MANGO MANIA Mango Mania starts the week of November 23-27.  The goal is for students to have no more than 1 hour of screen time (TV, video games ) after school during this week.  Thursday's Show and Tell This weeks students are: Ashlee Kaelyn Hunter Alea Book orders are due on Thursday! Books orders are due on November 19, 2009.  Thank you! THE SH SOUND Consonant Digraphs: are two consonants together that say one sound.  Today our class looked at words with the sh sound ie. shout, ship, push, dish.  When your child reads to you, have them look for words that begin and end with sh.  Next week we will be reviewing the th sound (we like to call it the rude sound). SPELLING WORDS (test on Thursday) bump, dump, jump, pump, stump We are working on the ump word family this week.  These words also have the short u sound.    SHORT U Students will learn some tricks to help them with the short u sounds: 1.  When a word or syllable has only one vowel and it comes at the beginning of a word, that vowel makes a sound that is called "short"  ex.  umbrella, under, up, us   2.  When a word or syllable has only one vowel and it is between two consonants, the vowel makes a sound that is called "short" ex. dug, rug, duck, skunk   ** Please check out the web link for some fun interactive games