Wednesday April 9, 2014

We had a great morning.

In Reading we started a new story about a caterpillar. We prepared for the story by learning some new vocabulary words. The students picked one of the words out of a bag, read it aloud, and then made a sentence with that word. I then wrote sentences on the board and students had to decide which vocabulary word to fill in the blank.

In Language class we have started to learn about the writing process. We are very excited to start writing a class story. During step 1, prewriting, we planned our writing. We brainstormed ideas about what our story could be about and then voted to make our final decisions. We have decided to focus on culture, since that is what we have been learning about in Social Studies. We will write a story about a boy named Ben who moves from Canada to Taiwan and joins the Grade 1 class at DISK. We will explore his transition into a new culture. The students were SO enthusiastic coming up with ideas and celebrating when their favorite ideas received the most votes. I think we will have a lot of fun with this project!

This afternoon we continued to talk about fractions focusing 1/2 and 1/4.

Later, Mr.Chang came to our class to talk to the students about what to expect for the Science Fair. Afterwards, him and I split up to conference with students about their projects. Basically we were just looking to see that they had a good understanding of their projects and would be able to explain them at the fair. So far so good! Thanks for all your hard work everyone! (Any student who did not have a chance to speak with Mr.Chang or myself today will get a chance tomorrow =) )

The display boards must be ready to bring to school after the break next week. On Monday April 21, 2014 we will be practicing the oral presentation part of the projects. Please bring them in by 04/21 at the latest. I know how hard everyone has been working so thank you so much for your support!

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