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Dear Families,

This week students will about a girl named Vashti, who is reluctant artist with little self-confidence. Encouraged to keep trying, Vashti develops faith in herself, and passes on the self-confidence she learned. This week students will read and spell words the long e spelled with ea, as in eat and peach. Students will add inflected endings (-ed, es, er, and -est) to words ending with y.

In writing, students are writing about a memory that each treasures. In grammar, students will learn more about being verbs and will begin to learn about adjectives.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Donaghy

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colorssigncolorsdrawartist experimenting

beachcleandrewgreatgold splash

dreameachovershowsquiggle stared

eacheatsignstraight

seaplease

leantreat

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Skill: The letters ea are a vowel team, two letters coming together in a word. They stand for the long e sound in words such as: eat and peach. Though the letters ea are a common vowel team, they are irregular because one cannot distinguish the spelling of the sound from ee.

Skill: When adding the suffixes -er, -est, -es, and -ed to a word that ends in y, change y to i, and then add the suffix. When adding the suffix -ing to a word that ends in y, do not change y to i. Examples: bumpy, bumpier, bumpiest and carry, carries, carried, carrying.

beachbeadbeambeanbeastbleach

cleancreamDeandreameacheasel

easyeatfeastgleamgleanheat

Jeanleanedleavesmealsmeatneat

peacepeachpeakpeasreachread

screamscreamedseasneakspeaksqueal

streamstreamingteachteamteasewheat

bumpybumpierbumpiestflyflies

creamycreamiercreamiest carrycarriescarried

easyeasiereasiestcrycriescried

foggyfoggierfoggiestdrydriesdried

funnyfunnierfunniesthurryhurrieshurried

jolly jollierjolliestspyspiesspied

happyhappierhappieststudystudiesstudied

luckyluckierluckiesttrytriestried

sillysilliersilliestworryworriesworried

Sentences:

1. Our team will eat hot dogs at the beach.2. Please clean each one.

3. Jean painted the colors on the sign.4. She hurried to eat her lunch.

5. Please try to be happier.6. The baby cried for a treat.

7. It is sunnier by the sea.8. The team studies together each day.

9. Creamy ice cream is a taste treat.10. I read each and every story.

11. Don't lean over too far.12. Fay copied the letters to make a neat sign.

13. Sal dried the leaf with the yellow color.14. Peg tried to draw a farm with a wheat field.

15. Show me the easiest way to the beach.16. We hurried, so the meal was over fast.

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