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Tonight your student will be finishing their body paragraphs in their argumentative essay. In class we already did the research, introduction sentence, and text evidence sentence. Your child's homework is to finish up the Explain and Expand the Evidence and the Conclusion Sentence for all 3 body paragraphs. Here is some examples and ideas.

Explain and Expand the Evidence:

Elaborate in your own words why the text evidence supports your argument. (2-3 sentences)

After you introduce evidence into your writing, you must say why and how this evidence supports your argument. In other words, you have to explain the significance of the evidence and its function in your paper.

As writers, we sometimes assume that our readers already know what we are talking about; we may be wary of elaborating too much because we think the point is obvious. But readers can’t read our minds: although they may be familiar with many of the ideas we are discussing, they don’t know what we are trying to do with those ideas unless we indicate it through explanations, organization, transitions, and so forth. Try to spell out the connections that you were making in your mind when you chose your evidence.

Here are some questions you can ask yourself about each text evidence. Answering them may help you explain how your evidence is related to your overall argument:

1. O.k., I’ve just stated this point, but so what? Why is it interesting? Why should anyone care?

2. What does this information imply?

3. What are the consequences of thinking this way or looking at a problem this way?

4. I’ve just described what something is like or how I see it, but why is it like that?

5. I’ve just said that something happens-so how does it happen? How does it come to be the way it is?

6. Why is this information important? Why does it matter?

7. How is this idea related to my main idea? What connections exist between them? Does it support my main idea? If so, how does it do that?

8. Can I give an example to illustrate this point?

Conclusion Sentence: 

End each paragraph with a concluding sentence that summarizes or restates the main idea that is expressed in the topic sentence. A concluding sentence pulls together or summarizes the main idea of the paragraph, usually in a single sentence. The concluding sentence also provides a definite ending point for the paragraph.

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Good Evening Everyone,

I am still out sick, but I wanted to make sure that the class still stays in the loop on things.

1. Tomorrow is Jump Rope for Heart. Please bring in all money fundraised and give to Mr. Sanchez. I bought oranges and water tonight for the students to eat and drink while attending Jump Rope for Heart from 120-210. Volunteers are more than welcome to come and help out, please make sure you sign into the office first.
2. Tomorrow is also our 100th day of school! Yea!
3. Tomorrow is Spirit Day, which means that we encourage all students to wear pink, purple, or white in honor of Valentine's Day.
4. Reading Log and Response to Reading is due tomorrow. I will try and get someone to drive me to school so I can check these things off this weekend, please make sure your child turns these things in.
5. The class will be having their Valentine's Day party tomorrow from 210-3. I left their Valentine's Day presents on their desks. 

If you need me I am available by email. I hope everything is going OK with the kids at home with their homework. I have been interested to know how their math is going. 

Have a good night!

Thursday, February 13

This Thursday is going to be a VERY busy day for us. We will have a little Valentine's Day Party for ourselves, it is Spirit Day (wear red or pink),  Jump Rope for Heart, and it is the 100th day of school!

Jump Rope for Heart is going to be in the afternoon for us, so we will probably have our Valentine's Day Party after recess, 10:50-12:30. Parents are more than welcome to join us, the class and I decided to have a low key party since they were going to be exercising so much in the afternoon.

Here is a class list of student's names for you and your child just in case you're planning on passing out any cards.

1. Connor Bast
2. Dyllon Bentsen
3. Bryson Berens
4. Abby Burghart
5. Ashton Callan
6. Thomas Cashman
7. Isaac Culkin
8. Konnor Dodson
9. Amaya Gomez
10. Madison Hall
11. Jarrett Hartwig
12. Abigail Isgrigg
13. Dylan Jennings
14. Ryder Leggitt
15. Trenton Lindquist
16. Analicia Lutz
17. Caterina Lybarger
18. Alexis McDaniel
19. Tyler McNeil
20. Blake Miller
21. Gavin Miller
22. Carson Rossi
23. Ian Sarff
24. Omar Sayed
25. Grant Sexton
26. Lucas Sidney
27. Brandy Taylor
28. Kaden Westbrook

A message I received about Saturday

This Saturday is Lakeview's 4th annual bike rodeo - and as of today i have 98 pre-registered kids - which is the most we have ever had!!

 

We need lots of volunteer   ****  So Far we have 9 stations***

 

helmet fit 3-4 volunteers

bike check, (performace Bike will help us with this one)

zig-zag 2 volunteer

slow race 2-3 volunteer

figure 8 - 2 volunteer

stop on a dime, 2 volkunteers

paper boy, 3-4 volunteer

balance beam  2- volunteers

and demon driveway - 3-4 volunteer

registration 3 volunteer (Ms. Dingle is one of the 3)

volunteer check in 2 volunteers

tattoos - 2 volunteers 

face painting (we just had our face painter cancel - so if you know anyone - or if you can face paint please let me know!!!),

I-Drive 25 table - one volunteer

Tshirst - susan Burgheart

parking lot/gate guard - 1 volunteer

vender point of contact - 1 volunteer

Raffle and awards - 4-5

 

Clean-up -- the more the merrier!

 

We need voluntters to help set up friday 2/7 after school on the upper playground - from 3:30 - 5:30 (as daylight permits)

 

If you can volunteer to run one of the stations above or can help set up ----- please be at the school on sat 2/8 at 9am - to help set up the station and get instructions on how it should be run.

 

The stations will be open from 10am-2pm (with a break from 1-1:30 to do the raffle.

 

Please let me know what station I can sign you up for!! I'm hoping to have enough people so that each person only has to work 2 hours!!

Please email me to let me know if you can help out for any amount of time.