Come on Time if you can

The children start two hours late on Thursday, Jan. 31, but we are supposed to start on time!

Challenging poetic song...

Please come as soon as you can!

Soooo COLD!

Winter Clothing

How did you stay warm today?  What are you wearing?

NO SCHOOL on Wednesday, January 30th!!

Schools are closed!  Enjoy the snow!!

Study class vocabulary

Practice frequency adverbs

Practice using simple present (verb tense for routines, facts, frequency, transportation schedules, and non-action verbs)

Try to Memorize Parts of Speech

Walkin' = walking  listenin' = listening  middow = meadow

What are you doing today?

Morning Classes have school on time on January 29, 2019

Please come to school!  The ACE classes that are canceled (in the emergency notification on the FCPS website) are in the afternoon or evening.


This next video is missing many apostrophes and a few capitalizations.  Can you find the words that should have them?  What are they?

See you at school!  Please be careful when you drive home.  How long does it usually take to get home?  How long did it take today?

Parts of Speech...

I don't expect anybody to understand parts of speech yet.  Parts of speech are names of categories that we use for words.  We use these names to talk about English grammar (typical patterns) the way math teachers talk about algebra with an x or a y.  Parts of speech are things to remember, not exactly understand.

So far, I introduced nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

These educational videos help children remember parts of speech.  I understand and respect that YOU are an adult.  I like to use songs when I want to remember things.  If it helps you, use it.  If it doesn't, don't.

Please change somethings gonna happen to "something is going to happen."  Verbs change to tell you about the time things happen (Verb tenses.  We studied=past, We study every day=simple present.  We are studying now.  We will study tomorrow=future.)  Verbs tell what something does or what is.

Grammar Gorillas -- Game to identify parts of speech in sentences

Link to practice all the parts of speech.

What are some of your favorite nouns?  What do you like to do?

Everything I do...

What's your first name?  Where are you from?  What do you do every day?
Do you have a big family?  Is your family here?
What do you usually do for your family?  What do you like to do for your friends?

Children go to school two hours late, but our class starts on time!

I know that children need watching.  Come as soon as you can!!  15 minutes is better than 0 minutes!


For the homework worksheets, look at the verbs.  Verbs are action words. Examples:   He likes Chinese food, and she does too.  He is Chinese, and she is too.  Only use "to be" (is, are) with "to be." (is, are)  Other verbs take "does" or "do" in simple present.  (Other verb tenses use their own question words for short answers.  I'm going to study, and Gulshan is too.  I'm not going to wait, and Bob isn't either.  I will wait, and Maria will too.  I won't quit, and my students won't either.  I can cook, and Liz can too.  Dorothy can't cook, and Rick can't either.  I went to France, and Maria did too.  I didn't go to Antartica, and Quy didn't either.)

Grammar Explanation and Practice for Simple Present

Be careful!  I hope I see you at 9:00.

Did you have "snow days" when you were a child?  I didn't have snow days when I lived in Colorado.  I was really surprised at my first snow day in Virginia.

Write about a memory in the snow.

That's My Goal

What are your goals for this class?   What are your goals for your job?  What are your goals for your children?

SNOW!

Vocabulary: Playing in the snow!

Winter Clothes

Do you like snow?  Did it snow a lot in your former country?  Write a story that happened on a snowy day.  What are you doing today?

Eastside

Where were you when you first fell in love?  What did you do?

(I went to old movies and took walks together)

You look soooooo good

Can you find the two mistakes in the lyric video?

Did you ever have this moment of looking at a person in amazement because that person looks wonderful?  Describe the person