SEPTEMBER FAMILY PROBLEM

With this activity, you may earn up to 4 bonus points for language arts or 4 House points. Since it is a family problem, only one needs to be submitted per family and not separately for each child.
The Problem: Although summer vacation may be over, it's always time to think about future summer vacations. Imagine you are able to plan any summer vacation you want regardless of money, what would be the ideal vacation for each member of your family? You may write a dream vacation for the entire family to share, or write what each member of the family believes would be the best summer vacation. Complete sentences are expected. You may include a picture or pictures for an additional bonus/House point. This family problem is due by Friday, September 30th.

SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER

WEEKLY AND DAILY REGULAR ACTIVITIES FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR

1. DOG (Daily Oral Grammar): This activity practices the skill of editing writing with proper proofreading marks. It meets many of the state standards for the sixth standard covering language conventions.
2. GRAMMAR MINUTE: This activity practices the parts of speech, as well as capitalization and punctuation.

3. DIAGRAMMING: This activity practices breaking down sentences into their individual parts of speech. After a week of practice, there is a quest covering the skill learned that week. (standard 7.6.4)
4. DQ (Daily Questions): Each day the students answer brief questions covering grammar, writing, sentence writing, and handwriting.
5. 6+1 EVALUATION: This activity involves the students evaluating a piece of writing for the 6+1 Traits. They also work to improve many pieces as well. (standard 4 covering evaluation and revision)
6. JOURNALS: In order to prepare for larger pieces of writing, we write three minute journals to brainstorm ideas for a future rough draft and final draft. (standard 4 covering organization and focus of writing)
7. WEEKLY REMINDERS: Each week the students take a note about a frequent error in writing. These are gathered and at the end of the trimester there will be a quest. (covering standard 4 on evaluation and revision as well as standard 6 on language conventions)

6th GRADE
GRAMMAR:
*This month we'll cover Chapter 27 on capitalization. There will be many workbook pages, worksheets, quizzes, and a test at the end of the chapter. (standard 6.6.4)
WRITING:
*We will partnering with art to write a research paragraph about a person in Indiana history. By doing this paragraph, we will be learning how to cite sources in a works cited. (standard 6.5.3)
*We will also be creating a Coat of Arms and composing a paragraph for one section of the Coat examining the section answer more closely. (standard 6.5.2)

7th GRADE
GRAMMAR:
*This month we'll cover Chapter 26 on punctuation. There will be many workbook pages, worksheets, quizzes, and a test at the end of the chapter. (standard 7.6.6 and 7.6.7)
WRITING:
*We will be working on a persuasive paragraph advertising for a new technologically advanced toy. (standard 7.5.4)

8th GRADE
GRAMMAR:
*This month we will be working on Chapter 20 covering simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentence types. Depending on how easily this material is understood, we may move onto phrases which is another section of the same chapter. (standard 8.6.1 and 8.6.3)
WRITING:
*We will be writing a letter to our future selves. We will address the envelopes, and then in four years, I will mail them out to the students so they can reflect on what their thoughts for their futures were from 2011. (standard 8.5.1 and 8.5.7)