Ms. Hogue's ELL Blog

 This week we will continue with Free Reading with Book Reports and English For Everyone on Tuesday and Thursday.  Reading with Ms. Yu Also, students have the opportunity to do one-on-one guided reading with Ms. Yu everytime they have English before lunch. This is usually once or twice a week. They read books at their level aloud to improve reading fluency and then answer questions to ensure they are understanding what they have read. Remembrance Day We will be learning about Remembrance Day this week. Students will read an article about Remebrance Day and answer comprehension questions. We will look at common vocabulary they will hear on this topic. As well, they will have a discussion question they need to answer in an audio clip. Grammar - Articles This week in grammar we are studying articles - a, an and the. These are small words that have many rules and are very complex to use correctly. Students are learning the rules and practicing using them in exercises, videos and quizzes. T

 This week we will be studying the following topics: Free Reading Students read for the first 15 min of each class Mon, Wed, and Fri. They may bring a book, read online or read one of my classroom books. They record their reading in a Reading Log. They complete a Book Report when they finish each book English for Everyone (EFE) Students work independently in their workbook and listen to online lessons in vocabulary and grammar. They do this program Tues and Thurs for 30 min.  Halloween Students will be completing reading comprehension activities on the history, songs and recipes of Halloween. They will be practicing answering comprehension questions in complete sentences with periods and capitals. Math Vocabulary - Word Problems We are continuing to learn about the vocabulary of word problems in math. This week we are focusing on word problems with multiplication and division. 

 This week we finished our Country Research project and students presented their Google Slides on their country. Our Grammar topic this week is Possessive Nouns - how to properly use an apostrophe to show possession. 

 This week our topics are: 1. Grammar Level 1 - simple present have Level 2 - Quantifiers - Many and Much 2. Country Research Students have chosen a country to research They are using online tools to answer 16 research questions They are taking notes using jot notes (NOT copying from the internet) - due Wed They will turn their notes in to a 3 paragraph piece of writing in Google Docs  They will create a Google Slides presentation and share their information with the class (next week)  3. Thanksgiving We are practicing a Reader's Theatre script called "The First Thanksgiving" Each student has a part in the reading and must listen carefully for their turn to read aloud We will also be learning about Canadian Thanksgiving