Grade 3 In Class Support


On Monday in Miss Lisa's classroom we were busy learning about the moon. The class was divided into 2 collaborative groups. Miss Lisa and Mr. Borey were leading guided reading in the piazza and Miss Boramey and I stayed in the classroom and read an e-book about the phases of the Moon. We learned about the names of the phases and completed a comprehension task. In order to sum up the information learned, I asked my students to form pairs and exchange 3 facts about the moon.

At the end of the class we sat in a circle to play a game and yet again practice naming the moon phases. All my students were engaged and lots of learning took place.

Listening to the Tumble book about the phases of the Moon.

Learning about Moon phases with the help of game cards.

Thinking about the comprehension activity.

On Tuesday we had an engaging writing activity when we all had to create a story with a real writer. The students revised the structure of the story and shared their ideas about the introduction, events and the climax of their stories. Our students were real risk-takers while presenting their story plans in front of their peers and teachers.

Miss Ellen Leou is a real author and she wrote many children's books.

After the writers workshop we got busy practicing our research skills and collecting information for our report about Earth.

Moon Ju and her group collaboratively selected lots of facts for their report.

EFL Grade 3 

To support the in class report writing I chose to do various cooperative activities related to report writing. During one of them my students had to sort out facts for classification, description, location and dynamics. We also revised the report structure and the meaning of each part.

As a result we created posters with brief reports about our Moon and each student was asked to share his/her poster with the rest of the class.

 

In Class Support Grade 1

In Grade 1 class we continued practicing our rotation activities and today activities at all the stations went really smoothly. The students had group discussions of our essential agreements and tried their best to follow them white visiting the stations.