Friday, March 25, 2011

ELL Activities for the Week of 3/21/11

Hello Parents,

Here is a snapshot of what each grade level worked on this week during ELL class.  As always, the students worked very hard and accomplished a great deal again this week.

Kindergarten:  Different types of weather/Seasons/National Geographic weather materials

First Grade:  Rooms in a house and their purpose/Label outside of house/Harcourt Book, Take a Tour of My House

Second Grade:  Musical Instruments/Categorizing instruments as Wind-String-Percussion/Writing activity...What instrument do you  play or would you like to play and why? (Journal)

Third Grade:  Cocoa Ice vocabulary and geography lesson...Where is Santo Domingo?  Where is Maine?/
Writing activity--Which place would you prefer to live and why? Stand and share

Fourth Grade:  Elements of non-fiction/One Grain of Rice vocabulary/How do we use math in our everyday lives? Semantic web/ I-Chart extended response writing in journals

Fifth Grade:  Revolutionary War/Northern battles chart/ I-Chart extended response writing--What events helped Washington force the British to leave Boston?/ Map activity

Wishing you all a fun-filled and relaxing Spring Break!

~Mrs. Bennick