EAL Grade 3 In Class Support

My grade 3 students were busy readers all through this week. We read a book about the Force of Water and an article about why people build settlements close to rivers. The classes were divided in small groups to allow our students to have meaningful discussions and raise questions. Some questions were answered during the reading, while others will still have to be researched.

In Miss Michelle's class during one of our "I Wonder" sessions, Moon Ju and I  were researching how to become a police officer. We found some information online and used the scaffolding card with sentence starters. This video is the outcome of our wonderings.

In Miss Claire's class we discussed how to make shoes, and used some scaffolding cards with sentence starters.



EAL Grade 1 In Class Support

The week had an exciting beginning as we had to participate in a challenging activity outside of Miss Rachelle's classroom. The class was divided into four teams and the challenge was to communicate a certain message to another team.  There were certain rules and we were not allowed to use verbal communication. The students on my team were very enthusiastic and creatively used the materials that were prepared for us.  We wanted to communicate to another group that we were happy and this is what we did:

First we wrote our message on paper but the other team was too far away to read it.

After that we created a happy face out of a hoop and paper balls, which were made into dangling eyes.

The grade 1 students enthusiastically participated in our reading rotation activities. My students read books about saying "thank you" and asking people if they need help. First they made predictions before reading the books, and subsequently made their personal connections after reading them.

EFLGrade 3 Class

After a week long holiday I felt that my students needed some revision of unit vocabulary. On Monday my ELLs began a cooperative activity of creating a poster about the journey of the river. My students had to work in a group of three other students. It was interesting to observe the team dynamics, with some students being highly supportive of each other, while others found it more challenging due to arising arguments.

Moon Ju, Sorriaj and Bie Bie sorting out images and vocabulary cards.

While the girls were writing the title, Jiun and Kim Veng began the sorting out job.

Maly's group is almost done and will be ready to present on Monday.