Starting anew

Today we started Unit #2.  It will focus on getting more comfortable with sentences and with the characters and ideas from ABC.

Today, we introducted (or prepared to introduce) CONJUNCTION

Conjunction Junction (click here for a ridiculously fun School House Rock out)

When you want to blend two simple sentences together into one sentence to show a realtionship between the ideas, you'll want to use coordination. 

Today was the best day.     Tomorrow will be even better.  (Notice how each simple sentence has a subject and a verb).
We can use a conjunction to help our reader see these ideas belong together: 

• Today was the best day, and tomorrow will be even better.  (Notice that each still maintains its subject and verb). 
• Notice that a comma was used to signal a change in normal, expected sentence structure. 

• And that a conjunction followed to express the relationship.