There will be no new spelling words this week.  Students can continue to practice their words from last week.  Due to the storm day on Friday, they will write their spelling test on Friday, February 5th.

For the month of January the students worked hard on the Conventions Trait in the 6+1 Traits of Writing.  Today we talked about what our world would be like without periods.  Here is what they thought about what would happen if our stories had no periods:   Lushula – You would be tired.  You would loose your breath. Keisha – We will keep on going and going and going. Drew – We would never catch our breath because you’d never stop reading.  It would be hard. Skylar – You wouldn’t breathe. Gillian – I wouldn’t want to read again because it would be hard. Braydan – We wouldn’t be able to breathe. Evan – I wouldn’t like stories because you wouldn’t have breath anymore and you will be tired.  Cameron – It would not be so great because you would not be able to catch your breath. Jaden – I think if periods didn’t exist our reading would sound like this – There was a boy named Tim he was shoveling he found a gem.  Hunter – We will run out of breath. Megan – I would be very out of breath. Mia – We will read the book without stopping.