Week of December 16, 2019

Ready for our Runaway Cookie play!

A Special Week

   As you probably know, it is very difficult to compete with Santa Claus. For that reason, this was a very “unusual” week. We did not do any of our usual activities. Instead we did special activities each day. I think the children didn’t even realize they were learning at the same time!

Here is a short list of things you could ask your child to do if they say they are "bored"over the vacation.
1. Write your numbers from 0 to 20 or beyond
2. Write all of your muscle words.
3. Write a story for Mrs. E (if you bring it to school we can read it to the class)
4. Read, read, read!!!!
5. Play a card or board game
6. Draw a picture and label 5 things in the picture
7. Write some Super Muscle Word family words (see examples below)
8. Write some addition equations
9. Make some patterns out of objects around the house (coins, cereal, stickers...)
10. Write a letter to Mrs. E about your vacation and mail it to school...we will read it to the whole class when we get back

Cambridge Elementary School

Mrs. Edgerton

186 School Street

Jeffersonville, VT 05464

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday and I will see you in 2020!

Our Muscle Word list as of December 20, 2019

*Please check the Writer's Workshop page in this blog for an updated list every week.

* an	I	yes	me
is	see	to	the
can	a	no	be
do	and	he	she
big	you	*it	little
your	we	my	* am
*at	*in

* Super Muscle Words = muscle words used to make word families

Examples:

an - pan, tan, man, can, and, hand…

am - Pam, bam, ham, Sam, ram…

at - cat, hat, rat, that
it - pit, fit, bit
in - thin, pin, bin

The children are starting to make connections to other words by using the muscle words they know.

Example:

If you can spell my, you can spell by because they end the same and all you have to do is change the beginning sound.

If you can spell no, you can spell go because they end the same and all you have to do is change the beginning sound.