In Class Support

This week our Grade 2 students were performing experiments and making attempts to apply their theoretical knowledge about inclined planes to practical usage.

The goal of the experiment was to move the boiled egg from the seat of the chair to the floor without breaking it. The activity really worked well and could be a great example of cooperative learning. During the process our ELLs worked in mixed pairs and had a chance to practice the academic language of the unit, share their thinking and practice resilience (when things did not go well after the first attempt). All students had to be active listeners and effective communicators to achieve their goal.

Kim Veng and Sorriaj  were very successful in their experiment and their egg landed safely in the cushion of tissues without a single crack.

In Grade 3 our students continued to work with the vocabulary of the unit. While planning with the Grade 3 team we invented an activity that we called "Talk Time". On Friday students worked in small groups, each group received cards with unit words and images. The task was for each member of the group to talk about the card for 1 minute (or 30 seconds).

Our students in Miss Claire's class decided to turn it into a guessing game without telling the word to the rest of the group.The whole group had to listen carefully to the description and then guess what the word was.

We had lots of fun and had a good practice of the unit words. Our students said that it was challenging to talk non stop for 30 seconds and also admitted that they are still not knowledgeable enough about certain words. We will make sure that we will do this activity again later.

Arvid's group enjoyed the "Talk Time" activity, listening, presenting and timing each other.

EFL Classes

The highlight of this week for our Grade 2 EFL group was the Split Dictation activity.
Boys and girls had to work with a text about simple machines. While working in pairs my students displayed great social and communication skills. They had to accept responsibility and adopt various roles to be able to effectively complete the activity.

Bravo Grade 2!!

During our Grade 3 EFL classes this week we began to read the book about oil (Messy Resource) and completed a listening cloze. The students demonstrated good communication and cooperation skills, learning a lot from their peers.

Jan worked with Minato and supported him a lot.

Thida and Yubin also worked very effectively together.

EAL Beginners

We continued our guided reading sessions with the Grade 3 beginners this week.  We talked about the structure of the story, created mind maps, discussed favourite characters and wrote a summary. I am sure the best class of the week was when we acted out the "Henny Penny" story with puppets.

Girls are creating mind maps.

Sofia had the part of Henny Penny.