Today we sorted adjectives which describe people under three thinking hats - red, yellow and green. It was great to have Jake part of our group for the first time too!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Using the thinking hats to sort adjectives
Today we sorted adjectives which describe people under three thinking hats - red, yellow and green. It was great to have Jake part of our group for the first time too!
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
July Newsletter
Welcome
A warm welcome is extended to Bing Da, Eunseo and Hayley who started school last term. We also welcome Jake who has started this term. These students have joined the ESOL programme.
Change of hours
This term Judith and Glenys' working hours have changed. Judith will work Tuesday 9.45-3pm, and Wednesday 9-12.30. Glenys will be teaching ESOL Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning. To reflect these new hours and also the changing needs of our students, our timetable has changed significantly. Please see the latest version on the ESOL window.
Term three topics
The focus of our learning for Term three is self esteem, friendships and report writing. You can support your child's learning by discussing their special qualities and the qualities of other family members. We plan to give your child specific skills to assist them with making friends, being a good friend and inviting friends to their home. This will be celebrated with an ESOL party planned for Week six. Look out for your invitation in Week 4.
Japanese parents meeting
Our meeting for Term 3 will be on Wednesday 4 August at 9am in the ESOL room. Please put this in your diary and tell any other Japanese parents who do not receive this newsletter.
Parent Talk Time
We are thrilled to see so many parents regularly joining us for ESOL Parent Talk Time. Please remember we start at 9.00am sharp with the content of the session. This is particularly important when we have visiting speakers.
Our topics for Term three are:
Wednesday 28 July: Week 2 - Independent Learning (Visiting speaker Toby Stokes, AP)
Wednesday 4 August: Week 3 - Japanese Parents meeting
Wednesday 11 August: Week 4 - Heath services for primary school students (Visiting speaker Public Health Nurse)
Wednesday 25 August: Week 6 - ESOL Party
Week 8 - No Parent Talk Time
Wednesday 22 September: Week 10 - Code of Practice from students, social, planning Term 4
Blog
Have you seen the latest postings on our blog? We have recently uploaded videos of some groups retelling Narratives! Check us out at http://fosesol.blogspot.com
Books with audio CDs
To help your child develop their oral language skills it is important for them to hear correct models of English. One way to do this is to listen to stories on CD. We have a box of book and CD sets in the library specifically for ESOL families to issue. Your child can borrow these in their library time or at lunchtime. Parents are welcome to visit the library to borrow books either before or after school, not during class time. There is a limit of two book and CD sets per family.
Maths websites
At our Week 8 Parent Talk Time we shared a couple of great maths websites. The web addresses for these are www.arcademicskillbuilders.com and
www.numeracy123.com.
Please remember that we value contact with parents and caregivers. If you have any questions, concerns (or compliments!) about our ESOL programme please feel free to contact us.
Kind regards,
Judith Anthony and Glenys Williams
ESOL Teachers
judith.anthony@fendalton.school.nz glenys.williams@fendalton.school.nz
A warm welcome is extended to Bing Da, Eunseo and Hayley who started school last term. We also welcome Jake who has started this term. These students have joined the ESOL programme.
Change of hours
This term Judith and Glenys' working hours have changed. Judith will work Tuesday 9.45-3pm, and Wednesday 9-12.30. Glenys will be teaching ESOL Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning. To reflect these new hours and also the changing needs of our students, our timetable has changed significantly. Please see the latest version on the ESOL window.
Term three topics
The focus of our learning for Term three is self esteem, friendships and report writing. You can support your child's learning by discussing their special qualities and the qualities of other family members. We plan to give your child specific skills to assist them with making friends, being a good friend and inviting friends to their home. This will be celebrated with an ESOL party planned for Week six. Look out for your invitation in Week 4.
Japanese parents meeting
Our meeting for Term 3 will be on Wednesday 4 August at 9am in the ESOL room. Please put this in your diary and tell any other Japanese parents who do not receive this newsletter.
Parent Talk Time
We are thrilled to see so many parents regularly joining us for ESOL Parent Talk Time. Please remember we start at 9.00am sharp with the content of the session. This is particularly important when we have visiting speakers.
Our topics for Term three are:
Wednesday 28 July: Week 2 - Independent Learning (Visiting speaker Toby Stokes, AP)
Wednesday 4 August: Week 3 - Japanese Parents meeting
Wednesday 11 August: Week 4 - Heath services for primary school students (Visiting speaker Public Health Nurse)
Wednesday 25 August: Week 6 - ESOL Party
Week 8 - No Parent Talk Time
Wednesday 22 September: Week 10 - Code of Practice from students, social, planning Term 4
Blog
Have you seen the latest postings on our blog? We have recently uploaded videos of some groups retelling Narratives! Check us out at http://fosesol.blogspot.com
Books with audio CDs
To help your child develop their oral language skills it is important for them to hear correct models of English. One way to do this is to listen to stories on CD. We have a box of book and CD sets in the library specifically for ESOL families to issue. Your child can borrow these in their library time or at lunchtime. Parents are welcome to visit the library to borrow books either before or after school, not during class time. There is a limit of two book and CD sets per family.
Maths websites
At our Week 8 Parent Talk Time we shared a couple of great maths websites. The web addresses for these are www.arcademicskillbuilders.com and
www.numeracy123.com.
Please remember that we value contact with parents and caregivers. If you have any questions, concerns (or compliments!) about our ESOL programme please feel free to contact us.
Kind regards,
Judith Anthony and Glenys Williams
ESOL Teachers
judith.anthony@fendalton.school.nz glenys.williams@fendalton.school.nz
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
The Fox and the Crane
We have been learning about Narrative stories. For this retell we decided our goals were to use at least
- 5 different sentence beginnings
- 5 conjunctions
- 4 adjectives and
- 2 similes
To hear the story of The Fox and the Crane, click on Ryan's recording for the beginning and Ji Won's recording for the ending.
- 5 different sentence beginnings
- 5 conjunctions
- 4 adjectives and
- 2 similes
To hear the story of The Fox and the Crane, click on Ryan's recording for the beginning and Ji Won's recording for the ending.
Crow and the fox
I learned about stories at ESOL this term.
I am using puppets to tell the story of Crow and the fox.
I am being the clever fox.
He is clever because he tricks the crow and eats the meat.
Next time I will use sentence beginnings.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Golf
On Sunday I went to golf with my Dad. I needed a golf club, some blue tees and some white balls.
First we teed up and we started. I swung my golf club and hit the ball hard. I had four shots to get the ball into the hole.
After that we played another seventeen holes.
My Dad won because he is a good player.
First we teed up and we started. I swung my golf club and hit the ball hard. I had four shots to get the ball into the hole.
After that we played another seventeen holes.
My Dad won because he is a good player.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Mercury and the Woodman
Our language topic is Narrative. We are learning to tell stories using different sentence beginnings and conjunctions. We are learning to describe a characters using adjectives and similes.
We listened to the story of Mercury and the Woodman then we made stick puppets of the characters. We retold the story as a group. Here is the video of our retell ...
We listened to the story of Mercury and the Woodman then we made stick puppets of the characters. We retold the story as a group. Here is the video of our retell ...
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