Today’s primary lesson centered around using available resources. Many of the students did not get all of their points on the daily language workout sentences from last week or the review paragraph we did in class today even though the correct answers were available in the flip charts or the text books. Every grammar rule demonstrated in the daily sentences and the weekly paragraphs are basic rules and can be found in the resources provided for the student’s use. One of the sentences last week ask the student to decide whether the word south when used as a direction should be capitalized. I pointed out that the correct rule could be found on the yellow flip chart under #44. Still when the same error appeared in today’s paragraph review, several students didn’t bother to get up and look up the rule. We will keep working on these basic grammar rules and points will be lost if students do not use the tools provided for them.

Today’s DLW sentence is:

greenland, the most large island in the world, administered by denmark.

The errors can be found in the form of a Sentence Fragment, Capitalization, and an Adjective (Comparative/Superlative) problem.

The root words we covered today were:

Dict – speak, say (dictate, contradict, dialect)
Contra, Counter – against, opposite (contradict, counterfeit, counterclockwise)

We reviewed through Chapter 7 of Treasure Island and checked study guides. We also looked at our reading toolkits and have a prediction worksheet to do as homework. Crews also received 5 points for every boxtop they had in their treasure chests today. Way to go crews! Lots of booty going down in those ledgers.

Tomorrow is a Writing Workshop day and everyone needs to have their Anchor Piece with 20 highlighted words to work on.

Oh, I almost forgot, anyone still not putting the correctly formatted header on their assignments has to write their header 50 times and turn them into Mrs. Scales. What a waste of time. I mean really, wouldn’t it be a lot easier to check the header before turning in your paper than having to write the same old thing 50 times.