The First Day of Spring 

Today is officially the first day of spring. I wanted to be prepared for spring so I made sure to put away all of my snow supplies. When it snows I use a snow scraper, shovel and broom to clean off the side walks. I was able to put the salt, ice melter and car brush away. I was so excited to have all the winter supplies until I hard the weather. I watched the weather on channel 2,4 and 10 but unfortunately they all said the same thing. All of the weather channels said that snow was on the way. This means I needed to talk all of those snow supplies out of the garage!

Vocabulary:
supplies: what material you use to get a task done
shovel: used to pick up large amounts of something
broom: used to move things away from the currently location
weather: rain, snow, wind, rain, sun
garage: a place with a car or supplies are stored

Vocabulary Exercise:
Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word

I need to pick up all the __________________ that I am going to use for my science project.

Please put the bag in the ________________ so we can store it till next year

I cant believe that the _____________ for Saturday is rain.

We need the _____________ to move all of this mess off the floor.

Grab the ___________________ so we can pick up all this snow.

Grammar Point: 
Commas can be used to separate a list of items. For example, when I was listing all the weather channels I was watching, I used a comma to separate them.

Grammar Exercise: 

Medieval Times 

     Last night I went to Medieval Times in New Jersey. When you go to Medieval Times you sit down for dinner and watch knights fight in tournaments. When you sit down for dinner you notice right away that nobody has a fork or knife since there was no silverware during the Medieval Times. Each table is assigned a certain color knight to route for. My table cheered on the blue knights. Through the show, the knights road on horses who were decorated that colored cloth to match the knight. The tables around us were celebrating birthdays. I was there to celebrate my friends birthday. The first tournament had to the knights racing back in forth passing the sword to each other. The second tournament had the knights throw the sword at a target to see which knight's sword landed closest to the bulls-eye. The last tournament had each knight choose weapons to fight to the death! These tournaments are acted out by actors therefore it is not a pretend fight. After dinner everyone was able to take pictures with the actors before leaving. I suggest everyone go to Medieval Times. 

Vocabulary:
tournaments: more than one game where people compete in a contest
knights: more than one solider during the Middle Ages
horses: more than one horse
birthdays: more than one celebration of the day someone is born
weapons: more than one device used for defense or attack
actors: people who pretend to play a role

Vocabulary Exercise:
Match each phrase to each pictures below.

1. tournaments                               a. 4 men pretending to be police officers

2. knights                                        b. 4 horses

3. horses                                         c.  2 knives and a sword

4. birthdays                                   d. Jenn and Chris are both born on March 3rd

5. weapons                                    e.   7 middle aged soldiers

6. actors                                         f.    5 races


Grammar Point: Plurals 
In this paragraph I used the plural form for some words. I did this by adding an s to the end of the word. Knight is the singular form but i used knights which is the plural form. Knights is plural since I am now talking about more than one thing. 

Grammar Exercise:
Write 5 words in the singular form. Then take each word and write its plural word form next to it.