Our Grade 6 Provincial Writing Test is on Thursday, May 12, 9:00 - 11:00, with an optional 30 minutes. Please study the narrative text structure and the paragraph criteria posted in D2L under Content.  Today we introduced the text structure for composing newspaper articles.  Share with a member of your family what information you included in your article today about our Rothney Astrophysical Observatory field trip.  Did you include the 5 W's in your first paragraph.  Which important details did you select for your second paragraph.  How many quotes did you add?  Which detail closed your article?

Homework:
Continue to work on your accuracy in punctuation by practicing on the following websites:
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/punctuation
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/6_8/grammar/

Reminder:
Our health lessons begin next week, May 16, 2016.