Week of October 11, 2010

Hope everyone had a great break - it definitely came at the perfect time! For this week's grammar lesson we'll be taking a look at the roles of independent and dependent clauses and using them in a variety of ways. We will also be drafting a Halloween writing piece in which students get to choose what activity they'd rather participate: finding their way through a corn maze or haunted house...our spelling lesson # 11 backs up to vowel-consonant-vowel patterns for review. ***PLEASE NOTE: we will be having another Daily Proofreading checkpoint on Friday, October 15, so I'll be reminding students that all DP entries (#s 37-47) should be organized for an easy participation grade.***