Yikes!

Yikes! It's Wednesday already! This week certainly has gotten away from me. I apologize for the delay in the Spelling word post on the website and the SpellingCity site, which you can access here.

We've had a busy week in B-7. We began Unit 2 in reading this week. The theme of this unit is Communities. Some of the skills we will be learning include:

• sh/th
  
• long vowels
• ch/wh
• endings (ed, ing)
• contractions
  

The students were excited to get their second book to bring home this evening. Please read the story A Big Fish for Max. Have your child read the story for fluency. Reading fluently is reading in which words are recognized automatically. We call it "smooth sailing" in B-7. We don't want "choppy waters!" :) If your child is reading fluently, he/she will be able to read through the story without stopping to sound out words.

We've also been working on our Published Books this week. As a class, we decided on a turkey theme. The students are very excited to become published authors, and have taken such pride in their writing and illustrations for book.