More Pronouns and Cross out the Sentence that Doesn't Belong!

Today, students in Mr. Polk's classes are beginning to understand what a wonderful tool the "Polkinator" blog will be for their language arts and science classes. I am making it a goal to utilize the blog each day. I use it in the class to review previous day's material and homework, and to discuss what we will be doing the current day. I also use it to show educational videos the students will learn from and enjoy.

Yesterday, we discussed interrogative pronouns. The interrogative pronouns are who, which, whose, and what.

Example 1) __________ books are on the floor?

Out of the four choices above, whose is the correct answer. You cannot say who because it is singular and the question is asking a group of people. Which in this sentence would not be grammatically correct, and what is the answer for another question. Also, it is important to note that you should not write the answer as who's. Who's literally means "who is" and the sentence "Who is books are on the floor" does not make sense.

The students are doing grammar bell ringers each day for participation. They must correct their answers in class to get the participation points. They also get Polk Pride tickets for volunteering at the Promethean board.

In writing, we continued looking at the components of a paragraph. Their homework from the Tuesday night was to read a paragraph and underline the correct topic sentence. They also need to remember the difference between a topic sentence and the main idea of a paragraph. The main idea is only a phrase, not a sentence. Their homework for Wednesday night was to complete a three page packet. In the packet, they were to cross out the sentence that did not belong with the rest of the paragraph.

Until next time!

~Mr. Polk