Quotable Quotes

Here's a fantastic link for anyone who wants to study for the gigantic states and capitals test, which I have moved to next Friday instead of next Wednesday. So it's now on Friday, October 16.

The kids tonight also need to write a persuasive paragraph. They will have their WriteSource 2000 books with them to help them with these. We discussed this heavily in class today, and they have two topics that they are not allowed to write about. The first is that they can't make the topic "less homework," (every kid's fallback), and they can't do "Can I get a pet?" because that was our topic of discussion today. They need to back up their stances with facts and not emotion.

Also, we talked about quotation marks and the proper way to use them. They are to write ten sentences using quotation marks properly. These also play into tonight's DOL, which has a whopping fifty-three mistakes at least. Sorry, tomorrow's has far fewer, I assure you. It's a little one.

In Social Studies, they have to fill in two boxes on page 17 in their white workbook (they should have at least five things in each box) after reading pages 32 and 33 in their hardback book.

In Math, the kids are just getting their Sunshine Math for the week. Normally I will give these out on Monday, but this week they're getting them on Tuesday. Sorry about that!

They have been given nearly a half hour of work time to work on these at school, plus about fifteen to twenty minutes to do that monster DOL (I gave a lot of help on that one).

If you didn't send in your permission slip for the symphony tomorrow, get it in tomorrow, or your child will have to stay here and do...something. Probably work for Mrs. Smith in the office. Nobody wants to miss the symphony! And thank you for sending in your Camp Tecumseh forms--that also told me that there are more people who read this blog daily than I realized. Makes it feel worthwhile.

Whew! Big one!