Monday, February 6th

Hi Parents,

Here are the spelling words for this week:
Frequent Spelling Patterns for soft-syllable endings for / l/ and / r/

1. camel
2. nickel
3. jewel
4. tunnel
5. level
6. local
7. loyal
8. normal
9. eagle
10. needle
11. jungle
12. doctor
13. author
14. sailor
15. cellar
16. grammar
17. collar
18. dollar
19. father
20. mother
21. teacher
22. painter

Bonus
bundle
cruel
several
scholar

Our Valentine's day Party is on February 14th in the afternoon from 2:15-3:10. You should have received two letters on Thursday concerning the party. One had a list of the students' names in our class, the other was from our room Mom, Mrs. Payne telling you to contact her if you would like to help supply things for the party.

Our snow shoe day was canceled for this week due to lack of snow (never thought that would be a problem in Montana!). They hope to reschedule it for sometime in March.

Please continue to work with your students on multiplication. It is very important for them to have quick recall of the facts. There are wonderful multiplication games on the computer (www.multiplication.com), but good-old fashioned flash cards work wonders as well!

In reading this week, we are focusing on comparing and contrasting characters to understand characteristics.