SPELLING IDEAS
HERE ARE GREAT SPELLING IDEAS FOR STUDYING SPELLING WORDS!
Spelling suggestions Remember to complete a spelling quiz at home every Wednesday evening !
2 Color Words: When writing list words, write vowels in one color and consonants with another color. Example: SPELL
Spelling suggestions Remember to complete a spelling quiz at home every Wednesday evening !
2 Color Words: When writing list words, write vowels in one color and consonants with another color. Example: SPELL
Rainbow Words: Write each word once in your best writing. Trace over it in another color. Trace over it with a 3rd color.
Silly Sentences: Write 10 silly sentences using 2 spelling words in each sentence. Variation: Write a short, silly story using all of your spelling words.
Word Magic: Choose 10 words . Write the word once, then write it a 2nd time without the first letter, then write it without the first two letters. Repeat until the whole word disappears!
Example: SPELL, _PELL, _ _ELL, _ _ _ LL, _ _ _ _ L, _ _ _ _ _
Shortest to Longest: Count the # of letters in each word. Then write the words in order from shortest to longest.
ABC Order : Write your spelling words in alphabetical order. Variation: Write it in reverse ABC order.
Antonyms and Synonyms: Write your spelling words. Then write an antonym or synonym next to each word. Write (A) if you choose an antonym. Write (S) if you choose a synonym. Antonyms have opposite meanings, and synonyms have same meanings.
Example: SPELL and MISSPELL (A), or HAPPY and CHEERFUL (S)
Look It Up: Look up 10 list words in the dictionary. Write the word and the guide words from the same page. Example: SPELL, SAIL/TOP
Picture Words: Choose 10 words and create a picture with them. Be sure to label the pictures that match your spelling words.
Words in Words: Write your spelling words, then write as many words as you can discover from that word. No scrambling! Example:
UNBEARABLE: BE, BEAR, EAR, A, ARAB, ABLE
Ransom Words: Write 10 of your spelling words by cutting out the letters from a newspaper or magazine and gluing them to a piece of paper.
Telephone Words: Write each spelling word. Then translate each word into numbers from a telephone keypad.
Example: SPELL, 77355
Pyramid Words: Write the first letter of the spelling word. Write the first two letters of the word below it. Then write the next three letters, etc. Example:
S
SP
SPE
SPEL
SPELL
Cloud Words: Write each spelling word in puffy cloud-like letters.
SPELLING WORDS
Unit 15
my
try
mile
cry
fry
nice
by
sky
fine
dry
December 8 10:00 Elves workshop
Send $1.50 for cost
December 12-7:00
K-2 Christmas program
December 21-Christmas party
12:30-1:10
READING
The story for the week is Jamaica Louise James. Students will use a graphic organizer to make inferences about the character in our story. We will discuss our characters feelings during our story.
vocabulary words are:
Booth, plaque, station, subway, token
MATH
We will be working on subtracting 10 from a two-digit number and measuring with students drawing a line segment to the nearest half inch. We will work on adding two-digit numbers with sums greater than 100. We will learn to order three-digit numbers.
Study your subtraction facts!
Our Power Word will be different words we over use. Students will find words that mean the same but are more powerful words.
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