Feb 8 2013 - TOC Notes

1. Check the following students yellow outlines for parent signatures; Jerry, Dawson, Simon, Spencer, Karlee.

2. Take in Letters of Introduction (Drafts and Good Copies). The final due date is today. Some students have already handed these in to the top left hand shelf under the screen at the front of the room.

3. Pop Quiz -  These are on the teacher's desk. 

4. Silent reading of novels students selected yesterday - 15 minutes.

5. Review the Word of the Day by going to this LINK. 

Have students write this info down underneath yesterday's word of the day in their 'Vocab/Word of the Day' tab/section. 

6.  Review The Little Four - Parts of Speech below.
Students already have copies of this information in their binders.

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The Little Four

1.  Pronoun: a word used in place of a noun or another pronoun.

Examples: she, we, yourself, nobody, who, everybody

“Just be yourself,” she said. “We want you to feel at home.”

2.  Preposition: a word that shows how a noun or pronoun is related to some other word in the sentence. Many prepositions indicate direction, position, or relation to time.

Examples: across, at, of, until, in, about, from,

Across the creek at the edge of the field stood a deer.

3.  Conjunction: a word that connects words or groups of words.

Examples: and, or, but, so, yet, because, if

People of ancient Egypt, Central America, and South America all built pyramids, but they developed the pyramid idea independently.

4.  Interjection: a word or group of words that show feeling or sudden emotion. An interjection can stand by itself.

Examples: wow, hey, my, word, oh, well

Hey! That was a shooting star!

7. Show students the following videos as review.

Pronouns

Preposition

Conjunction

Interjection 

8. Have students go into their same groups from yesterday & assign each group one of the Little Four Parts of Speech. Each group is to create 3 sentences using their assigned part of speech & underline it.

A group leader will present their sheet to the class once complete. 

*You can use the backsides of the large sheets of paper on the large table at the front of the room as yesterday the groups reviewed the Big Four - Parts of Speech.  Ms. Mackenzie will be in the room to aid you with this as well. 

9. End of class game or short video clip - up to you :)

Thanks again. 

Ms. H