Dear Word Watchers,

It was great seeing your parents and families last night. They left with flashcards full of prefixes and suffixes for you to practice each night, so you become better readers and writers.

The English language is full of funny words, weird words, and words that don’t follow rules, but like all languages, it’s also full of patterns. We talk in math a lot about looking for patterns, but the same thing is true in language. More important than learning definitions of words is for you to learn how words relate to each other.  Then, you’ll start to see how easy it is to change words slightly to create new meanings and be more precise with the language that you use.

Play slide tic-tac-toe or Yut with a partner.

Let’s have a great day,

Mr. Heimbuck