During our grammar and word work lessons, we will begin to learn about the parts of speech called nouns. A noun is a person, place, thing, or animal. We will be exploring proper nouns and common nouns.
Reading/Spelling: Our next UFLI Phonics lessons (Reading and Spelling) will focus on reviewing the consonant digraphs learned last year. A consonant digraph is two consonants that come together to make one sound. We began last week by learning the -FLSZ rule. The -flsz Rule (or "Floss Rule") means that in a one syllable word, if a short vowel is followed by an f, l, s, or z, then the consonant is doubled, as in the words off, bell, pass, buzz. (see last week's blog post). This week, we will review the following digraphs:
1- /LL/ sound: Sometimes, when LL comes after the vowels A, O, and U, the LL changes the vowel sound, such as in the following words:
-all: ball, call, fall, hall, mall, small, stall, tall, wall
-oll: poll, roll, toll, troll
-ull: bull, full, pull
2- voiced /th/ (which comes at the beginning of a word), such as in the words then, that, this, them
3- unvoiced /th/ (also called "voiceless"), such as in the words thin, bath, thanks
4- -ck (When we hear the /k/ sound at the end of a word after a short vowel, we spell it with a ck, like at the end of the words duck, rock, black, sick, quack, stick, clock
5- /ch/, (which can come at the beginning or end of a one-syllable word) as in the words chin, chest, check, rich, such, lunch.
6- /wh/, (which comes at the beginning of a word) as in the words which, whim, when, whiz.
7- /ph/, as in the words phone, graph, Phil, Steph.
REMINDER: What Are "Heart" Words?
Many common words present challenges to children because they are irregular in some way. These words contain letters or letter combinations that do not follow the most common letter-sound correspondences, and those must be learned “by heart,” hence the term “heart” words. Some words are permanently irregular (the sounds of the letters are unique to that word or to a very small number of words) and others are temporarily irregular (words in which we have not yet learned the letter-sound correspondences in the word).
This week's Heart Words: go, no, so, goes, says, she, we, they, their.
Please also review the following "heart words" that your child would have learned last year: the, I, a, and, said, to, do, of, see, he, be, me, from, you, what, have, look, book, are, was, your, want, *go, *no, *so, *goes, *says, *she, *we, *they, *their.
**At the end of next week, we will have a "spelling check-in" so please help your child learn how to spell and write the heart words learned so far. See the list above.
Religion:
This week we will prepare for Thanksgiving. We will discuss what we are thankful for and how we can use prayer to show that we are thankful.
Physical Education:
We have begun our soccer unit. We will continue to practise our dribbling and trapping skills.
In Visual Arts, we will continue our learning about the primary and secondary colours and the colour wheel. We have been exploring creating works of art using these colours. Ask your child about their beautiful Mondrian-style art work.
Tuesday, October 7 - Wear your hockey jersey or red and white
Wednesday, October 8 - School photo day
Thursday, October 9 - Library books due
Friday, October 10 - P.D. Day: No school
Monday, October 13 - Thanksgiving: No school
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