GRADE 3 EFL CLASS

 To support the development of our students writing skills I thought of a small project for my G3 English language learners. I carefully chose stories for my students to read with reach language and patterns for them to explore. We read three stories in a week.

The next step for my students was to use the patterns in their own writing. Some scaffolding table cards were made to remind the children of the patterns we focused on.

Scaffolding table card

Another form of scaffolding was the picture story starters that were given to the students. That way they did not have to think about what to write and could start planning straight away. It was important as we had only 45 minutes for planning, writing and editing our written piece. My plan is to share the written pieces and explore how we can improve them as well as celebrate a successful story writing.

GRADE 3 EAL IN CLASS SUPPORT

In Miss Erika's classroom this week we practiced three digit numbers addition and subtraction.
The children moved through various stations with maths activities. It was exciting to observe the choice of strategies that our students made as well as their well-developed collaborative skills.

All the children enjoyed their maths lesson.

Miss Lisa's Grade 3 students had a session with Miss Alison - our counselor. The children were offered to make a decision in a real-life situation, discuss consequences and share reasons for their opinions and choices. I supported our English learners and they all managed to understand the subject of the discussion and share their ideas. The moral values were discussed and the children made the connections between their values and the decisions they make.

All the student had to share their values with the rest of the class.

As Miss Anita continued working on her assessment of reading, our Grade 3 students and I explored the six various ways to start a story in an unusual way. First, the children shared their ideas of sizzling story starters. After the discussion, I taught our students how to start a story in six different ways. The children practiced starting the story with a dialogue, sound effects (onomatopoeia), a question, action lead, snapshot of a small moment and a flashback.
The next day Miss Anita's class had a session with our librarian Miss Rachel about sizzling story starters they were able to make connections to what they already knew.

All the children enjoyed listening to the book Miss Rachel read.