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.

In Class Support Grade 3

In  Miss Anita's classroom the students enthusiastically practiced constructing oral persuasive texts. They learned to differente between facts and opinions, and supported their points of view with thoughtful reasons. We also played the 2 Corners game where the children had to explain their choices. 

Miss Anita's students had a chance to persuade a partner or the rest of the class.

The students discussed debating and came to the conclusion that if you really want to persuade another person, you need to be calm, confident and polite.

We all shared our personal connections to the book we read.

In Miss Lisa's classroom, we continued to read in groups. Our focus was on personal connections. 
Revising narrative structure was another task for our small group to do. We discussed events and the problem. Our stories got longer and better.

Yuzuka and Meyher worked together while reading stories

In Mr. James' classroom, we also had to revise narrative structure and parts of the story. Shintaro and Lucas practiced sequencing color cards with various parts of an easy story. After that, we used a graphic organizer to plan Shintaro's and Lucas's own stories. As the week went on, we were adding to the story. Finally, all the parts were in the right place and Shintaro had a beautiful story about an orange fox and Lucas had a great story about a green dinosaur.

Lucas and Shintaro working together.

EFL G3 

Last week I introduced the split dictation activity to my EFL students. 

While checking the home reading notebooks I realized that lots of my students are confused and do not make good choices when creating their responses. Next week I will model the steps for the home reading process and hopefully, there will be less confusion.

All my students had to choose a question from a home reading card to answer.

Hello Everyone and welcome back to school!!

Our educational journey continues and I am excited to start this academic year with my new Grade 3 students and a new team of Grade 3 teachers: Miss Anita Marthur; Miss Lisa Caple and Mr. James Schofield.

This week we spent time getting to know each other, testing our new students and planning our first unit of inquiry.

During our grade 3 English as Foreign Language class my students shared how they spent their summer holidays and we had a meaningful discussion about their various cultures and countries.

We talked about respect and the children shared their understanding of the concept in the form of a mind map.

The plan for next Monday is to make connections between our discussion about respect & how this ties in with moral values, choices and decisions.

Creating mind maps was fun!

SCHOOL'S OUT!

Thank you to all ISPP students and parents, teachers, TAs, support staff and admin for a great year!
Have a safe and relaxing break, enjoy your summer and see you in August!

Thank you for being so fabulous!

EAL Grade 3 HOME LEARNING on the 2nd of June 2017

        

Dear Students,

Since the school is closed and we are unable to work together in the classroom, we will be taking our work online, via my EAL blog and email.

Today I would ask you to listen to a story, then read it and complete some writing activities.

Please click on the following link and choose a story that you like. 

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-c/index/load.htm?f

·      Listen to a story

·      Read a story

·      Make your own connections in writing (please share your Google doc with me); write about the 

     message of the story.

·      Begin writing a diary about your daily experiences

I will be available from 8am-10am and from 1pm-3pm to mark your Google Docs, answer your emails and help you in any way that I can. My e-mail address is: tatianastadnitski@ispp.edu.kh

Have fun!

Miss Tatiana

Grade 3 In Class Support

Our Grade 3 students continued to experiment and learn about various types of performances.

In Miss Michelle's class, they had an exciting session of performing the stories we read together. The students listened to the story and then had to pair-share for 5 minutes. Next, they had about 15 minutes to practice retelling the story with a partner. The goal was to entertain the audience and our students tried to employ the learned strategies: they asked the audience some questions, asked the audience to copy their gestures, they used voices and presented unexpected turns of events to keep the audience focused.

Everybody really liked the activity and were very engaged. When it was time to present both the audience and performers had lots of fun.

The boys were confident and funny and the rest of the class truly enjoyed their presentation.

Later this week Miss Claire's students worked on creating podcasts with the help of the bossjock app.

They worked in 5 collaborative groups and had to record a fairy tail with sound effects and music.

Kim Veng's group was practicing retelling "The Goldilocks and the Three Bears" story. Kim Veng was responsible for various sound effects. The students were excited and collaboratively chose the music for their podcast.



During the Grade 3 rotation this week I worked with a group of students creating and reciting poems.

The students had a choice to work individually or in groups. Rossie chose to work by herself and created a lovely poem. While reciting her poem, Rosie practiced improving her expression and her ability to speak loudly and clearly.

Bravo Rosie!!

EAL In Class Support In Grade 1

Miss Carina's students practiced creating timelines about the most important events in their lives. We had a very interesting discussion about everyone's past. We also talked about what events are important and why. At the end of the lesson the timelines of all four students were ready and I am sure the rest of Miss Carina's class will find them very interesting.

Miss Carina's students wrote about their first birthdays, first teeth and first steps and of course about the time when they first came to ISPP.

In Miss Kelly's classroom all the students were busy writing their personal narratives and Vincent shared a lot of ideas with me.

All the scaffolding cards were very helpful and Vincent finished his story about a lost teddy bear just in time.

FL Grade 3 Class

In my FL class this week the Grade 3 students were engaged in an exciting task of figuring out the message of a painting. First we discussed the paintings, talking about what colors, lines, forms and the main subject they saw in the painting. The next step was to interpret the paining and try to figure out what the artist wanted to say to his audience.

Jiun and Hyo Yeon confidently presented their ideas.

Moon Ju and Mollymoon had interesting ideas and Moon Jo structured the presentation very well.

Maly and Hailey shared a lovely story about a bird in November.

On Friday we enjoyed playing charades. All my students were very creative miming their tasks. Everyone was excited and laughed a lot.

Kenta chose Moon Ju and she shared her guess.

Mollymoon was very expressive and lots of her friends were eager to give the answer.

Grade 1 EAL In Class Support

After analyzing the results of the DRA assessment the Grade 1 the classroom teachers regrouped the students. Our busy readers continued to develop their reading skills in new groups.  

Viphou, Johan and the girls enjoy making predictions before we begin reading the book.

Miss Carina's students were challenged with the big task of revising learned sight words and had to write a dictation.

All the students took the task very seriously and tried their best.

Miss Kelly's class and Miss Rachelle's class practiced writing personal narratives. The children spent a lot of time planning, choosing and discussing ideas. Ms. Rachelle provided her students with a scaffold in the form of a graphic organizer. 

Miss Kelly's students are busy planning and Vincent is the first one to finish!

Miss Rachelle's young writers are almost finished with their narratives!

Grade 3 In Class Support

Our Grade 3 ELLs together with their mainstream peers had lots of fun this week creating limericks.

After listening to the explanation, the students worked in four collaborative groups. When the limericks were written, the children had to act them out and we all enjoyed their humorous and expressive performances.

Samir, Alex and Sorriaj are performing.

Dog Named Kevin

There once was a dog named Kevin
Who went shopping and bought a lemon
He made some lemonade
And yellow marmalade
And invited his friend named Mevin. (By Samir, Alex and Sorriaj)

Moon Ju and Dinith acting out their limerick.

Sara

There once was a girl named Sara
She went shopping and bought some mascara
Then she ate one Hershie
Chatted to her sister named Lershie
And they traveled by car to Canberra. (By Moon Ju and Dinith)

Moon Ju and Dinith are performing in class.

In Miss Claire's class, the students also started researching about famous performers and writing their biographies.

Mollymoon and Jennifer are learning about Taylor Swift.

In Miss Lisa's class, lots of students finished their "I Wonder" projects and practiced presenting them to the whole class. 

Hyo Yeon's presentation was about one of the best universities in Korea. She is planning to enter it when she graduates from ISPP.

Grade 3 FL Class

My Grade 3 EAL students watched Maya Plisetskaya's dance "The Dying Swan" and had to write about the story behind the dance. Fortunately, none of the children knew the "Swan Lake" ballet story and their guessing was genuine. I was amazed by the stories that they wrote! Several of my students were very close to the original story and I can only explain it by the expressive power of dance and music.

Samir is sharing his story with the group.