Language Skills

Spelling words this week were tricky!  The words are not so hard, but it can be a challenge to figure out which word one is meaning to spell -- all of this week's words are homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings). Our grammar focus was again on verbs, and students learned to use past time and future time.  We found that it is important for the verb tenses in a piece of writing to be the same (all past tense, for example), and learned to identify and "fix" verbs that are in the wrong tense. We also reviewed correct use of quotation marks, and corrected sentences in which there were punctuation mistakes.