Week 3- EEL-Mrs. Hinson

Good Afternoon,

     It has been a beautiful day outside. I hope you still get to enjoy some of it.
Today we talked about nouns and pronouns. We talked about all of the different roles
or jobs that nouns have in sentences. We talked about the noun attributes. We quickly
went over the pronoun chart.  We will be memorizing most of the pronoun chart in Foundations.
We also went over the Analytical Task sheet for the first time in class. One thing, that
I did not touch on that was confusing for a few first time moms, was where to find the sentences
to use on the task sheet.  You can task sheet any sentence you want on the task sheet. However, if you would like the answers for your sentences, you can look in your EEL guide.  For each
week of Essentials starting with week 3, there are 5 sentences in the back of each weekly lessons. These are the weekly lessons, that are found in your Essentials of the English Language Guide. This
is the big scary guide that no one opens up. We divided them out at orientation into 24 weeks.
These sentences are for you to go over at home with your student.
The answers are listed. The first 3 sentences are the basic sentences that first year students should be
able to work on after our class. Sentence 4 and 5 are meant for 2nd or 3rd year students .

    I really do want to stress the importance of you doing these sentences in the EEL guide first
in your homeschool especially if you are a new student.  After you have mastered these sentences, then you can move onto the Daily Checklist that Melissa copied for everyone. The Daily Check list that Melissa copied should be secondary to going over the sentences in the EEL guide. It is a great thing to use, but I do caution you away from ignoring the guide and only focusing on the work in the check list. This again is especially true for 1st year students. You may miss some important foundation building if you do not look at the guide or the sentences in it. Please let me know if you have questions regarding this.
    I also really want to stress with you to please read the lesson in the EEL guide each week. You do not need to read it before class. It should help you understand the things I went over in class.  It should not take you very long, and I really do believe it will help you even more than you think.
This weeks lesson starts on page 43. It is a long lesson this week because it gives you step by step instruction for the whole task sheet. We only did tasks 1-4 this week. You only need to read those sections. If you have any questions please call me or email me. Below I am listing some suggestions for you to work on.
    I did forget to mention that there are songs for the pronouns posted on the EEL home page of this blog. Erin made them to go along with the Foundations memory work. 

* I am going to challenge you to bring your EEL guide week 4 to class next week. (Shelly suggested at orientation, to have a small notebook and to pull each week out at a time, so you do not have to lug the whole guide around. ) This is a great suggestion. I will have a small reward for those of you that do bring the whole guide or just week 4.   I follow exactly what is in the guide in class.

What to do this week!
1. Work on memorizing and copying  Chart E and F( noun and pronoun charts)
2. Task sheet using tasks 1-4 for Sentences 1,2, 3 on pages 69-71 in EEL guide for 1st year.
    2nd and 3rd year task sheet sentences 1-5.  ( When I say "task sheet" I mean do exactly what we
did in class. Dictate the sentence ,and then go through questions to find out if it is a sentence , and so on.
3. Work with noun chart by listing nouns and having your child give the attributes of those nouns.

Don't forget those guides next week!!!
Karen