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!