Grade 1 In Class Support

We had a busy week in all three Grade 1 classrooms.

In Miss Rachelle's room we were testing our students and doing some reading activities. With my groups I read a big book "All Through the Week with Cat and Dog". I chose this book to revise the days of the week. After reading and discussing the book we played a memory game. All the students had a great time and were very enthusiastic about the story and made interesting connections.

We also read a book about after school activities and discussed what the children like to do after school. Working in small groups of 4-5 students gave each student a chance to share their ideas and opinions. 

I also used this time to give my grade one students a mini lesson  and talked to them about books with information (non-fiction) and books with stories (fiction). We shared our ideas about how we interact when we discuss stories. We practiced giving reasons for our opinions and listening actively to our peers. 

Miss Rachelle's students are discussing the story.

In Miss Carina's class I supported young writers. It was exciting to see how Miss Carina's students were experimenting with words, while attempting to explain why they like to do certain activities.

Kasper took time editing his writing and correcting his mistakes.

In Miss Kelly's class I observed lots of happy learners being very engaged in cooperative learning. The children had to work with partners and create faces with various facial expressions (happy, tired, sleepy, angry, surprised, etc.) out of play dough. When the face was ready they had to share with the teacher. The children were very creative and were making tears to go on a sad face and wrinkles to go on an old face.

Miss Kelly's students enjoyed this creative activity.

Grade 3 in Class Support

All my Grade 3  EELs practiced reading and thinking about the text this week. My students employed various reading strategies such as look back through the text; identify what the difficulty is; etc in order to complete the comprehension assignment prepared by the 
classroom reacher.

It was Jennifer's turn to read during our guided reading session.

When it was writing time Miss Claire's students were learning about speech marks and direct speech. 

It was raining the day before and all the paths in ISPP were full of creepy crawlers. 
Miss Claire thought it would be a good trigger for our kids' imagination and asked our students to create a dialog between a worm and a centipede. Needless to say the students had to practice using speech marks.
The plan worked and Mollymoon and KimVeng eagerly imagined the creatures and came up with a dialogue.

We all had lots of fun creating dialogues!

Grade 3 EFL Class

All this week we talked about our home reading programme with my Grade 3 ELLs. We discussed the importance of reading in their languages and in English. Together we shared strategies that my students employed to construct the meaning of the language and understand the main idea of the story. We read a Chinese story and I modeled thinking about the story and answering questions. I hope that after this session it will be easier for my students to create their home reading written responses independently.