Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Essentials Week 8 (2017-2018)

In Class...


EEL

  • Reviewed sentence structure, purpose, and pattern with a paragraph of simple and compound S-Vi and S-Vt-DO sentences.
  • Reviewed Adverbs through a simple activity of asking the adverb questions to find out more about a given sentence.
  • New Part of Speech--Prepostitions
    • Sung preposition chant from CC Cycle 1 
      • Chant can be found on CC Connected under the Learning Center, Cycle 1 Memory Work Audio, "Other"
    • Placed bees swarming "T. Jefferson" and used prepositions to tell where the bees were.
    • Prepositions MUST be followed by an object (noun or pronoun)
      • Prepositions and their objects (and any modifiers in between) create a prepositional phrase
    • Prepositions can appear anywhere in sentence and can be used as adjective or adverb
      • This is dependent upon what they modify and what question(s) the phrase answers
    • Important to memorize list of prepositions to be able to pick them out in a sentence
      • Once a preposition is found, look for its object to be sure the preposition is actually being used as a preposition in a prepositional phrase and not as a single word adverb.
  • Continued working with Compound Structure. 
    • Added in the interrogative purpose with the compound structure.
      • Reviewed the 3 ways to change a declarative sentence to a compound sentence.
      • Remember, when parsing an interrogative sentence, it can be helpful to turn it into a declarative sentence to see all of the verbs and such.
Two Different Videos using the CC Prepositions Chant and doing hand motions.  (The second video is the one we as a family learned during cycle 1, but I found the first one and really liked it.  So, I thought I'd share it too!)



Math


IEW
  • Read either a sentence with a quality adjective or our topic/clincher sentence combination.
  • Reviewed quality adjectives and banned verbs
    • Added "got" to our banned verbs list
    • Created a banned adjectives list with the adjectives pretty/ugly, big,  and a lot on our list
  • Final Dress-up--The Clausal Dress-up
    • www.asia.wub
      • IEW uses just www.asia.b because Pudewa feels that "whereas" and "unless" are harder to write with for students.
      • I choose to keep www.asia.wub to keep in line with our EEL memory work
      • You can actually use any subordinating conjunction for the clausal opener, but the ones in the acronym are the most common and easiest for our students to use
    • SRP page 109, TWSS page 174, USHBW page 94
    • Remember:  Clauses MUST have a subject and a verb, but these clauses are dependent (meaning they must be attached to a main/independent clause to be a legal sentence)
  • Continued working on Unit 4
    • Read "The Louisiana Purchase" from USHBW
    • Brainstormed ideas that we learned from the text
      • Used this list to help create our topic sentence KWO
      • Also took this list to help us find relevant information in the source text to use as facts in our KWO
        • Not all students will be ready to work with relevant facts.  Some students may need to stick with what is interesting and important right now.
    • Discussed that another way to help students get facts from the text is to go back and reread the text after you have gotten your topic sentence KWO.
      • After each sentence in the text, ask your student if that fact is relevant or important or interesting.  
      • This is another great way to help them find facts that are relevant to their chosen topic.

Punctuation rules for www.asia.wub clauses are found on TWSS page 174.



At Home...

EEL

  • page 137 (139) in EEL--"At Home" section
  • Study Chart J (Prepositions)
    • It is important to have the list memorized
    • Work on memorizing the multi-word prepositions, if the other list is memorized.
  • Continue practicing all charts learned so far (A through I)
  • Work on the vocabulary words and definitions at the beginning of each lesson covered so far.
    • The names and definitions of the parts of speech are especially important!
  • Analytical Task Sheet
    • Try to complete 1 practice sentence each day 
      • Sentences 1, 2, and 3 are the basic ones this week
        • Sentence 2 is very similar to what we did in class.  
        • Sentences 4 and 5 are advanced, in that they have verbals in them
      • Don't forget the answers to each of the sentences are in the lesson and laid out step by step.
    • Remember the section in Lesson 3 that gives all of the details for the ATS, and remember the steps are laid out for you on each sentence's page.
    • Also, you can create your own sentences by simply changing part of speech for part of speech.
      • example:  Sentence 3 says, "Jesus loved me, and He died?" (SN-Vt-DO, C SP-Vi)  It can be changed to "Jimmy played basketball, and he fell?"
  • Optional--Editing exercises and Spelling List in EEL
  • A fun activity I found for practicing prepositions was to write a poem, with each line being a single prepositional phrase.
    • Example:
Here I come!

Within my bed
On the branch
Until it's time
In a little space
With much moving
Out of the chrysalis I come
Up in the air
Across the yard I fly!





Math
  • Practice Number Knockout at home
  • Practice and work on speed and accuracy of math facts

IEW

  • Lesson 11 from the US History Based Writing book
    • Don't forget the brainstorming in each lesson. 
  • Don't forget about vocabulary words!
    • There are flashcards for these in the back of the student US history book
  • Reminders:
    • EZ+1---only require of your student what dress-ups and decorations he/she can do on their own easily, plus one more as a challenge
    • You cannot help too much! 
      • Model KWO, the writing structure, etc.
    • Hands ON structure and style.  Hands OFF content.
  • Optional--Bring a completed paper to turn in and share on Tuesday
    • This should be a marked copy with checklist, signed by the teacher, if you want feedback.
    • Should also have a clean (and even illustrated) copy for the published student book

Reminders...

  • Be sure to read your lessons for next week--Week 9 in EEL Guide and Lesson 12  in USHBW book.  
    • Also, we will be introducing sentence openers in IEW, so you may want to read over page 180 in TWSS
  • Our next Pudewa night is next Thursday, October 26!  We will meet at 6:30 at Jennifer Clinehen's home.
    • It is so important for everyone to attend these.   Even if you have seen the videos before, you will get new things out of them each time!


My Prayer for you this week...

"Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.  And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.  And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body.  And be thankful.  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.  And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him."   
  Colossians 3:12-17


As my husband says from the pulpit many times, the less of my words you hear and the more of God's words we hear, the better off we all are.

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