Grade 1 EAL In Class Support

After analyzing the results of the DRA assessment the Grade 1 the classroom teachers regrouped the students. Our busy readers continued to develop their reading skills in new groups.  

Viphou, Johan and the girls enjoy making predictions before we begin reading the book.

Miss Carina's students were challenged with the big task of revising learned sight words and had to write a dictation.

All the students took the task very seriously and tried their best.

Miss Kelly's class and Miss Rachelle's class practiced writing personal narratives. The children spent a lot of time planning, choosing and discussing ideas. Ms. Rachelle provided her students with a scaffold in the form of a graphic organizer. 

Miss Kelly's students are busy planning and Vincent is the first one to finish!

Miss Rachelle's young writers are almost finished with their narratives!

Grade 3 In Class Support

Our Grade 3 ELLs together with their mainstream peers had lots of fun this week creating limericks.

After listening to the explanation, the students worked in four collaborative groups. When the limericks were written, the children had to act them out and we all enjoyed their humorous and expressive performances.

Samir, Alex and Sorriaj are performing.

Dog Named Kevin

There once was a dog named Kevin
Who went shopping and bought a lemon
He made some lemonade
And yellow marmalade
And invited his friend named Mevin. (By Samir, Alex and Sorriaj)

Moon Ju and Dinith acting out their limerick.

Sara

There once was a girl named Sara
She went shopping and bought some mascara
Then she ate one Hershie
Chatted to her sister named Lershie
And they traveled by car to Canberra. (By Moon Ju and Dinith)

Moon Ju and Dinith are performing in class.

In Miss Claire's class, the students also started researching about famous performers and writing their biographies.

Mollymoon and Jennifer are learning about Taylor Swift.

In Miss Lisa's class, lots of students finished their "I Wonder" projects and practiced presenting them to the whole class. 

Hyo Yeon's presentation was about one of the best universities in Korea. She is planning to enter it when she graduates from ISPP.

Grade 3 FL Class

My Grade 3 EAL students watched Maya Plisetskaya's dance "The Dying Swan" and had to write about the story behind the dance. Fortunately, none of the children knew the "Swan Lake" ballet story and their guessing was genuine. I was amazed by the stories that they wrote! Several of my students were very close to the original story and I can only explain it by the expressive power of dance and music.

Samir is sharing his story with the group.