Spelling Test 4/2/26
Spelling words with singular and plural /f/ to /ves/
knife knives Bonus: before please
life lives
wife wives
half halves
wolf wolves
loaf loaves
elf elves
leaf leaves
thief thieves
shelf shelves
self selves
Ms. Manon's Bio
About Me
The 2025-2026 school year will be my 11th year teaching. I received a Bachelors Degree in Theater from Illinois State University. After working at Universal Studios Creative and EMI Music in Los Angeles, I returned to Chicago where I received my Masters in Education at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
After graduating, I worked at Pritzker Elementary teaching the gifted first grade class for 9 years. I also worked as the Gifted Coordinator for the school. I love teaching novels and writers' workshop as part of a balanced literacy program. This will be my second year teaching at Decatur Classical.
When I am not at work I love competing in trivia nights, watching any Chicago sports team, reading, attending comedy shows and hanging out with my handsome cat, Jake.
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Spelling Test Plural Nouns 3/16
The spelling test will be on Monday. Students will be given the singular word to spell. Then they will add the plural without me reading the list.
woman women
match matches
baby babies
goose geese
child children
story stories
mouse mice
fox foxes
tooth teeth
person people
foot feet
glass glasses
louse lice
night nights
man menChallenge words:
exercise
laugh
Happy Holi!!
Completing a craft for our Holi celebration.
We had such a fun time at the Canines for Kindness presentation. They got to pet the sweet dogs and watch them complete tricks. A few students even got the chance to give Rickie or Bobbie some treats!
Spelling Test - Wednesday 2/25
The list this week contains words ending with the /e/ /l/ and /sh/ /e/ /n/ sounds. The test will be on Wednesday the 25th.
channel addition
scuttle vowel
generation rustle
autumnal subtraction
wobble travel
nation trial
funnel celebration
festival
trickle Bonus Words: important, children, ceremonial
hospital
Health and Safety schedule
Attached is the schedule for Student Health and Safety Lessons.
We were able to enjoy a very special guest performer for Lunar New Year. The students were enthralled by the constantly changing mask.
Lunar New Year celebration.
To celebrate Lunar New Year, we had some special guest parents come in and make a special craft with the students.
During our meeting with 7th grade buddies, Seleni got to meet a very special buddy!
Spelling Words /schwa/
Test will be on Wednesday. The words are spelled with an 'a' or an 'e' to make the schwa shound
Dozen Secure Again Taken Enemy Probably
Deposit Bulletin Ability Company Problem Distance
Debate Sentence Area
Challenge: American
About Challenge: Independent
Elegant Content Word: Glistening
My artistic friend Ralph is making new labels for some of our book bins. He made them for Timmy Failure and The Babysitters Club - our new books donated by very generous parents!
Spelling List for 1/20/26
For this test, students will be required to sort the word into the proper column. These are all words with different ways to spell the /n/ sound.
N
recently
nearby
understand
NN
skinny
flannel
manned
channel
annoy
GN
gnat
design
gnarly
campaign
KN
knotted
knighted
knobby
knowledge
knuckle
BONUS
very
vary
enough
astronomer
- Name
- Elizabeth Manon
- Position
- 2nd Grade