I miss each of my students!  I look forward to communicating with you via email or School Status.  Check this page each week for new links and lessons!

 

STUDENTS:

Each Monday, I will post a new link under the "Lessons for Fun" under my photo.  If you would like for me to know what book or website that you are enjoying while you are away from school, you are welcome to email me by clicking on the icon, "Contact" to send me a message. Another choice is to ask your parents to email or text me through our School Status app.  I would LOVE to hear from you anytime!

If you have any ideas for topics for us to cover, even more on subjects we discussed this year in class, just send me a message. That will help me decide the lessons and links I'll post for you to enjoy reading.

For now, you can begin to practice some of the skills we learned this year by scrolling down this page to "Links" and selecting any website you'd like to try! 

My favorite link this week:

ELL = English Language Learning or English Language Learner. 

EL = English Learner or English Language

ESL = English as a Second Language.

FINAL Lesson Post: (5/11/20)

Dear students,

This would have been our last week in classes at school.  After 21 years, I am retiring this month from teaching, and I will miss you! I hope you will have a great summer vacation! If you would like, you can email or text (School Status) your answers, as you did last week.

 

1. What was your favorite part of this school year?

2. If we could have taken a field trip, where should we have traveled?

Lesson Post: (5/4/20)

End of year survey

I would like for you to email or text me (School Status) your answers. I would love to hear your ideas and thoughts!

1. What are the problems that people have during a stay-home period of time?

2. What kind of help do they need? 

3. What are you do to help someone during this time?

4. What has been the best thing about staying home from school for the final 9 weeks of the school year?

The worst thing?

5. In the future, should schools meet in classes at school, only in online classes, or both? Give reasons for your opinions.

Lesson Post: (4/27/20)

After reading last week's lesson, did you remember our tornado safety rules we read and discussed in class? One part of our December tornado lesson was a take-home assignment to get parents' help with compiling an emergency supply list. You were supposed to ask your parents which tools, supplies, and foods should a family have in an emergency box in case the electricity was knocked out by a storm, stores were closed, and you couldn't shop anywhere for at least a week. 

Now, we are in a different emergency than we had ever anticipated - a terrible contagious disease outbreak that prevents us from shopping at stores as often as we would like. Many stores are open, but there are shortages of important products, and people cannot always find what they need to buy.

Here are 2 questions for this week to get your parents' input on:

• What products should we keep in an emergency box in case the electricity is not on for a week?
• What products should we buy and reserve for the next time families are not able to shop in stores for at least a week?

If would love to hear your ideas! Click on the CONTACT button beside my photo above, and let me know what your family decided to keep in case of future emergencies. If you'd like, I will post your answers with your names so others in our classes will know what smart ideas you had!

Lesson Post: (4/20/20)

In addition to our concerns about the Corona Virus during the past 2 months, residents of Mississippi have been hit with numerous tornadoes!  News reports indicate that some Mississippians of all ages have died due to those storms. 

In our EL class in December, we reviewed the ways that people can stay safe during tornadoes. This week's lesson is a review of the important facts we discussed. Please share this with your family, and let them know the answers to these questions:

1. What is the difference between a tornado watch and a tornado warning?

2. What is the "F Scale"?

3. If you are at home when you hear a tornado is nearby, where should you take shelter?

If you are in a store, where would you go to be safe?

If you are outside, where should you go?

4. What are the most dangerous places to be if a tornado hits?

Feel free to contact me with the button next to my photo to check your answers!

Look at the photo below of an enormous tree that was "twisted" by a twister!

Lesson Post: (4/13/20)

The old photos above are from one of the previous pandemics that affected the USA in the early 1900's. Compare what you see in these images with what you see on today's television newscasts. What's different? What is the same? I would love to know your answers! You are welcome to use the CONTACT button beside my photo above.

What is an epidemic? How is it different from a pandemic?

Lesson Post: (4/6/20)

DO YOU REALIZE THAT YOU ARE LIVING DURING AN IMPORTANT TIME IN HISTORY?

This time of being out of school for a long time due to the world-wide disease outbreak is unlike any other time in our lives.

When you are older and have children and grandchildren, you will be able to tell them of all the ways that our lives changed quite suddenly and unexpectedly due to this terrible flu.

This would be an excellent time to keep a journal and write your thoughts each day. Here are some questions to prompt your note-taking

• Remember to answer using the 5 W's! Who what when why where
• What has changed in YOUR life?
• What did you learn about COVID-19? How did you and your family stay safe? Did anyone catch this type of new flu?
• What about school?  Were you good at learning at home? Was it difficult?
• What did you miss? What did you not miss?
• Remember to write about how the houses of worship, mall, stores, theaters, and many other places closed. Some restaurants remained open for carry-out orders only. Some big stores limited how many people could enter at a time.People waited in long lines some days to be able to shop.
  

• How did people around you react to these changes in our lives?

To read about how Americans dealt with other disease pandemics in our history, here's a link:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/basics/past-pandemics.html:

Lesson Post: (3/30/20)

One of my favorite pastimes (fun things I liked to do) when I was young was to look up topics in books called encyclopedias. There were about 20 books in our set of volumes, listing articles arranged from A to Z. An encyclopedia is a source of information on many, many topics - people, places, things, ideas, etc.

What topic have you wondered about?

Think of a subject or person you'd like o know more about, and click on this link:

https://www.worldbookonline.com

Username: wbsupport
Password: distancelearn

About the Teacher:
I am a English language development specialist.  I teach students to read, write, understand, and speak the English better so they can achieve language proficiency. My  students learned another language before they began learning English. What an advantage for the future that is, to know at least 2 languages!

Education:
Bachelor of Arts, Radio & Television, University of Mississippi
Master of Arts, TESL, University of Mississippi
National Board Certification in English as a New Language

Experience:
Tate County Schools, Reading and Language Arts
DeSoto County Schools, Language Arts and English as a Second Language (ESL)