Week #4: Homophones

There are words that sound the same but are spelled differently. These are called homophones. Read each sentence and fill them in with a homophone. The sentences are done in pairs. Each set of two sentences share a homophone. Each is worth .25 = 3 bonus points total.

1. I don't know ______________ I put my shoes when I came home from practice.


2. For the wedding, the bridesmaids are going to _______________ gorgeous violet gowns.


3. To be bold, she dyed her ___________ bright blue.


4. Some people don't call a bunny a rabbit, they call it a __________.


5. If you drink ____________, it can help soothe a sore throat.


6. I don't want to go golfing, because I have to ___________ off at 6A.M.


7. Look over _____________. I think I see a deer in the woods.


8. Stephanie had to watch ____________ dog, because they went on vacation.


9. The only _____________ he will eat is chicken.


10. Let's ______________ for dinner at 7:00P.M. at Hacienda.


11. On their first date, Jen got a beautiful rose _____________ from Felix.


12. Because I did not add the _____________, the cookies did not rise.

Week #3 Answers

1. I

2. Michigan

3.Going

4. German

5. Pixar

6. Sony

7. American

8. YouTube

9. Crayola

10. Uncle

Week #3: Capitalization

Since last week was another open ended week, there are no answers. A shout out goes out to Pirie for her exceptional sentences. She had superb word choice. Thank you to all those who participated this past week. Nicely done!

This week the challenge is to find the word in each sentence that needs to be capitalized. There is only one in each sentence. Each sentence is worth .25 X 10 = 2.5 total.

1. Did you know that i love to listen to music on my iPod?

2. Those michigan peaches are perfectly sweet and ripe.

3. going on vacation to Florida is typical for many people each year.

4. For her birthday she is getting a new german sheperd puppy.

5. Are you planning on going to the new pixar movie this weekend?

6. Their family is going to buy a huge sony TV for their family room.

7. You should put up an american flag on the 4th of July.

8. Over the summer, she watched lots of videos on youtube.

9. From experience, I can attest that crayola crayons are better than Rose Art.

10. My dad and uncle Joe are going fishing this Saturday.

Week #2: Sentence Types

Since last week's challenge was open ended and there were many possible answers, there are no definitive answers to post this week. I commend those who branched out into other languages. I never specified that it had to be English words. Nicely done!

This week is another open ended challenge. There are 4 basic sentence types. Declaratives are statements that end with a period; imperatives are commands and end with periods or exclamation points; interrogatives are questions and end with question marks; and exclamatories are emotional statements and end with exclamation points. Can you write two of each type of sentence? You must label them according to their sentence type and each sentence must contain at least 10 words. The theme of your sentences is SUMMER (what else would it be?) Good luck and I look forward to your creative summer-themed sentences.

WEEK #1: WORD CHALLENGE

I hope your summer vacation is going well already. I am spending the first week learning how to be a better teacher. The days are very long (8-5), and I am looking forward to starting my summer next week. This first week is a word challenge. The words you create must be at least 3 letters in length. Going from A-Z, can you think of a word for each letter that begins and ends with the same letter. How about aqua for the letter "A"? Or river for the letter "R"? You only need one word per letter and they may not be proper words like America for "A." You may do all 26 letters of the alphabet, or you can do as many as you want. You will receive points for however many you can make. You may earn up to 3.9 bonus points (each is worth .15). I look forward to you hearing from you this first week. Good luck!