Challenging Plurals

Our Spelling patterns this week is all about Challenging Plurals. Basically, we are studying the words that do not follow the rules of "just add -s" when there is more than one. This was our notes.

 We want students to be successful. We want students to be independent. So we started the assignment together. We did four examples. Our steps:
1.) Read the word and identify the base word or start of the word
2.) Look at the second column. Find the word that has a similar base.
3.) Rewrite the word neatly and cross out the word in the second column
4.) Compare the base word and the plural. Find out the rule.
5.) Record it in the chart below. Spell it correctly.

 Then we did the backside together. Our steps:
1.) Look at the note sheet for an example.
2.) Look at the front side, is the example there?
3.) Use a dictionary.

Students had SEVEN examples on the front side to complete for homework. It was fun to see students working on it in class. They looked confident.

Students are encouraged to STUDY extra hard this week. Our words are:
pianos, vertebrae, videos, formulas, tomatoes, indexes, algae, octopuses