Thanks to all the parents who took time to meet with me to learn about their child's progress and goals for the remainder of the semester. I enjoyed getting to meet everyone. A few conferences remain and I look forward to meeting with those parents as well. My students are very lucky to have the great parents that they do.
Today we were introduced to r-controlled 'a' vowel card, /ar/ spelled 'ar'. These types of spelling patterns are sometimes refered to as "murmur diphthongs." Others of this type of diphthong will soon follow. One person completed seminar and moved on to revising. We will look forward to others moving on in the days to come.
More word problems in math today. That means we will be at the end of a math topic/chapter soon. There will not be a test for topic 6. Homework is the corresponding math sheet.
One homework aside: The "pig" card is named pig for "Giggles" the pig who says /i/ when you tickle her on the chin. I realize that sometimes the short vowel cards may cause some confusion at home. The short vowels are intentionally imbedded in cvc (consonant-vowel-consonant or "closed syllables", the final consonant being the most important) type spelling patterns: lamb, hen, pig,..etc., as that is usually how they appear in words and syllables. This is different than long vowels which are often either entirely alone in a syllable or otherwise only preceded by a consonant (open syllable) eg. the 'si' in silent. We have yet to introduce any long vowel spelling patterns; things will get tough.
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