I thought it might be helpful for you as parents to know what we do everyday. I will start with an example of our Daily Grams. We do this every morning first thing when we sit down and wait for the school announcements. I feel that the English language needs to be practiced and used so we can understand it better and utilize its tools in our reading and writing. I hope this becomes a weekly update (see below), so you can see what we are working on. This week I have outlined basically what the students will see throughout the week. For example, Mondays assignment will have the following:
- A part of a friendly letter,
- exclamation marks in sentences,
- Sentence Types,
- the use of pronouns, and
- Combining two subjects into a compound subject.
I will explain more about Daily Grams in a later post. For now read through and see if you can practice any of the following:
Daily Grams (Days 28 - 31 - respectively Monday = Day 28, Tuesday = Day 29 and so on).
- Capitalization (part of a friendly note, proper nouns, do not capitalize plants or animals, Titles).
- Punctuation (Exclamations, Initials, Comma after town, Possessive nouns, Abbreviations).
- Parts of Speech and Sentence Structure
- A. Sentence Types (statement, question, command).
- B. Adjectives describe, and they often tell what kind
- C. Prefixes / Roots / Suffixes - Some words are made by adding a prefix before the main word (root). Example: bicycle
- D. Subject of a sentence tells who or what the sentence is about. The verb often shows action.
- More Parts of Speech and Sentence Structure
- A. Pronouns take the place of nouns (Use I as the subject of a sentence).
- B. Nouns (plural nouns, most words add s, however add es to words ending in sh and ch).
- C. Verb has to agree with the subject. A boy rides / ride his bicycle.
- D. Prepositions and how they work in a sentence.
- Sentence Combining (Combining the subject, combine a list, use adjectives to combine).
Thanks,
Mr. Fisher
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