Why should I worry?

What is your favorite city?  What should I do if I visit your favorite city?

Ellii on Should and other common modals

Modals are helping verbs.  They are never used in continuous tenses and they have their own way to do past tense.

Should I put more grammar on the class website?  Should we do less grammar in class?

Our class is on time on Tuesday, February 24, 2026

PLEASE COME TO SCHOOL if you can get here safely

We are on time in Trailer 4! (Actually, we had to move to Trailer 2)  If it takes a while to get your car out, come whenever you can.  20 minutes is better than 0 minutes.

When you were a child, did you like school?

Write one thing you liked and one thing you didn't like about getting your education.

Did your teachers teach you the "Golden Rule?"

 

NO SCHOOL TODAY (Monday, January 23, 2026)

NO SCHOOL TODAY

The grammar in the next kid's video is terrible,

but it may be a good video for training your ear to listen.

Remember-- wanna = be want to

gonna = be going to (future)

Don't want no = don't want any

Don't want no company no way= I don't want any company anyway

What are you doing today?  Are you cooking? Are you reading?

Are you enjoying time with your family?

Did you enjoy watching the snow?

Read all about it

Our school gives reading tests mostly to show people who give us money that we are a good program.  The tests are completely different than our curriculum.  It often takes 100 hours of reading to move up 5 points on the test.  Last summer, however, three people moved up almost 10 points in only 5 weeks, possibly because they committed to reading one hour every day.  Don't worry if you don't have that kind of time, but please read as much as you can.  

Reading specialists say it's best if you feel interested in the reading and understand most of the words -- no more than 7 new words per page, but at least 1-4 new words every 2 pages.  

I subscribe to Ellii.com to get reading materials for our class.  My subscription allows me to have online "classes" with their materials.  Sign up requires your information, but doesn't require payment because I already paid.  There's no requirement that you use Ellii for our class.

You are welcome to join any of my online reading groups, but I have recommendations.

If you talked to my volunteer, Mary Ann on our first reading day, you should probably join ellii.com/students 82449N

If you talked to Jennifer on our first reading day (working with the sounds of C), or me after break, you should go to  Green Group on Ellii.com or Phonics Awareness Class  If reading or listening is difficult, try to point to words of YouTube songs while you listen or sing with them.

If you are interested in citizenship, you can try:  Online Citizenship on Ellii.com  -- it may be very  difficult.

If you are interested in driving, look at my class for Driving -Including Trucks.

If you are interested in medical English, try English for Medical People

What is your favorite genre?  What are your favorite books?

I should probably go to bed...

 

Challenge Reading: 3 ways to Health

Practice should ___(base verb) and shouldn't ____(base verb)

Today's Kahoot

What time should you go to bed?  What time do you go to bed?  What time did you go to bed last night? What do you like to do at night?  How much sleep do you usually get?

Never google your symptoms

Symptoms are signs of a medical problem like a headache or stomachache or fatigue (feeling really tired)  Hypochondria is obsessing with the possibility that you have a terrible disease.

Practice Health Vocabulary with Learning Chocolate

Quizlet: Health Problems

Do you have any symptoms right now?  Do you have a good doctor?