My Children

I am a mother of three precious little children. My eldest daughter Rosangel is eight years old. Samuel, my only son, is five years old . And my baby Daniela is three years old. I love my children with all my soul, and they make my day. Sometimes I come home tired, upset, and even stressed. But once I hear "Mommy, Mommy" it brings a smile to my face. My heart melts just to think about them as I write this post.

There is a beautiful poem below from a mother to her child. I agree with the author on how she felt because I too would do anything for my children.

Mother Poem

What indeed would a mother not do for her child?

What I Would Do For You

© Jayne Sena

I would do just about anything you'd ask,
For you there's nothing I wouldn't do, there's no such task.

I would walk without my shoes to the end of the Earth,
I would give up anything I had to, to teach you self worth.

I would hold your hand every minute of every day,
But I won't because I know you need to find your own way.

I would surely bear the heartache of your first love that's real,
Even though I can't, I will naturally feel as you feel.

I would sell my soul if it would keep you happy forever,
I would give my right arm to keep us forever together.

I would run a hundred miles up-hill in the rain,
Just to guarantee that you will never feel pain.

I would laugh with you even if I was sad,
I will give you a smile even if I'm mad.

I can only accept your mistakes with a grin on my face,
I will guide you in correcting them, but at your own pace.

I will guide you through life, as this world can get quite wild,
Just don't you ever forget that you will always be my child.

Vocabulary
Love - a passionate feeling for someone
Forever - eternally
Mistake - an error
Guide - to show the way
Author - someone
When your mentally hurt
Task - part of a job
Children - more than one child
Naturally - by nature
Guarantee - a promise


Vocabulary Exercise

Unscramble each of the clue words.
Copy the letters in the numbered cells to other cells with the same number.

Grammar Point

Is this passage written in the past, present or future tense? Identify the key words that helped you come to this conclusion. Are the keywords nouns, verbs, adverbs or adjectives? A noun is a name a person, animal, place, thing, and idea. A verb is a word that describes an action, state or occurrence. An adverb A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word-group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. An adjective is a word that expresses an attribute of something.

National Boss Day

I arrived to work this morning and noticed that my department had bagels, cake, donuts and juice. I asked what are all these goodies for? My co-workers replied "It's National Boss Day"! I was surprised since I did not recall that today was Boss Day. My cheeks got red as I smiled and walked to my desk. I picked a cinnamon raisin bagel and spread Philly cream cheese on it. It was delicious. My department then gave me a card and beautiful flowers. The office had a nice aroma of flowers. I felt so special. It's a great feeling to know that your employees appreciate you as their Supervisor. Then I realized that I did not get something for my boss! What was I going to do? Luckily my department brought a card and flowers for my manager as well. What an outstanding team I have. I also appreciate their hard work and dedication to this department. Without them I would not be a Supervisor. I really enjoy working everyday with these people, and I dedicate this post to my Compliance department. Thank You!

Vocabulary
Office - location where business is conducted
Supervisor - Someone who ouverlooks the employees work
Employees- someone who workes for someone else and gets paid to do the work
Work - job
Juice - a flavored drink
Recall - remember
Cinnamon - flavored spice
Department - parts of a company
Aroma - smell
Card - a folded paper with meaningful words



Vocabulary Exercise

National Boss Day Vocabulary

 

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AROMA	CARD	CINNAMON
DEPARTMENT	JUICE	OFFICE
RECALL	SUPERVISOR	WORK

 

Grammar Point

Identify how many nouns are used in the past tense.

Last Wednesday I had a poem workshop in my English class at Molloy College. I met our writer-in-residence, Barbara Novack. What an amazing woman and a pleasure to meet. She gave us many poems and stated that poetry is a great learning tool for ESL students. Below are some poems that she gave us to read.

Verb Poem
Boom, rattle, crash,
Duck, run, hide.
I hate broken windows!

Speak, Chat, discuss,
Communicate, gossip, talk
I love my phone!


Adverb Poem

The Goat

The goat bleats happily,
The goat bleats, happily, disturbingly,
Bleats happily, disturbingly, weirdly,
Happily, disturbingly, weirdly, excitedly,
When it sees a female goat.

Vocabulary
Broken- something that was smashed and now is in two or more pieces
Female - girl
Residence - Where you live
Poem - a group of words that have a meaning about something
Workshop - small group of people that are learning about a specific topic
Commincate - to let people know something by peroson, phone, tv, newspaper, etc.
Chat - to talk
Hide - to go somewhere, where you cannot be seen
Read - to say words out loud
Many - more than once


Vocabulary Exercise - Please fill in the blanks with the correct word

1. There are two _____ envelopes in the mailbox.
2. An applciation might ask you if you are a _______ or a male.
3. I have to attend a professional _______ each semester for my Masters Degree.
4. My ______ is in the state of New York.
5. The students had to write a _____ about their favorite color.
6. The children had to ____ while the teacher counted to ten.
7. You have to _____ to improve your vocabulary.
8. The teacher had to _______ to her students that class was canceled.
9. I sat down with my parents and had a _____ about school.
10. When Amy was walking to her car, she noticed that the windows were ______.

Grammar Point
Identify the Verbs and Adverbs from the poems.

The Exclamation Point!

The exclamation point is greatly overused!
One could even say it is frequently abused!
In advertising copy, it repeatedly resounds!
And in breathless prose, it literally abounds!
The poorer the writer, the more frequently the case!
The exclamation point, they readily embrace!
To give a little emphasis! To make a little point!
This punctuation mark they will appoint!
But, to make emphasis perfectly clear,
Good writers generally appear
to make little use of exclamations
and other such typographic affectations.

-- Ed Truitt


Vocabulary
Exclamation point - a mark to tell a strong feeling !
Advertising - announce something to everyone
Repeatedly - more than once
Copy - something made to look exactly like something else
Embrace - hug
Emphasis - special attention
Appoint - to choose
Overused - used to many times
Appear - to show up
Typographic - the style of printed letters


Vocabulary Exercise - Please fill in the blanks with the correct word

1. The children __________ sang the song "The Wheels on the Bus"" during recess.
2. It was an exact _________ of the original painting in the museum.
3. She expressed her anger by using an ___________ on her Facebook status.
4. The ___________ agency was closed due to the broken printing machine.
5. A magician would _________ when you least expect it.
6. The menu had a _________ style.
7. His great _________ on his school project was outstanding.
8. The children _________ their father with love.
9. Some word are __________ when writing a sentence.
10. High school students must _________ their class president.


Grammar Point
Write down all the nouns (a noun is names a person, thing, animal and idea) and adjectives (an adjective descrives a thing) used in this poem.