Public School 268

2012 has finally arrived and with the New Year comes a promise of new beginnings.  We make promises to ourselves that this New Year will be better.  We call these promises to ourselves resolutions where we resolve to change aspects about ourselves to make us better people.  I know each year I make a resolution to lose some weight, some years I have been successful with it and some years I have broken the resolution within the first week.

What New Years resolutions have you made?  Will you be successful?  Why are you making this New Year’s resolution?  How can your family help you keep your New Year’s resolution?  Use the comment area below to tell us about your resolutions and Happy 2012 no matter how you do on your resolutions.

As part of our fifth grade writing curriculum, we will be learning to use writing techniques to write an organized logical paragraph when “Writing to Inform.”

Today we will learn to use writing techniques to write an organized logical paragraph by using the secret “Power Writing” formula.

First Choose a topic sentence with a specific or general number word

I like teaching for several reasons  or I like teaching for three reason.

In the rest of the paragraph make a sentence for each reason.  Use signal words like

first,  besides,   again, second,  lastly,   also, third,  finally,  and, likewise,  some,  more, next,  others,  then, another,  furthermore,  even more, to begin, with, in addition to

Example: I like teaching for several reasons.  First, I enjoy working with children.  Second, I love to teach math and social studies.  Lastly, I enjoy teaching because of all the vacations.  These are the reasons why I like to teach.

You try it now.