Good Evening! Tomorrow (Wednesday) I will not be in school. I'll be back on Thursday. Please remember to turn in permission slips for the field trip to the Lowry Park Zoo. Here are this week's Spelling Words for 5th and 6th Grade:
shrug
tundra
dollar
chosen
Ohio
throb
locate
umpire
Josiah
throne
poetry
hungry
Reuben
accuse
usually
problem
confuse
parachute
amused
profit
Bonus: astride, anointed, courtier, musicians, royalty
Our words this week deal with the Long and Short sounds of both /o/ and /u/. Using /o/ at the beginning of the word takes on the can have the long or short sound such as in Ohio (long) and octopus (short). Short /o/ also uses the CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) pattern as in words like hot, top, bottom, etc. Long /o/ is made in double vowel combinations such as in poetry or boat or woe and in the CVCe (consonant-vowel-consonant-silent e) pattern of words like throne or lonely. The short u sound is made by words using the CVC pattern like the words cut or number. The long u sound is made by words using the CVCe pattern and when /u/ is in combination with another vowel such as in words like fuse, rude, or in words like hue, or glue. Exceptions would include Reuben or usually.
Homework tonight:
Define each spelling word.
Complete English classwork.
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