Union Chapel and Hawthorn

ESL Newsletter

November 2015

Parent Teacher Conferences
 It was nice to visit with so many of you during Parent Teacher's Conferences.
I always enjoy meeting with the parents of my students and sitting with your child's teacher as we go over your child's strengths and goals.
When school and home work together

I see great strides in student achievement.
If you have any concerns at any time,  please call or email me.  Know that
your child is important to me.

359-5902

hutchinsonk@parkhill.k12.mo.us

BAV Vocabulary

These words are often linked to sites I have made to help them or sites that I have found on the web.
You will also see some learning games to help your child understand the concepts.

Vocabulary	Definition
Action verb	Shows action or ownership
Adjectives	Describe Nouns
Antonyms	Words with opposite meanings
Apostrophe	Takes the place of letters left out.
Author's purpose	The author's reason for writing.  To Inform Entertain Persuade
Cause	What makes something happen.
Characters	People and Animals in the Story
Compare	Tell How Things are Alike
Complex Sentence	Two or more ideas joined with a conjunction.
Compound Sentence	Two simple sentences joined with a Comma and a conjunction. But, and or because
Compound Words	Putting two words together to make another word
Command	Tells or asks someone to do something
Comprehension	Draw Conclusions About a Story
Contraction	A Short form of two words
Contrast	Tell How Things are Different
Context Clues	Can help you understand a new or difficult word. Pictures, word ending or other words to help you figure out an unfamiliar word
Details	Tells about the Idea
Effect	Consequence The thing that happens from the cause
Exclamation Mark	! Used at the end of a sentence when showing strong feelings.
Fact	Based on Real Evidence
Future Tense Verbs	Actions that will happen
Helping verb	Helps main verb show action (to make a statement)
Inference	Read between the lines
Inflectional Endings	Endings that change when the number of objects change.
Linking Verb	Joins the subject to a noun or adjective in the predicate
Main Idea	Most important Idea ( to learn) in a story
Main Verb	Shows what the subject does or is doing
Nouns	Name a person, place or thing
Opinion	Information based on what a person believes
Past Tense Verbs	Actions that happened before.
Period	. Used at the end of a sentence when stating a command or telling a statement.
Plot	What happens in the story
Plural Nouns Plural Irregular Nouns	More than 1 person place or thing
Possessive Nouns	Shows ownership ‘s Tells who or what owns something
Predicate	Tells what the subject does or what it is.
Predictions	Thinking what will happen next.
Prefix	Added to the beginning of the word.
Present Tense Verbs	Actions that happen now
Proper Noun	Start with a capital letter. A specific person, place, thing
Question mark	? Used at the end of a sentence when asking a question in writing.
Run On Sentence	Two or more ideas joined together without proper punctuation.
Sentence	Tells a Complete Thought
Simple Sentence	Subject and a Verb
Sequence	The Order of a Story
Setting	Where and When a story takes place
Singular nouns	One person, place, thing
Singular possessive nouns	Shows ownership
Statement	A Sentence That Tells Something
Subject	Does the action in the sentence.
Summarize  Tell	Tell only the most important things that happened in a story.
Synonyms	Words with the same or similar meanings
Suffix	Added to the end of the word.
Verb	A word that shows action.
Verb Phrase	Made of a main verb and one or more helping verbs
Verb Tense	Tells when the action happened

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Kindergarten will continue to work in their Reach Books. 
They will be learning about farms and farm animals and their babies.
They will also learn about animal parts, the sounds they make and their actions.
The big question is What are farm animals like?
They should know these sight words thus far.
a
the
this
who

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is
my
he
she


I have sent home booklets to practice reading these words. I hope you are reading the booklets with your children.



I have enlarged the sight words so you can print and cut them out and play games with them to help them learn these words.

a	the	this	who
is	my	he	she
I	like	what	has

The new words for December will be
I
like
what
has

Level B


To Your Front Door
How Do We Get What We Need?
Farms
Supermarkets
Categorize
Needs
Wants
Goods
Action verbs
Markets
Author's Purpose
Details
Neighborhood
Main Idea
Genres

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  Noteworthy Dates


November 20
Christmas on the River

Park Hill Schools
5th Grade Choirs Singing
  in Parkville

This month we celebrate two national holidays.


Veterans Day

honors people who served in the military
November 11



This year in class we talked about the different uniforms that were worn during the different military battles too.
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Thanksgiving Day

is when families gather together
 to remember
the first Thanksgiving
when Pilgrims had a feast in the 1600's
to give thanks to the Native Americans
 and God
  for their harvest.
This year it is celebrated on
November 26

 

Park Hill Schools
will not have classes from November 25-27
due to the Thanksgiving holiday.
Classes will resume
Monday, November 30.

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For those of you who have computers check my web pages for more useful information.
There are interactive games and good resources.
It can be found on the Park Hill Web Site under your official school web site as well as

http://www.newsesl.com/

Again I want to emphasize that you need to sit with your children while they are on the internet. Sometimes recommended internet sites can change without my knowledge.

Wishing all of you a safe and wonderful holiday.

http://www.computerlab.kids.new.net/

http://www.designedtoat.com/