EAL In Class Support 

In Miss Anita's and Mr. James's rooms the students enthusiastically follow the Daily Five routines. If any parents want to learn more about the Daily Five routines and support their children at home they can find some useful information here. 

This week I supported our EAL students in their word work and helped them to research the chosen words and make sentences with them. At times I wore the hat of a reading partner, modeled engaged and respectful listening and questioning strategies. I also had a chance to confer with my Full Support EAL students. I listened to their reading and asked them what they thought about their reading skills, their strengths, and challenges. I provided immediate feedback. My students talked to me about their reading goals and we discussed the best next steps for each child. These sessions provided a lot of information for my assessment and planning and helped me to meet the language needs of my students better.

Listening to reading is a very popular task.

During our math time, the Grade 3 students investigated what a kilogram is. The task was to fill three plastic bags with rice. (100g, 500g and 1kg).  Everybody had lots of fun, some rice was spilled, some students learned how to read the scales and finally, the three bags were full.

Gunn really enjoyed the activity.

Shintaro was very precise in his estimation of what one kilogram of rice would look and weigh like.

In all Grade 3 classrooms, the students were busy completing the summative assessment of the unit of inquiry. In Miss Lisa's room the presentations were very successful and the audience learned a lot of interesting facts about various biomes and animal and plant adaptation.

Yuzuka practiced hard and her presentation was one of the best.

In my EFL class,  I chose for my students to complete comprehension tasks about biomes and animal and plant adaptation to provide more information for my students and support them in their research for the summative assessment.

Independent work on comprehension tasks during the EFL class

On Friday I also found time to confer with my students about their home reading programme and all 9 individual conferences went very well and were very productive.

I complemented Raymond on his book choice and we also discussed some useful reading strategies that Raymond should use.