I am so excited to start Essentials with you all this year.
As I'm preparing lesson plans, I wanted to give you guys a heads-up on a few items, just to get you prepped a little for our first class.
Our Essentials parent meeting will be August 12 at 5:30 at my house. Our address is 12390 Bass Rd. Here is a link to a google map.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ynfa_2BZNg46Ow4-7DDVz_9k2Co&usp=sharing
I'll have some finger foods for us to enjoy. The meeting will probably go much smoother without kids (i.e. we will be able to have real, adult conversation) so if you can, arrange for childcare. Dads are welcome at the meeting, but as long as the main "teacher" is present, that'll be great. Here are a few things we will be discussing:
3 parts of Essentials
Looking at curriculum materials for each part of Essentials
Overview of EEL guide (grammar curriculum)
Student notebooks
IEW notebooks (writing curriculum)
Answering questions you might have
Please bring your Essentials of the English Language (EEL) guide and a big binder in which to store your guide. Here's a pic of mine. It looks like maybe a 2 1/2" binder. We can open up your guide and organize it into your binder at the parent meeting.
Here are a few topics we will be discussing in our first class. I have uploaded songs to google drive that will familiarize the kids with these ideas.
parts of speech
sentence patterns
4 purposes of sentences
parts of a sentence
subject and predicate
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7zTzghevU9UaHVuaWxoczFjS3c
If you have time to listen as a family, that is great. If not, that's ok. You can always listen to them after the first lesson.
I'll be posting an "About Me" blog in the next couple days, so you can get to know me a little better.
I am so excited! Let me know if you need anything!
-Jenna
