Hi! Sorry for not posting yesterday. We had a busy day, to say the least!
We reviewed many more state capitals, got new SAT and Root Word packets, and Mrs. Greer started teaching her Language Arts class.
Our new spelling activity is to be creative and set our spelling words to a Christmas tune, which can be performed individually, in a group, or collectively on Thursday and Friday. We have been laughing at the emerging results. Some patterns are like tongue twisters!
We continue expository writing with 3-point paragraphs about Favorite Places. We should finish writing them tomorrow, edit them together on Thursday, and students will type and illustrate them to be handed in next week. THE YELLOW -POINT PARAGRAPH ABOUT FAVORITE FOODS IS DUE TOMORROW. PLEASE REFER TO THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29TH BLOG POST FOR THE EXACT SPECIFICATIONS OF THE ASSIGNMENT.
In grammar, we have moved on to classifying prepositional phrases. We continue to review capitalization and punctuation rules, and tomorrow we will begin parts of a letter.
Johnny Tremain is a long book! But key reasons for reading it are that it complements so well the American Revolution focus of our history theme, the vocabulary is so rich, the story is complex - yet understandable, and students feel such a sense of pride in completing such an advanced and refined piece of literature. It is a Newbery Award book. TONIGHT'S READING IS THROUGH PAGE 181.
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