Blog #6 - Ms. Tornincaso



My boyfriends Jeep at Democrate
Point Beach.

 Summer is my favorite time of year.  No surprise there.  Summer time is a favorite for a lot of people.  But, especially for people on long island.  During the summer there are so many exciting places to go and things to do.  For starters, on memorial day weekend there is an air show over jones beach where the united states navy's blue angels fly overhead doing amazing maneuvers.  Me and my family take our boat to zach's bay and watch the show every year.  It is always a fun day.  We also spend many weekends at tobay on our boat with friends and family.  Sleeping on the boat over night is such a relaxing and enjoyable experience.  My favorite part about the summer though, is going to the beach.  A lot of the time I will frequent tobay beach or cedar beach with my friends.  But the most amazing beaching experience I ever had was going to sore thumb beach or democrat point beach with my boyfriend.  At these beaches you can obtain a permit to drive onto the beaches with a truck.  People stay all day with their chairs set up behind their cars, cooking food and playing music.  We stay all day long.  It's my favorite place to be.  I can not wait for the summer time on long island!

Vocabulary:

memorial day (noun) - a day to remember those who died in wars

blue angels (noun) - the United States Navy's flight demonstration team

maneuvers (noun) - a movement or series of movements that take a lot of skill to perform

frequent (verb) - often

obtain (verb) - to get or acquire

permit (noun) - a document giving permission to do something


Vocabulary Activity:

Y K Z B B D V M G S S U Q P Z 
E A Y U H I K P R C L F D E P 
W Z D W P U O E G L E F P R N 
V Y D L U G V D I E G N I M E 
O V E O A U X K L D N K P I F 
D B V D E I J Q S V A M T T A 
C O T N L F R E Q U E N T R K 
B Y A A G I I O D Z U R D M U 
T M M V I Y E T M W L R P W L 
C Z D S L N X V O E B N F K L 
K A S M L R U P J F M K D V C 
K N Z Z U I Q Y O Q H S H I P 
P K D F C I J N D G L B P V D 
W S H Q D D U G F Z X Z Y I P 
V V T G O A G V W C J T M H R 

BLUE ANGELS
FREQUENT
MANEUVERS
MEMORIAL DAY
OBTAIN
PERMIT

Grammar point:  The passage above has many proper nouns mentioned in it.  A proper noun is a noun that is important and should be capitalized, such as names, places, months, days of the week, holidays, titles, cities, countries, states, etc.

Grammar activity:  The passage above has many proper nouns mentioned in it, however, they are not capitalized.  Find the proper nouns within the passage and correctly capitalize them by rewriting the paragraph.

Blog # 5 - Ms. Tornincaso

i love tv it is a very relaxing activity for me after a hard day of work  my favorite tv show to watch is gilmore girls  new episodes of gilmore girls are no longer on because the show has gone off the air  however i do watch reruns that are on everyday  i also have bought the box set of dvds of all the seasons of gilmore girls  gilmore girls is about a mother and a daughter name lorelai and rory who live together in stars hallow connecticut near hartford connecticutt  lorelai owns and runs an inn in town  rory goes to a prestigious private high school called chilton in hopes of attending harvard one day  they live alone in this small quirky town with very interesting, funny characters and they are each others best friend  they are very close and do everything together  they are very close in age because lorelai had rory at a very young age  they go shopping together, watch movies together, each junk food together and talk about absolutely everything  loralie is estranged from her parents after having a child at such a young age and never graduating from high school  her wealthy parents live in hartford connecticutt and try to get back into loralie and rorys lives over the years  they go through life together learning together about the trials and tribulations of work school life love and family


Vocabulary

rerun (verb) - to show or perform again

prestigious (adjective) - having a high status 

quirky (adjective) - unexpected or weird

estranged (adjective) - no longer close to

trial (verb) - a test

tribulation (noun) - a cause of great trouble or struggle


Vocabulary Exercise

*unscramble the following words to make one of the vocabulary words above*

alirt

nrreu

ntoriibtual

egesnardt

iryukq

sourepgtii

Grammar Point:  The passage above is written with a lot of mistakes in capitalization and punctuation.  Capitalization and punctuation are very important in writing and in reading.  They make what you are writing or reading make sense or have a better flow.  Punctuation can even change the meaning of a sentence depending on where it is placed or how it is used.

Grammar Point Exercise:  The passage above is written with a lot of mistakes in capitalization and punctuation.  Reread the passage adding in all the necessary capitalization and punctuation to make the passage correct.



       

Blog #4 - Ms. Tornincaso

In addition to being a teacher, I am a cheerleading coach at a High School. Just like teaching, being a coach is a very rewarding experience. Each day I teach, encourage, and condition a group of fine young girls into all around athletes. Cheerleading is often incorrectly addressed as not being a sport. In the state of New York, cheerleading is considered a sport, and one of the most dangerous at that. In cheerleading these girls have to run and jump. They tumble and flip landing on their feet, ready to run to their next spot. They cheer, dance, fly, lift and catch.  All while smiling and remembering to breath.  They have two minutes and thirty seconds to hit a perfect routine and show how talented they are.  There is no "making a come back" in the second half of the match or the fourth quarter of the game. You have exactly two minutes and thirty seconds to put it all out there and not fall, trip, slip, or drop someone.  Each mistake costs you a point deduction. Something as small as not smiling will cost you a five point deduction. Step off the mat, and you just cost your team minus ten points for a safety infraction. Cheerleading is not what it used to be, and we only have two minutes and thirty seconds to prove that to you.

Vocabulary:

rewarding - (noun) something that is given in return for doing something good or well.

encourage - (verb) to inspire with spirit.

condition - (verb) to mold or work on over and over to make something the way you want it.

routine - (noun) a regular course of action done the same way all the time.

deduction - (noun) to take away or to be subtracted.

infraction - (noun) something done wrong; a violation.


Vocabulary Exercise

L U G V D V I P Z C H E N A A 
N Z L N J W D Q J N J G R X A 
Q P J G I L I G U L G A Q L K 
X E G Y A D H D W L J R X W Z 
N O I T C A R F N I P U B A T 
T R J A J K G A N H B O E T P 
B O O M U L S O W D T C B P V 
D E D U C T I O N E V N N K E 
D Z B C T T M Q L M R E H Q C 
K Y O Z I I G G M X P F A M Q 
A B H D J B N E I Z O C U H S 
S A N N J U W E Z G M Z N L X 
X O G Z F K S Y O A A N O A K 
C Q X G Y K J R S K T U X O K 
P J V X O L U T B X P T W I H 

CONDITION
DEDUCTION
ENCOURAGE
INFRACTION
REWARDING
ROUTINE

Grammar Point: The paragraph is written using a lot of verbs to describe the different actions, and create a picture to help the reader visualize what is going on.

Grammar Point Exercise: The students will write a paragraph about something they are doing using as many verbs as possible to help us visualize what they are doing and how they are doing it.