Week 9

Work on memorizing the linking verbs, so they can say/sing them on their way in to class this week.

*To the tune of Mary Had a Little Lamb

Feel, become, remain, and taste,
Seem, appear,
Look, sound, stay,
Smell, grow, am, are, is, was, were,
Be, being, been

For Writing:

~ Information about quality adjectives is found in:

1. AHBW book lesson 16.

3. SRN pages 28-34,77.

~ The recommended text is in lesson 14, but use any reference text

~ Take a section from a book you're reading. Identify the nouns and write in quality adjectives. This can also be done with verbs and adverbs and strong verbs. Do this

over several days instead of doing the writing assignment, especially if this is your first year. Use different colored pencils to make it more fun.

Week 8

I hope you guys had a great break! We had a nice family trip and are coming home tomorrow. 

We missed several of you in class on our last day. I'm including several things you can go over at home if you want to catch up. 

We went over Lesson 8 in our EEL guide. 

Our new part of speech was "prepositions" (chart J).

We also worked on compound, interrogative sentences. 

We went through "Charlemagne-Part 2" in our IEW book. 

No new dress-ups, but we wrote our KWO and paragraph together on the board. 

Definitely review Chart J, if you can. 

Here's a fun article about 20 English words we commonly misuse and how to properly use them.
http://qz.com/432285/20-misused-words-that-make-smart-people-look-dumb/

I look forward to seeing you all on Thursday!

Week 7

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him was not any thing made that was made. John 1:1-3

Good morning, ladies! I included the above verse because it shows how God values language...so much that He refers to the one who became Jesus as "the Word". All things were created through "the Word", so words are powerful. Let's not grow weary in doing this good work of teaching our kids the intricacies of language. It has great value!

-You should be finishing up your paragraph on Charlemagne. Use checklist on bottom of p. 87

-Our new stylistic technique this week is the simile. 

-Try to review the Adverbs chart and the Nouns chart 

-Identify adverbs in your daily speech and reading

-Analytical Task Sheets begin on p. 129

Everyone is doing so great! Keep up the hard work! 

-Jenna

Week 6

Just a quick note. Wanted to include the School House Rock "Conjunction" song because it's fun.

At home: refer to pages 108-109 in your EEL Guide
My suggestions:
~ Copy and recite the charts.
~ Work through one to five sample sentences.
~ Look for the first two sentence patterns in your daily reading.
~ Identify conjunctions and compound sentences.
~ Optional: editing, punctuation, spelling exercises.
~ Visit the CC Connected Essentials Tier, if you are a member
~ Spend 20 - 30 minutes daily on this...no more.
~ Lesson 11 in IEW
~Write “Alfred the Great” paragraph

• Highlight everything from checklist p. 84 (including words from topic sentence and clincher that tell the topic of the paragraph)
• Strive to use as many stylistic techniques as possible, but don't let your kid be overwhelmed. If he/she uses a few, that will be fine. 

Also, if you have a set of multiplication flashcards, please bring those to class on Thursday.

Hope you are all preparing in case the hurricane comes our way. Kim will notify us all if there is any change in schedule, due to the storm. 

Have a great week!