Quotation marks

Hello,

We did a little quotation mark lesson today.  Some children ended up with quotation marks on their face.  That way everything they said would be surrounded by quotation marks.  I owe a few more quotation marks to the one table that I didn't get to.  It was Halloween face paint and it was optional.  Everyone was opting for them, but they had to show me a dialogue that they had written first.  They did pretty well in getting the spoken words in quotes, but need a lot more work on the other punctuation that goes with it, as well as the new speaker - new paragraph rule. 

The teachers had a meeting to address concerns with the superintendent after school.  We got to write ideas, worries, questions and positives on post-it notes and place them on poster board.  It wasn't the open forum that some were expecting.  We're hoping that he gets back to us relatively soon.

I have a letter for you that explains the new report card.  I'm glad that we will have a conference time to talk about it.  I'm hoping we can spend more time talking about your child than the report card. 

Students should be starting new chapter books.  Everyone has come to me and shown me the next book that they will be tackling.  Everyone will get individual assignments to complete each night.  They should be starting the book tonight, so they can begin to answer some questions tomorrow night. 

Spelling test tomorrow.  I only gave everyone five words due to the short week, and due to the fact that it takes two hours to correct a spelling test.  Wow, we need to study our words a little more.  Five words should be a piece of cake.

Have a great night.  Remember no school on Friday. 

Mr. Shea