It's nice not to have to leave my house in the dark, but I do miss those longer daylight hours! Response logs are due today ( and every day!) as well as the vocabulary from "The Tell-Tale Heart" Students were given the new list of spelling words for the week - test on Thursday - and we looked at capitalization rules for the beginning of sentences, direct quotes and titles - test also on Thursday!

We will be writing a descriptive essay about a person who has had a positive influence. Today we looked at a strong model for the essay and we will begin prewriting in the library tomorrow.

WOW Reflections due tomorrow!!!!

Conferences begin this week, so there will be no school on Friday.

Following are the spelling words for this week:
1. tremendous 11. mediocre
2. doesn't 12. perception
3. collapse 13. irrelevant
4. because 14. perspective
5. believe 15. neutral
6. thoroughly 16. preliminary
7. through 17. naive
8. retrieve 18. perceive
9. glimpse 19. deceitful
10. weird 20. preferable

Challenge words can be added for anyone who wants them. They are:
kaleidoscope
surveillance
inconceivable
preposterous
interpretation

Watch for letter combinations that are hard to keep in order. Remember i before e, except after c or when sounded as "a" like in neighbor and weigh.