Wednesday, September 21

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK (DUE THURSDAY): SPELLING WORKSHEET PP.10-11 (WRITING SECTION ON BACK IS BONUS)


Good afternoon Lodge parents and families,

Today we continued our substantial language arts unit that encompasses narrative writing, which is a type of non-fiction writing (Indiana DOE Standard 4.5.1). Yesterday, students listened to me read an example of narrative writing, entitled "Under the Sea." We discussed the writer's purpose of the narrative, and students were able to understand that the purpose was to discuss their amazing scuba diving experience.

In today's lesson, I displayed a graphic organizer onto the Promethean Board and the students copied this into their Language Arts notebook. They discussed and wrote about what they thought was meaningful in the narrative, what vivid details the author used, what they thought was interesting, and explained whether or not they thought the writer stayed focused in their writing. I discussed the importance of staying on topic when writing a major paper. Students will be using this graphic organizer to help generate ideas for a personal narrative that they will write. This will be the first major paper of the school year.

Please encourage the students' writing at home. We have been working diligently by looking at narrative examples, and we have created individual narratives through writing prompts and selected topics. They appear to be enjoying the writing process thus far.

For grammar, we progressed with our learning of the verb skill (Indiana DOE Standard 4.6.3 and 4.6.4). Today, we discovered new ways to say the word "said." We use the word "said" redundantly, especially when using dialogue. For example, instead of saying, "Bobby!! It's time to wake up!" said mother, we could say, "Bobby!! It's time to wake up!" shouted mother.

Students had Spelling homework tonight. See the homework assignment at the beginning and the end of this post. The Spelling test will be on Friday. Have a great evening!

~Mr. Polk

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK (DUE THURSDAY): SPELLING WORKSHEET PP.10-11 (WRITING SECTION ON BACK IS BONUS)