Monday, April 25, 2016

WTW

WTW for April 25-29

Mrs. Williams
Yellow Sort 40
Final e: -ce, -ve, -se, -ze

-ce
-ve
-se
-ze

chance
move
please
freeze
tease
leave
glove
choose
dance
fence
shove
loose
glance
piece
cheese
peace
prince
solve
bounce
prove
house
snooze
twelve
seize

Mrs. Smith
Green Sort 8
Unusual Plurals

fe > ves
vowel change
no change
wife
wives
sheep
foot
feet
loaf
lives
women
leaves
leaf
geese
woman
mouse
loaves
life
wolves
mice
goose
knives
knife
wolf
tooth
deer
teeth
Miss Kelsey
Green Sort 27
Schwa + r Spelled er, ir, and ur in First Syllables

er
ir
ur
oddball

nervous
thirty
sturdy
firmly
person
purpose
perfect
further
dirty
hurry
birthday
certain
spirit
mermaid
Thursday
perhaps
turtle
thirsty
birdbath
service
furnish
during
every
purple
Miss Swanson
Green Sort 44
Words with Silent Consonants
silent
t
silent
g
silent
w
silent
k
silent
h
silent
gh

castle
design
wrinkle
honest
through
knuckle
bought
whistle
honor
fasten
resign
wrestle
rhyme
listen
thought
often
brought
knowledge
wreckage
soften
rhythm
assign
through
answer

Monday, April 11, 2016

I'm Back!

I am so sorry for the lack of posts the past few weeks. I was out with Strep Throat which went into a type of bronchitis. I am just now feeling like I am starting to be done with it three weeks later. 

Here are the WTW sorts for the week of April 11-18th:

Mrs. Williams
Sort 39
Hard and Soft c and g

Soft c
Hard c
Soft g
Hard g
city
card
giant
gave
cease
guilt
code
gem
gym
golf
goose
cart
guess
cell
cub
germ
guest
cent
calf
guide
gist
circle
center

Mrs. Smith

Green Sort 6
Unusual Past Tense Words

present
past

sleep
slept
keep
slide
shine
freeze
sweep
bleed
throw
know
threw
drew
knew
bled
swept
froze
draw
shone
say
slid
said
drove
kept
drive

Miss  Kelsey

Green Sort 25
r-Influenced o in Accented Syllables

1st
2nd
oddball
morning
before
order
record
shorter
perform
forest
sorry
normal
reward
corner
ashore
forty
report
northern
explore
border
stormy
corncob
chorus
ignore
adore
florist
inform

Miss Swanson

Green Sort 43
Spellings with qu
1st syllable
2nd syllable
qu = /k/
question
equal
antique
frequent
quality
tranquil
squirrel
liquid
racquet
require
squirm
inquire
quaint
technique
sequence
sequel
quiver
conquer
quizzes
banquet
request
squeaky
mosquito
queasy