Bailey's Big News

Wednesday, March 26th

Students took a Quarter 4 PRE-TEST. 

We are starting a new unit on Thursday - TECHNICAL WRITING!

DOL Review

Today, we worked on more questions for the DOL review.  This week, students received (3) DOL sentences (taken from previous DOLs).  Each day, they have been given different questions. 
A DOL Test will be given on Monday, March 31st.
Students received a STUDY SHEET on Thursday that includes the (3) sentences.  They can use the sheet to rewrite the questions and study.
Download dol_review_sheet.doc

HERE ARE THE DOL sentences:

Sentence 1
Many football fans watched the play-off game on video, since they missed seeing their favorite team at the stadium.

Sentence 2
When Ms. Bailey handed the students their topics, they were excited to know that they had a variety of topics.

Sentence 3
My cousin is happy about visiting our family in Georgia, so we have several exciting places to visit in Atlanta.

Working with Possessive Plurals

Today, student copied 20 MORE spelling words.  These are IRREGULAR PLURALS and should be added to last week's words.  Instead of having a spelling test next Friday, students will have a PLURAL/PLURAL POSSESSIVE TEST.

Today...
Classwork - we completed this sheet.
Download possessive_and_plural_classwork_sheet.doc

HOMEWORK
1.  Finish classwork assignment
2.  Complete POSSESSIVE NOUN sheetDownload possessive_sheet_homework_321.doc

Plural Rules

Rule #1  For MOST nouns, ADD and s
Rule #2  For nouns ending in ch, sh, x, z, s, ADD es
Rule #3  For nouns ending in o, ADD s - there are exceptions to this rule.
Rule #4  For nouns ending in consonant + y, DROP y, ADD ies
    For nouns ending in vowel + y, ADD s
Rule #5  For nouns ending in f, fe, DROP f, fe ADD ves
Rule #6  Many plurals are IRREGULAR and stay the same when singular and plural
Rule #7  Other plurals are IRREGULAR and the ENTIRE words changes.

STAY TUNED for EXAMPLES for these rules.......
Students have MANY examples!

PLURALS

DOL for today, Thursday, March 20th
1. prepositional phrase
2. object of the preposition
3. direct object

We went over the (7) RULES for MAKING PLURALS.
Students were given a NOTE sheet to use during the lesson.
CLASSWORK was also given (from the board) and students practiced forming plurals and plural possessives.

THERE WILL BE NO SPELLING test tomorrow!
The (20) words given this week will be studied as part of our PLURAL unit. 
Students will be given ANOTHER (20) words tomorrow to add to the (20). 
A TOTAL OF 40 PLURAL and PLURAL POSSESSIVES words will be studied for the PLURAL test on Friday, March 28th.

Book Points DUE

Book points have been calculated for quarter 3. 
The DEADLINE was today (extended from Friday, March 14th) and students SHOULD HAVE 18.

PLEASE LOOK OVER A COPY OF THE BOOK POINT information to make sure you are completing BOOK POINTS!
Download 25_book_requirement.doc

Remember....you are reading everyday....get points for what you already read!

REPORT CARDS - Thursday, March 20th

Report cards will be issued to students on Thursday, March 20th!

Please sign your child's report card and return.

Plurals

Today students completed their QTR 3 POST TEST (taken on Tuesday).

We went over some rules for making nouns plural and completed our spelling page from Tuesday.

NO HOMEWORK

Self Assessment

On Monday, March 17th, we took a self-assessment on the research process and our projects.  Students responded to a list of questions about their project and how they felt about the research.

They MUST add a copy of the RESEARCH PAPER, BIBLIOGRAPHY, and OUTLINE.

These items are due THURSDAY, March 20th for CREDIT on the self-assessment!

New Spelling Words

Plural OR Possessive SPELLING WORDS

niece's
nieces'
nieces
country's
countries'
countries
salesman's
salesmen's
its
ours
Mr. Murphy's
Murphys
witness's
witnesses'
witnesses
secretary's
secretaries'
secretaries
theirs
hers