When writing the IEW papers, please remember to encourage complete sentences. All 3-5th graders have a Sentence Jingle glued in their blue spiral notebooks. Second graders will learn it next week. 2nd grade: This second grade group is such a delightful way to begin my day. Thank you everyone for being prepared and ready to learn! Today we covered 4 types of sentences & it only costs a DIME... Declarative Interrogative iMperative Exclamatory I also sent home a packet of 4 types of sentences activities. It would be a great idea to work through them together and then challenge your student to do some of the sorting independently. The flip book of the 4 types of sentences should become a reference guide. As you read out loud or they read independently, encourage them to be on a "hunt" for the different types of sentences. Plickers! Wow, I'm impressed with this class's ability to try new things and have a good attitude about them. On my end, I could gather data quickly as to what topic or type of sentence was harder and what student/s needed more help. I hope they were fun because I plan to use them frequently. Next week we will be reading & writing from our IEW PALS writing book. 3-5th Grade: I unloaded a lot of information to your students today. We learned the 4 types of sentences & the sentence jingle. Please have them practice filling in the 5 parts of a sentence, which is already glued into their spirals. We MAY have a plickers quiz on the 5 parts of a sentence next week. Speaking of Plickers, you should ask your students about them! I used individual a type of QR code per student to gather data and assess how our class is learning new material. It's very efficient and helpful for me. Here's a reminder for any students who didn't get it completed in class. 4 Types of Sentences only cost a DIME. Encourage your 3-5th graders to either give a definition or example of each sentence and record it in their 4 types of sentences flip book. Declarative Interrogatie iMperative Exclamatory Next week the 3 &4th graders need to bring back a Final Polished Copy of The Amazing Ancient World. Please work through lesson 2 in the student book and use the checklist on page 22. The 5th graders need to complete a Final Polished Copy for both The Amazing Ancient World and The Great Flood. If the first week or few weeks need to be done orally by the student and a parent is the scribe, please know that that is more than ok! All students need to complete a Final Polished Copy of their paragraph(s) handwritten first. Typed paragraphs are NOT required, but are permitted. They will turn in their paragraph to my folder for the year. Please have your student cut out and learn the vocabulary cards (green cardstock in the back of the student notebook) for weeks 1 &2. A quiz is likely to occur. If you watch this Shurley English jingle video fast forward to 1:28 and the sentence jingle ends at around 2:08. Comments are closed.
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