February 6The spelling words for this week are words that have the long i sound. The words are: smile white wide while bite hideToday, for the first time, the class took a pretest in spelling. I explained the long i rule and then told them that they should try their best to sound out the words. I told them that I would not even look at this work - that it was simply to help them know the words that they needed to study extra hard and which ones they could figure out on their own. High frequency words for the week are: old grow