UIL Spelling
3rd and 4th Grade
All practices will be held in Mrs. Enlow's Classroom. Please wait in the cafeteria until Mrs. Enlow picks you up at 3:15! The last two week before our competition, we will have two morning practices in addition to our after school times in order to perfect our strategies
Practice Dates:
November: 2th, 9th, 16th, 30th
December: 7th, 13th (7:30am)
January: 4th, 9th (7:30am), 11th
January 12th--UIL Competition in Whitewright
Practice Week 4 and 5--November 30th and December 7th
The last two weeks we have reviewed the first part of our spelling list. Students have used white boards to give each other mini-tests over words. We have also review prefixes and suffixes and talked about compound words. Please note the remaining practice times for our team and make ever effort to be here (there are a few small changes):
Wednesday, December 13th, 7:30am
Thursday, January 4th, 3:15pm
Tuesday, January 9th, 7:30am
Thursday, January 11th, 3:15pm
Friday, January 12th---COMPETITION DAY! (more details will come home soon)
Homework: Please review ALL words we have done so far and begin studying words 400-500!
Practice Week 3--November 16th
This week we will review prefixes and suffixes again by playing our two games. We will focus on how each word is spelled and talk about which words from our list have prefixes and suffixes.
Homework--Review words 1-300 from the spelling list. When we come back from Thanksgiving break we will have a longer practice test of these words.
Practice Week 2--November 9th
Last week we focused on prefixes and this week we will focus on suffixes. A suffix is added to the end of an existing root word to create a new word. For example, adding "less" to the end of the root word "color" creates the word "colorless." We will play a suffix game and students will bring home a copy of this game to play for extra practice.
Homework--Practice words 201-300 from the spelling list. Play the suffix game with someone to review. Remember to focus on the spelling of each word as you play.
Practice Week 1--November 2nd
Warm-up--Practice Test over words 1-100 from the spelling list! We will also play a spelling game to review these words!
Today, we will focus on adding prefixes to root words. Prefixes are added to the beginning of an existing root word to create a new word. For example: adding "un" to the word "happy" creates the word "unhappy. We will play a prefix board game with partners. Students will also bring a copy of this game home for extra practice!
Homework: Focus on studying words 100-200 from the spelling list. Also, play the prefixes game with someone in your family--remember to focus on the spelling of each word.
Van Alstyne Elementary School
Email: menlow@vanalstyneisd.org
Location: Van Alstyne Elementary School, Newport Drive, Van Alstyne, TX, United States