Week 19

Good Afternoon!

We mostly had a day of review. We started out by talking about the whole verb chart from memory.
We then worked on making up sentence by using certain attributes for the verb and then working with the verb tense. The chart this week is the verb anatomy for to play. It is chart O. I encourage you to have your child copy it. The repetition will help even if they don't understand all of the different forms.  Let me know if you have any questions about the chart or the verb anatomy.  We then worked on a sentence. We did not quite get through the quid et quo in the first class. In the second class I changed things up a bit at the last minute since they were falling asleep.  I am going to try to have them up and working on sentences together if possible in the coming weeks since I know it gets hard to sit in their seats at the end of class.
I did mention that I was going to let the kids quiz me next week.  It will be a game of them against me.  I told them they could ask me any question that is found on the memory work charts for EEL.  This would not include the memory charts for IEW or anything from IEW. Also, my daughter asked if she could question me on the how the charts were numbered.  For example, which chart is labled Chart A. The answer would be the 112 Sentence Classification chart. I told her that was not a question I would allow. So anything else that is found on the memory work that they are asked to memorize is fair game. I am not going to study them this week, so hopefully I will do ok.  They may look at the charts during class to find a question to ask. They need to know the answer.  They may look at the charts to find the answer to the questions they ask me.
I am in turn going to ask them a question. They may not look at the charts to answer the ones I ask.
I will be asking their questions without looking at the charts, and I am not going to prepare their questions in advance. This will be to their advantage.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Karen

Week 18

Thanks to everyone who brought snacks and helped out with the math party yesterday.
A special thanks goes to Rose and Rhonda for coordinating everything. I think everyone had fun.
We mostly did a review yesterday of the 7 sentence patterns. Everyone did a great job figuring out
my sentences.  We also worked with making simple sentences complex, and we also worked with
making up sentences that fit one of the 7 sentence patterns. Both of those are dialectic tasks.
It makes us think . Try doing some of that at home. You can also do some of that with the verb attributes.
You can ask your child to give you a sentence where the verb is : 1st person, singular, active voice, indicative mood,  present progressive tense.  The answer could be " I am falling off the bed. "
Let me know if you have any questions. Both classes beat their marbles from the previous week.
I will have some small treat for them. We only have six more weeks of class!! We have one more sentence
structure to cover from Chart A. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Moms, keep reading the lesson in the EEL guide for each week. It really will help you!
Keep with memorizing the charts. Doing them orally is a good way to see how much your child
can remember.  Let me know if you have any questions.
Have a great week!!

Week 17- Sorry so late!!

Good Saturday Afternoon,

Sorry I am so tardy in writing this blog.  I guess I have been on winter break.  I hope
everyone had fun in the snow!!  I am ready for warm weather now, since we have finally
gotten a really good snow fall.  This past week I introduced our final sentence pattern.
We worked with the S-Vt-DO-OCA.  We have covered all 4 sentence purposes, all 7 sentence
patterns, and 3 out of 4 sentence structures. We have seven more weeks to go!! It is hard to believe
we have made it so far. Keep studying those memory charts!! Getting those charts into your kids
minds is one of the most important parts of EEL.  Thanks to everyone who played the Adjective Chart relay. The moms won in both classes. The kids did a great job!! My first EEL class won
the marble contest. They answered 106 questions , and my second EEL class answered 79. I will
have a small treat for them at the beginning of our next class. Also, next week we will have math at the end of both classes from 2:30-3. Melissa sent a separate note about our special party and math game.
Please let me know if you have any questions about his weeks lesson. I really don't have anything
to add at this point. This next week we will be reviewing and going over all 7 sentence patterns in class.
Karen

Week 16

We finally have a Tuesday without any snowy weather.  I gave out a lot of new information today.
I started out going over the verb tenses. We talked about how we describe a verb's tense by time and form.
We describe the time by using present, past and future. We have talked about this before. We describe a verb's form by using simple, progressive, perfect , and perfect progressive. I went over how to form these tenses in class. I am not going to go over the steps on the blog. The bottom of the verb chart and all of the verb anatomy sheets give instructions on how to do this. Please let me know if you have any questions. Chart N is a memory chart that has the answers for the verb "to have".

I also introduced the new sentence pattern of S-Vt-DO-OCN. This is not a very common sentence pattern. I found this chapter VERY helpful in the past. Please do try to take time to read it. I know it looks like it will take you a long time to read it, but the lesson is not very long. It should only take about 10-15 minutes to read.  The Object Complement noun renames the Direct Object and will only be in a sentence if there is a Direct Object.  You will not have an Indirect Object and an Object Complement Noun in the same clause.
Only certain verbs can take an Object Complement Noun. You can not just make on with any old verb.
Some common verbs are : call, elect, consider, name, paint, judge, choose, nominate.
The Object Complement Noun renames the Direct Object in the same way a Predicate Nominative renames a Subject.   Please let me know if you have any questions regarding this.
In the first class we talked about how to Quid et Quo nouns and pronouns without using the chart. We went through and talked about all the ways we can describe a noun and all the ways to describe a pronoun.
We did not have enough time in the second class to talk this through. We basically did the Quid et Quo sheet for a couple nouns and pronouns without looking at the chart.

Things to do this week.
1. Moms, read lesson 16.
2. Review charts E,F,N
3. Task sheet sentences from lesson 16 doing all 6 tasks if possible.
4. Call or email me if you have any questions.