Week 19

In Class....

EEL

• Completed an ATS as came into class for the sentence: "The visitor, who came from Medieval Times, called an airplane a metal bird."
• Did all tasks together, including Quid et Quo for the words: visitor, who, came, and called.

• Practiced Chart D through charades
• Had to not just say verb, but all 5 parts of the verb
• Chart D is easy for us as native English speakers; however, we still need to know the 5 principal parts of verbs and how those parts/forms are made (i.e. present participle is the "ing" form of the verb).  This is sometimes not as easy, as we don't think about the forms of the verbs we are speaking, but these forms are important in written language and, especially in learning other languages.

• Practices Chart O through a scavenger hunt
• I gave out person, number, time, and form
• Students had to give the complete phrase  (pronoun, any helping verbs, and verb in correct form)
• Chart O is the verb anatomy for "to play," which is a regular verb.  Therefore, this could be changed and used for any regular verb (anything where the past tense or past participle do not change forms, but are merely -ed).
• The scavenger hunt activity is an easy way to practice charts O, N, and K at home
• Charts N and K are the verb anatomies for "to have" and "to be," both irregular verbs and both used often in English

Fayetteville 2's Faces of History 2016

IEW

• Shared or favorite section from our "letters from the 21st Century" papers.
• These papers were so creative.  I really enjoyed reading them!

• Played the Sentence Stretching Game to review Dress-ups, Decorations, and Sentence Openers
• It was so interesting to see how different dress-ups and such could affect a sentence and make it completely different!

• Began Faces of History
• Handout--this is your key for Faces of History.  It will guide you through the process.  If you follow the handout by weeks (i.e. Phase 1 equals Week 1), you should finish by April 4.  This will allow you to stay with the class schedule and give you time to practice the presentation for a few days.
• Faces of History presentation will be April 7 at 6:30pm in the building where we had the Christmas party.  It will be a dinner theater.  I will send around a sign-up sheet for potluck for dinner.
• Papers will need to be 5 paragraph essays (teachers adjust this as you need to), based on TWSS Unit 8.  
• Presentations will need to be 5 to 7 minutes long.  I suggest you finish your paper, then do a new KWO, using your paper as your source text, for your presentation.  It would be great to present from the KWO, but if you'd like to write something out, that would be fine too.  Just remember to keep it from 5 to 7 minutes.  You may also read from your original paper, as long as you cut it down to 5-7 minutes.  
• Papers will be written in 3rd person (he/she).  Presentations are suggested to be done in 1st person (I/me).

Math

• Played Quick Minute BoardSlam
• So fun to bring this back this week. 
• Many students were getting 15+ numbers crossed off in 5 minutes!

At Home...

EEL

• Continue memorizing the charts, especially the ones from the Grammar Trivium Tables.

• Take some time this week to work on Charts D and O

•  Complete tasks 1-4 on the ATS for at least 1 sentence per day 
• Tasks 1-6 should be done for second year students and those students moving on to challenge next year.

• Editing and Spelling exercises in EEL guide (optional)

IEW

• Begin working on Faces of History
• Start with Phase 1
• Find your sources, Read your sources, Choose your topics
• KWO/Fused Outline for each topic
• Thesis Statement
• Move on and begin working on Phase 2 if have time

• Start gathering items for your costume (parents are welcome to dress-up as well).

• Start working on your visual.

• Bring your resources (source texts) with you to class next week.
• Be prepared to share the resources you are using, the character you are researching, and the topics you have chosen to write about.

Reminders for Teachers...

• Read your lessons for next class.  Week 20 in EEL Guide.  Unit 8 in TWSS.
• Remember, you are the teacher!  Please adjust/scale assignments to meet your individual child's needs (be it to make it easier, more challenging, or just a little different approach.
• Always feel free to ask me anything.  If I don't know, we will find out together.  I'm not the expert, just the lead-learner.
• Let me know if there's anything I can do to help you and support you!

My Prayer for you

 This week's "Words of Encouragement" at the end of the lesson in the EEL Guide really spoke to me.  Take a moment to read it.  It is a reminder to slow down, be watchful, and devote ourselves to prayer for our children.  If you are like me, you get caught up in trying to do everything to the best that you can, rather than leaning on the one who can do it far better than we could ever imagine!  I needed the reminder this week that I must spend time in prayer for my children each day, and I must put them in the care of the one who loves them and knows them better than I ever could.  

"Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful."  Colossians 4:2