Grade 3 EFL Class

Summary Writing

In English as a Foreign language class, we read a story "The  Clever Monkey" and practiced writing a summary. First, we thought about the definition of summary and the purpose of summarising stories. The students shared their opinion on what was important in the story and what details they could skip. All the children were engaged in the word choice process. Our goal was to find the right words and construct 3 or 4 clear sentences about the story. 
During the discussion, all my students were successful in creating 3 - 4 essential sentences about the story. However, when I offered them to write the sentences down, several students produced a really detailed description of events.
I will start our next class with a sharing session and will guide my students towards the correct conclusions. We will have one more practice lesson, giving a chance to all my students to experience success.

G3 EAL In Class Support

This week our Grade 3 students began to create their stories.
In Miss Erika's and Miss Anita'sclassrooms, the children learned how to generate lists of characters and draw mindmaps of places for the stories. Our students enjoyed exploring their memories of long and not so long ago and discovering the special moments that triggered natural story flow. 

Colorful mindmaps helped our students to draft their stories.

Rich discussions in Miss Erika's classrooms.

Listening and reading various stories in Miss Anita's room.

All our students listened to various wonderful stories and had rich discussions about the features and elements that they can use in their own writing.

Several strategies were modeled for the students to upgrade their editing skills. A lesson about paragraphs took place in Miss Lisa's classroom. The children listened to the story The Boy Who Cried "Wolf!". After the students had a discussion about paragraphs, they had to assemble the story that was cut into paragraph strips and shared the results with a partner. When all the children completed the activity the reflection session took place. Our students had to share what they noticed and what they wondered about the story and while assembling the text. We also had a chance to remind our students about the story structure.

Vincent and his partner assembling the story.

All the mention above learning engagements had a common goal of unpacking the writing process for our students. Next week we will continue developing the writing skills of our Grade 3 English learners.

EAL FL CLASSES THIS WEEK

Hello everyone! We are glad to welcome back to school our students and their parents! We have a great year ahead!

ISPP if growing and we have a new Building E with several EAL classrooms! How exciting!

My Grade 3 students came to our brand new classrooms for their English as Foreign Language classes this week. We had a good start talking about our summer holidays, watching a video about summer fun and finally writing a short narrative or recount about our summer experiences. The colorful illustrations ranged from blue and yellow beaches to silver jets and tall hotel buildings!

All my students enjoyed the task and the support provided by several teaching assistants. Mr Puy, Miss Theary, Miss Boramey and Miss Mom are the four TAs that help me to meet the individual language needs of each child during this class.

Miss Boramey and her happy team.

Mr. Puy supported Nao Nao and Quintas.

Miss Mom always knows how to keep the boys focused!