OCTOBER FAMILY PROBLEM

The month of October is best known for its celebration of Halloween. Take a picture of a person in a Halloween costume (these can be real family photographs, pictures from a catalog, or online). Describe the costume from head to toe, being extremely descriptive. Add similes, metaphors, and Warehouse words.
Avoid the generic descriptions: He has a red nose, colorful hair, and big shoes.
Instead: His nose was as red as a ripe red delicious apple. His colorful hair was like a rainbow on his head, and his shoes were enormous. These are due by Friday, October 28th. You must have a picture and a description. Up to 4 bonus points or House points will be rewarded for this activity.

OCTOBER NEWSLETTER

6TH GRADE
GRAMMAR
*At the beginning of the month, each student had to memorize at least 40 prepositions.
*Memorizing the 40 prepositions will be extremely helpful as we are working on Chapter 20 which focuses on prepositional phrases.
*There will be workbook pages, practice worksheets, quizzes, and a quest at the end of the chapter.
WRITING
*We are finishing up on our South Bend person paragraph. These will be attached to our Art boxes that we made for Hacienda night.
*We will be writing prayers for our class prayer book.
DIAGRAMMING
*We have already learned subjects, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and compound subjects and verbs.
*We will be learning how to diagram prepositional phrases.
7th GRADE
GRAMMAR
*We are still working through Chapter 26 focusing on punctuation.
*We are doing workbook pages, practice activities, quizzes, and will have another quest over the second half of this chapter.
WRITING
*In line with the study of punctuation, we are writing group dialogues. These will be presented in class.
*We are continuing are study of advertising techniques. We will then use that knowledge to write an ad for a new toy.
DIAGRAMMING
*We just finished diagramming compound subjects and verbs.
*We will be diagramming compound adjectives and adverbs.
8TH GRADE
GRAMMAR
*We are working on Chapter 16 studying adjectives and adverbs.
*We have been doing workbook pages, practice activities, quizzes, and a quest will occur at the end of the unit.
WRITING
*We are working on letters to ourselves that will be mailed out in four years.
DIAGRAMMING
*We are working on diagramming direct and indirect objects.