Some announcements for this week.

• Pumpkin walk's theme is "The Grave Yard." We will have our pumpkins right outside my window. So get those pumpkins ready for Thursday night.
• Reflections are due November 9th.
• And RED RIBBON Week is a big success.

Dictionary for Third Grade

Last week Brigham City Rotary Club graciously donated a Dictionary to each of the third graders at our school. We would like to thank them for their generosity.

And now for a story, I received a similar dictionary from when I was in Elementary school. The thing that I tell the students is that this sits right next to my computer. Why would I do that when there is a spell checker and the internet? Habit, the authentic feel, or (and I emphasize this point), because a dictionary is faster than a computer. Why? Because I know how to use it.  I love showing the comparison to the students, it is beat-up and is actually falling apart in the middle, and it's mine!

Spelling with /ch/ sound

The spelling words for this week use the /ch/ sound.  Normally "ch" by itself has three sounds, we can isolate this sound this week but even the students have learned that "ch" can say /ch/, /k/, and /sh/ as in the words much, school, and chef respectively. This weeks' list shows two different ways to spell the /ch/ sound, the first is of course "ch," the second is a common spelling found in the "tch" spelling.  The t sneaks itself into the sound, and we say /ch/ as in the word catch.  This makes it fun, and yes, you might have to do some extra practicing to know when to use ch and when to use tch. The one thing that might help is that the "tch" is usually the ch sound found at the end of a word, but be careful words like bench and crunch do not use the "tch."

Here are the words (Sorry for the delay):  Don't forget I have the spelling words also posted at SpellingCity.com.
Our Planner:

chick much pitch teacher chum lunch ditch cheek hatch cheese

bench chunk stretch watching crunching weak green seal catcher sandwich