which is when we will pass everything out. Prior to Valentine’s Day I have large envelopes that I will let them decorate so they do not need to worry about making a box or anything at home. Thank you!

-Miss Stanger

Keanu Ben

Madden

Porter Annie Nicole Jack

Aspen

Mason Charlotte Aedan Ava

Amethyst

Grayson Grant Alex

Andrew

Ella

Jayden Reece Lindsey Charlie Myles Clementine Alek Ian Chloe Christian Boone John

Spelling Words

You can support your child’s literacy skills by reviewing, discussing, and practicing the skills and concepts below:

Big Idea/Big Question (This is the theme of our unit in class.)	Question of the Week (This is the theme/question for this week’s instruction in class.)
Our Changing World:  How do things change?  How do they stay the same?	Why are some changes difficult?
Phonics Skills (These are the letters and sounds we are learning in class.)	Spelling Patterns and associated Words (These patterns connect to our phonics skills we are learning this week.)
Syllable Patterns: VCV (vowel consonant vowel – donate, moment) VCCV (vowel consonant consonant      vowel – boathouse, follow)	boyhood   cowboy   daydream   downstairs   football   houseboat   oatmeal   outplay    railroad   roadway   soybean
Spiral Review Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
friend   love   move   pretty   school	balance   canyons   coral   rattle   slivers   sway   whisper
Oral Vocabulary (Try using these words in your conversations at home.)	Handwriting Practice (Students can practice the writing of these letters in manuscript this week.)
accent   adjust   foreign   forlorn   landmark   quiver   tease   unexpected	Word Spacing

Spelling Words

I apologize for posting this so late in the week. Due to no school for students on Friday the spelling test and weekly reading test will be on Thursday.

You can support your child’s literacy skills by reviewing, discussing, and practicing the skills and concepts below:

Big Idea/Big Question (This is the theme of our unit in class.)	Question of the Week (This is the theme/question for this week’s instruction in class.)
Our Changing World:  How do things change?  How do they stay the same?	What changes occur under the ground?
Phonics Skills (These are the letters and sounds we are learning in class.)	Spelling Patterns and associated Words (These patterns connect to our phonics skills we are learning this week.)
Vowel Diphthongs: /ou/ spelled ou and ow; /oi/ spelled oi and oy	Vowel Diphthongs: /ou/ spelled ou and ow; /oi/ spelled oi and oy around   coil   cow   flower   gown   howl   moist   noise   out   pound   royal   toy
High Frequency Words (These reading words should be practiced and memorized.)	Story Words (These reading words are words from this week’s main selection.)
bear   build   couldn’t   father   love   mother   straight	grains   materials   particles   seeps   substances   texture
Oral Vocabulary (Try using these words in your conversations at home.)
blizzard   discovery   fine   incredible   landscape   molten   transform   underneath