EEL Week 11- Review

Good Afternoon!!
Sorry my post is late this week. Thank you to all of you that helped with our celebration on Tuesday!! I think everyone had fun.  In EEL we did a general review. We first played our part of speech review game. It was a little more challenging for some than I thought it would be. It did get everyone thinking. It helped going over all of the words at the end. This is something you could easily do at home on a smaller scale. Just think of some words and see if your child can give the part of speech. You could also give them the sentences at the end of the EEL lessons and ask for the part of speech. Then you would have the answers.
We also reviewed the S-Vl-PN pattern and the S-Vl-PA pattern.
This week at home just work on review. Review all of the charts, but take extra time with the ones your child needs the most work on. It would also be a good time to go deeper into some of them if you did not have time earlier. Moms, please read the lesson in the EEL guide, and work on the sentences at the end of the lesson. I also just want to remind you to not only have your child copy or write out the charts, but it is good to ask them questions from the charts, so they can recall the information in a different way.

Next week we will also review. I think I see a moms vs. kids review game in our future!!
We will probably do a general review at first , and then move on to the review game.
Please come with any questions you have about anything we have covered. If you know them ahead of time, please email them to me.

Thanks so much.
Karen

EEL Week 10

Adjectives!!!! Today we introduced adjectives!! We first worked on what an adjective is, and I read the book about adjectives. We then wrote down a list of adjectives about my crazy Limber Louis puppet.
We went over the adjective chart in class. I said several times that the most important part of the chart is to memorize the shaded areas. Once the shaded areas are memorize, then focus on the rest of the chart.
We went over the differences between adjectives and adverbs. Again I pointed out that knowing what questions each asks  is essential to determining the difference.  We went over several difference types of adjectives and adverbs in a compound sentence.  We then went over the  S-Vl-PA sentence pattern. This sentence pattern is very similar to the S-Vl-PN pattern. We added a new question to ask in determining the words that come after the verb. You now need to ask if the words after the verb rename the subject, and if they describe the subject. If the words describe the subject and follow a linking verb, then the word is a predicate adjective. The S-Vl-PA pattern is diagrammed the same way as a S-Vl-PN pattern. Please let me know if you have any question.

Things to do this week.
1. Read lesson 10 in the EEL guide.
2. Mastery chart L
3. Review previous mastery charts that you need work on.
4. Go over differences of adjectives and adverbs. Give examples.
5. Task sheet sentences at the back of lesson10.

Please let me know if you have any questions.