We started today's class with something we will now be doing every Monday, Sentence of the Week. Three sentences are presented to students. After writing them in their notebook students have to analyze the sentences and try to discover what the new grammar rule is, or what all of the sentences have in common. What that may be is the rule for writing that we will be focusing on that week. Homework for Tuesday will then be to replicate the rule discussed in class by writing their own three sentences. So the sentences should be different than the ones we worked on in class but they should be following the new rule discussed in class. So as an example the rules we learned in class today are that every sentence starts with a capital letter and that every sentence ends with some sort of punctuation. So our first sentence in class was....
- I went to school today.
So your new sentence could be....
- I love ice cream.
Easy, right?
We will practice working on this skill in class throughout the week and then will have a quiz on it on Friday. You can use your notes on the quiz so take good notes!
After sentence of the week, we worked on creating sight card flashcards. On Friday, we read aloud commonly used words and students had to write them down as they believed they are spelled. Today, we gave the lists back and had kids re-write all of the words they spelled incorrectly into their sight words list. This list will be used to help everyone read, spell, and recognize these commonly used words that they may not yet know. We also put up a list of 100 words every 6th grader should know and added some of those to the list. We'll work through that list throughout the year. We'll practice these words a little bit everyday and you'll be a pro before you know it!
Don't forget to complete your three sentences for tomorrow! Have a great night!
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