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February 07, 2008

Thurs., Feb. 7th

DOL
1.  Independent clause
2.  Dependent clause
3.  Prepositional phrase

There is NO DOL quiz tomorrow.  Tomorrow, students will take the spelling test.  See words on BLOG, Jan. 29th.

Today Ms. Bailey introduced the RESEARCH unit.  Students discussed what they knew about research.

HOMEWORK - study for spelling test and hand in DOL

February 06, 2008

Wednesday, Feb. 6th

DOL
1. compound subject
2. predicate
3. type of sentence
4. direct object

Today the class took the capitalization test.

HOMEWORK
(2) spelling sheets from Spelling book, pages 50,51

February 05, 2008

Monday/Tuesday Feb 4th and Feb 5th

This week's DOL:
Mrs. Baker and her students reviewed the Discovery Magazine to learn more about Rwandan animals, Kenyan culture, and Democratic governments.
Today's DOL - parts of speech for each word

Students have been working on presenting CAPITALIZATION lessons in class.

The Capitalization Notes that were handed out last week (see attached), were filled out as students presented lessons.  Students are responsible for completing the notes and including definitions and examples. Download capitalization_notes.doc

Ms. Bailey presented a PPT OVERVIEW, reviewing ALL 16 capitalization rules today (see attached PowerPoint).Download capitalization_rules.ppt

PLEASE be sure to UPDATE your capitalization notes.  Students can ONLY use their notes for the test.

HOMEWORK
Capitalization sheet #2
Study your notes for the TEST
Test tomorrow (see PPT notes)