In Class EAL Support Grade 3

Miss Anita's students and Mr. James's students continued to learn about the 5 daily routines that help them develop their reading and writing skills. Every day our students have to:

• Read to self;
• Read to someone;
• Do some word work;
• Listen to reading;
• Work on their writing. 

Our English language learners are engaged in the same routines and their favourite is listening to reading. I usually support them during their word work and writing time. Often my students choose to practice reading with me first before they read with one of their friends. 

Shintaro is reading to himself.

Lucas and Shintaro are reading to each other and Miss Mom monitors the routine.

Gunn is listening to reading.

In Miss Anita's  and Miss Lisa's classrooms our students created beautiful poems, using metaphors and similes. We revised what a simile and what a metaphor was and created a shared poem for students to use as a model. Next, the children were given time to create their own poems independently and finally we had a sharing session on the carpet. Lots of our students were proud of their poems and had an intention to publish them on their blogs.

Miss Lisa's students enjoyed sharing their poems.

Miss Lisa's students revised their unit vocabulary and practiced various spelling strategies.

Constanza, Yuzuka and Shawn worked together to improve their spelling skills.

Mr. James's EAL beginners played a lot of various spelling games and their favorite was Bingo with sight words.

Gunn id the winner!!!

English As a Foreign Language Class Grade 3 

During our EFL classes, my Grade 3 students were engaged in a collaborative activity.  The children had to read a book Earth's Water, choose a topic they wanted to focus on (eg. Uses of Water, Water Pollution, etc) and create a poster in a small group of 3 students. 
While working on the posters my students were involved in meaningful discussions about the new facts they learned from the book. They also argued about which photos to use, asked and answered numerous questions. It was exciting to observe their choice of strategies and to hear the academic language of the unit in use.

Meyher consulted with Miss Boramey while creating a poster.

Helmi, Daylin and Irrham created a great poster about how people use water.

Daylin, Helmi and Irrham are presenting

When the posters were done, my students presented them to the whole group. 

Yuzuka and Lucas being real risk-takers!! Yuzuka spoke up!! They talked about the importance of water.

Edwin, Takuto and Janora talked about water pollution.

Gunn and Shintaro talked about the various states of water.

Grade 3 English as a Foreign Language Class

Recently my Grade 3 English language learners practiced reading comprehension strategies. We read about our favorite characters Henry and Mudge and also about Frog and Toad.  We learned how to write summaries, discussed how to make deep connections and tried to analyze what caused the problem in the story. 

Constanza is thinking about deep and surface connections.

Miss Mom supported Yuzuka, Shintaro, Gunn and Lucas to make different types of connections.

One of our learning intentions this week was to construct understanding about the water cycle. Our success criteria were to learn and be able to explain the words: EVAPORATION, CONDENSATION, PRECIPITATION and COLLECTION.  We watched several educational videos about the water cycle and also had to complete a labeling activity. Several confident thinkers in my class offered their one-sentence explanation of the words in focus. I put the best sentences on the board for the rest of the group to use. Next week we will continue to develop our understanding.

Miss Boramey supported the discussion about the water cycle at the girls' table.

Grade 3 In Class EAL Support

In Miss Lisa's and Mr. James' classrooms we do a lot of work with our English language learners. A great opportunity to practice using the academic language of our Water unit was when the kids had to share facts about water with their partners. 

Shintaro confidently shared his fact with his partner.

Maths time

Our big challenge last week was to create a mini-book about water with Mr.James' beginner students.

Lucas, Gunn and Shintaro read several easy books about water to collect information. We also made meaningful connections to the boys' background knowledge. As a result, our students created amazing books and were proud to present the reading that you can see below.





















In Miss Lisa's classroom we read a book "The Force of Water" and had a discussion about the features of the non-fiction book and the amazing facts that we learned from it. Our learning intention was to expand our collection of facts about water. We also worked hard with a small group of students to improve their spelling skills.

Our spelling class is fun!!

While the rest of the Grade 3 students were busy with the ISA test, EAL beginners from Miss Lisa's and Mr. James' classes enjoyed additional English language classes. We read and innovated stories, practiced some spelling strategies, asked and answered questions and of course played language games.

Yuzuka won our memory game!

Grade 3 In Class Support

In Miss Anita's room, we continued to practice our Daily 5 routines. The students have to read to someone, they have to read to themselves, they have to do some word work, work on writing and listen to reading. Our librarian Miss Rachell came to Miss Anita's classroom to teach the students how to find and work with interesting words while they read stories. 

While working in four groups Miss Anita's students practiced expanding their vocabulary.

In order to help our students to become independent learners, we focus on various strategies that help to develop their reading skills. While focusing on comprehension strategies our students were learning how to make connections.

Our group enjoyed making connections.

When it was our time to practice fluency the students read a story and recorded themselves using Ipads.

Jack and Chace are recording their own reading.