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Friday, October 17, 2025

NO SCHOOL MONDAY, October 20 It's Diwali!

 



Did you ever see a Diwali celebration?  What did it look like?
 

What's your favorite holiday?  Do you usually go shopping before that holiday?  What do you buy?

What do you like to wear on your favorite holiday?

What are you wearing?

 

(Jumper has a different meaning in US English)



What are you wearing now?
What do you like to wear in the winter?
What do you like to wear in the summer?
What do you usually wear to a party?

Thursday, October 16, 2025

I seldom do that, but I'm doing it today!

 

What are you doing now?

What do you usually do on _______(this day of the week)?

Did you ever have to change your routine?  What happened?

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Lady in Red-- Describe people with adjectives in the correct order (1. Opinion 2. Size 3. Color 4. Pattern 5. noun that you are describing)


When you describe clothing, use the adjective order: opinion, size, color, pattern.

(If there isn't a pattern, the word "plain" goes before the color.)
She's wearing a dramatic, long red sparkly dress.  I'm wearing a comfortable, large, plain blue tee-shirt.






(NO SAS-C POMP= number, opinion, size, age, shape, color, pattern, origin, material, purpose)


What is your favorite color?  What is your favorite season?  What's your favorite outfit?  
Describe what you wore when you looked really good.

What do you look like?







For this class, you only need Opinion--Size--Color--Pattern
It's difficult to find internet resources on adjective order that only have these categories.
It's also easy to find internet resources that are totally wrong about the order.



Advanced Class adjective order is NO SASC POMP -- Number Opinion Size Age Shape Color Pattern Origin Material Purpose  (I think numbers often replace articles and that an article (a-the-an) isn't an adjective)  Practice Adjective Order -- Advanced, but the easiest I found

Describe a good friend, a relative, and/or an outfit that you like to wear



Sunday, October 12, 2025

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day ! We HAVE SCHOOL MONDAY! (Children don't.)





Government offices, banks, and libraries usually close today.  Restaurants and stores usually don't.  They are often crowded with people who don't have to work!  Sometimes, they offer good deals.

Sometimes schools close, sometimes they don't.
For 2025, our children don't have school, but we do.

Knowing that Native Americans were here before the English colonists and naming a few North American tribes is on the citizenship exam.  Most common tribes named include: ▪ Cherokee ▪ Navajo ▪ Sioux ▪ Chippewa ▪ Choctaw ▪ Pueblo ▪ Apache ▪ Iroquois ▪ Creek ▪ Blackfeet ▪ Seminole ▪ Cheyenne ▪ Arawak ▪ Shawnee ▪ Mohegan ▪ Huron ▪ Oneida ▪ Lakota ▪ Crow ▪ Teton ▪ Hopi ▪ Inuit

Did you celebrate Columbus Day or Indigenous People's Day?
What did you do?
What did you wear?

Friday, October 10, 2025

We have school on Monday

 Fairfax County children don't have school, but we have school.  I'm going to be here.


Do you have a favorite day of the week?  Do you have a favorite season?  Write about it!