Dear Evan's parents,

We spent a lot of time in today's lesson (Lesson 14, Task 2 - Apr 08 - Grammar) reinforcing Evan's prior knowledge of the following:

1) Combining Sentences

2) Subject Nouns

3) Predicate Nouns

4) Commas

5) Proofreading strategies

We also reviewed his latest homework submission and how his spelling was messy and how this negatively impacted his mark. He will try better next time. Thank you.

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For HOMEWORK, Evan can complete and submit the following:

Lesson 14 - Task 1 - Apr 08 - Your On-Level Reading

(Read, Record, and Submit)

1) Read p.2-14 ONLY

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful weekend and I look forward to seeing Evan next Friday.

As always, my best wishes to you all,

Mr. Grande

Dear parents,

Today's lesson was quite fun as we practiced reading a drama and your children needed to be in-character as they read. They did great!

For today's lesson, (Lesson 1, Task 1- Apr 07 - Literature book - 'King Midas...'), we worked on the following literacy concepts:

1) Pre-reading strategies (prediction) 

2) Genre - Drama

3) In-character voice/expression

4) Text Evidence (Theme)

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For HOMEWORK, your children can complete and submit the following:

Lesson 1, Task 2 - Apr 07 -Your Turn

(the following pages ONLY):

p.251, p.253-254 Pt.A, & p.257-258

Thank you.

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Enjoy your weekend and I look forward to seeing your children next Thursday.

Very best wishes,

Mr. Grande

Dear parents,

Today's lesson was taught in the positive spirit of April Fool's Day (Apr.01st) - a day of good spirited fun for all to enjoy, with a smile. I hope they enjoy April Fool's Day at school tomorrow as well.

For the lesson itself (Lesson 20, Task 2: Mar 31 - On-Level Reading), we covered the following literary concepts:

1) Pre-reading strategies

2) New Vocabulary 

3) Reading strategies

4) Decoding strategies (syllables, suffixes, and prefixes)

5) Text Evidence / Concept Clues

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For HOMEWORK, your children can complete and submit the following:

Lesson 20, Task 1: Mar 31 - Grammar

pages 122-125 (4 pages) ONLY

Thank you.

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Enjoy your week and I look forward to our next lesson together.

Very best wishes,

Mr. Grande

Dear Evan's parents,

For today's lesson (Lesson 13, Task 2 - R&W), we covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Pre-reading strategies

2) Key Vocabulary

3) Reading Fluency & Comprehension

4) New words

5) Genre: Expository (Informational) Text

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For Homework, Evan can independently complete and submit the following:

Lesson 12, Mar 11 - Week 3 Test (G3U2W3)

Thank you.

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Have a very nice weekend to the whole family.

Mr. Grande

Dear parents,

For today's lesson (Lesson 20, Task 2 - Grammar), we covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Pronoun-Verb Contractions

2) Spelling Contractions

3) Possessive Pronouns

4) Proofreading strategies

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For Homework, your child can complete and submit the following:

Lesson 20, Task 2 - On-Level Reading p.2-14

Thank you.

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Have a very nice weekend to you all.

Mr. Grande

Dear parents,

For today's lesson, I administered the last Weekly Test of Unit 5 (Lesson 19 - Mar 24 - Weekly Test - G3U5W5). 

I will send you a message for each of your children's individual results.

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For HOMEWORK, if your child has time, they can complete the following lesson:

Lesson 20 - Task 1 - On-Level Reading

Read, Record, and Submit p.2-14 ONLY

Thank you.

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Have a very good weekend to you all.

Best regards,

Mr. Grande

Dear parents,

For today's lesson (Lesson 18, Task 2 - ReadWrite), we covered the following literacy activities: 

1) Pre-read p.386-387

2) Key Vocabulary p.388-389

3) Read p.390-393

4) Cause and Effect p.395

5) Homophones p.397

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete and submit the following:

Lesson 18, Task 1 - Spelling Practice

       **** Pages: 1 - 5  ONLY ****

Thank you.

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Have a very nice weekend to all your families.

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande

Dear parents,

Today's lesson (Lesson 17, Task 1 [Literature Book], was rich with literary conventions such as:

1) Detailed pre-reading strategies

2) A wide variety of text features

3) Key vocabulary

4) Challenging reading strategies

5) Fluency & Comprehension checks

5) Genre knowledge using Expository (Informational) Text

All your children worked hard, were engaged, and participated very well, throughout the lesson. Well done to them all!

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete and submit the following lesson:

Lesson 17 Task 2 - Your Turn Practice:

ONLY pages:  241-245 and 247-248 

Thank you.

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Enjoy the rest of your March Break and I look forward to seeing your children at our next class.

Very best wishes,

Mr. Grande

Dear Evan's parents,

Evan had a very successful English language lesson (Lesson 11, Task 2 - Your Turn Practice) today.

Unfortunately Evan's Audio was unstable and it was hard to hear him (I checked all my audio systems and they were all operating normally). Can you please help Evan with his Audio issues? Thank you so much.

We covered the following literacy concepts today:

1) Key Vocabulary

2) Reading Strategies (decoding & fluency)

3) Reading Comprehension

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For HOMEWORK, can Evan please INDEPENDENTLY complete and submit the following weekly test:

Lesson 12, Mar 11 - Week 3 Test

G3U2W3

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful weekend to you all.

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande

Dear parents,

For our Fri.Mar.11th lesson (Lesson 16, Task 2 - Grammar), we covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Possessive Pronouns (PP)

2) Stand Alone PP

3) Reflexive Pronouns

We also practiced our reading strategies with Lesson 16, Task 1 - On-Level Reading.

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please READ, RECORD, then SUBMIT the following lesson:

Lesson 16, Task 1 - On-Level Reading

pages 2-14 ONLY

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful weekend to you all.

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande

Hello parents,

For today's lesson, your children were administered the Unit 5, Lesson 15, Week 4 Test.

As this is now Unit 5, the curriculum is more challenging as are the assessments. Regardless of their test results, all your children worked very hard to determine the correct answers and to write their paragraphs with strong organization of thought, correct structure, and excellent detail. I am very proud of all your children. This was not an easy assessment. Very well done to them all.

p.s.: If you would like your child to work towards a better mark on this test, please have them independently complete the test again and submit it to the ANEE portal for my evaluation. Thank you.

Note: I will be individually messaging you with your child's test results from today.

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For HOMEWORK, can your please Read, Record and Submit the following:

Lesson 16, Task 1 (On-Level Reading)

***PAGES 2-14 ONLY***

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful weekend to you all and enjoy your March Break!

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande

Dear Evan's parents,

Evan did very well throughout yesterday's (Fri.Mar.04th) lesson (Lesson 10, Task 1 [Grammar]). He was engaged, motivated, and when prompted, able to communicate his English language knowledge at a high level. I am very proud of how well he completed last weeks homework. I hope to see the same quality of homework submissions from now on, if not higher (I explained this to Evan and he said that he can do it!). Great! We covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Irregular Plural Nouns

2) Collective Nouns

3) Proofreading Strategies

4) Special Nouns

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For HOMEWORK, can Evan please complete and submit the following:

Lesson 10, Task 2 [On-Level Reading]:

- Read pages 1-14 ONLY

**(Evan must not read quickly. Evan must read with excellent fluency, paying attention to punctuation and pronunciation. Thank you).

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Thank you and enjoy your weekend.

My very best wishes are with the whole family.

Mr. Grande

Dear parents,

For yesterday's (Fri.Mar.04th) lesson (Lesson 14, Task 2 [R&W]), we covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Pre-read strategies p.372-373

2) Vocabulary p.374-375

3) Reading strategies p.376-380

4) Author's Point of View p.381

5) Genre: Biography/Autobiography p.382

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete and submit the following:

Lesson 14, Task 1 [Spelling Practice]

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Thank you and enjoy your weekend.

My very best wishes are with the whole family.

Mr. Grande

Dear parents,

Today, we covered a very important topic about Women's Rights. We read the story of Elizabeth Cody Stanton in Lesson 13, Task 1 (Literature Book). We covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Pre-reading strategies p.432

2) Reading strategies p.433-449

- Text Feature: Illustrations

3) Respond to Reading p.451

- Point of View Chart

- Key Detail / Text Evidence.

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete and submit the following:

Lesson 13, Task 2 [Your Turn]

- p.231, p.233-234, p.235 (pt.A), and p.236-238

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Thank you. Have a wonderful weekend to you all.

My very best wishes are with your whole family.

Mr. Grande

Dear parents,

For today's lesson (Lesson 12, Task 1 - On-level Reading), we covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Pre-reading strategies p.1

2) Reading strategies p.2-14

3) Respond to Reading p.15

     - Summarize (Point of View)

     - Text Evidence (Genre/Expository; Sentence Clues)

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete and submit the following:

Lesson 12, Task 2 (Grammar)

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Thank you. Have a wonderful weekend to the whole family.

Mr. Grande

Dear Evan's parents,

Today's lesson was focused on Evan's very poor homework efforts. 

For today's lesson, Evan had to REDO his homework. He must learn that if he does not do his homework correctly and carefully, the FIRST time, he must REDO it, a SECOND time - therefore DOUBLE the work. 

As Evan worked to improve the effort and quality of his homework during our lesson, I showed him how much more his 45% homework evaluation would increase, with his extra effort and increased quality of work. He ended the lesson with a homework evaluation of 79%!!! A 34% increase!

I explained to Evan that every time he does poorly on his homework, he will have to redo it again in class until he gets a better evaluation mark. I explained to him that because he is such an intelligent boy, he should be getting school work results in the B and A Range, ALWAYS! I hope he learned this important academic and LIFE lesson well enough during this class. If not, we will continue to REDO his homework when poorly completed.

I do hope that you approve of this teaching and learning approach with Evan. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact Mrs.Ling Song and myself, at any time. Thank you.

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For HOMEWORK, Evan must complete the following test and lesson, AT A HIGH LEVEL of QUALITY and EFFORT, and if he doesn't, unfortunately, he will once again have to REDO this homework during our NEXT CLASS:

1) Lesson 8 - Week 2 Test (G3U2W2.PDF)

2) Lesson 8, Task 1 (Spelling Practice)

               - p.45-46, p.47 part A

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This is MORE HOMEWORK then I would usually assign Evan however this is ANOTHER CONSEQUENCE for his POOR HOMEWORK EFFORT!

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Evan's mother and father - I have explained many life consequences to Evan because of poor effort choices, such as: getting into a GREAT University; a JOB he REALLY WANTS; a GAME he really wants to play; a HOBBY he really wants to get better at; in MAKING ENOUGH MONEY to do all the FUN things he wants to do in life. There are many other areas in life that are impacted by POOR EFFORT of course but these examples are more than enough. As you can see, I do care for Evan and ALL that he is learning. He is a sweet boy and so very intelligent.

I hope that you agree, in some way, with my thoughts. If so, I ask that you reinforce these important messages, at home. Evan is a VERY SMART boy and he should be TRYING to work towards his HIGHEST POTENTIAL, with HIGH QUALITY work in EVERYTHING he does - he should always TRY to put in his BEST EFFORT. As long as he TRULY TRIES, that is most certainly good enough. He has the potential to achieve GREAT things in his life, I can see that of him. It is VERY SAD when he does not achieve his potential with his school work. I care about his academic success and his life success, and I know he has great potential to do wonderful things and to have a rich and rewarding life. Thank you very much for reinforcing these very important LIFE lessons with Evan.

Mr. Grande

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Thank you. Have a wonderful weekend and see you next Friday.

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande

Dear parents,

For today's lesson, we worked on test-taking strategies using the following test:

Unit 5, Lesson 11, Week 3 Test (G3U5W3)

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For HOMEWORK, please have your children complete the above test and submit it for my evaluation. Thank you.

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Many of your children have almost completed the above test in class today. Therefore, you may wish for them to have EXTRA HOMEWORK to do. If so, they can complete the following lesson: 

Lesson 12, Task 1 (On-Level Reading):

p. 2-14 ONLY

Read, Record, then Submit

(This EXTRA HOMEWORK is optional).

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To all of you, please enjoy your weekend and continue to be in good health and in good spirits. 

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande

Dear parents,

Your children all had a very good lesson today. They were all motivated to succeed in their learning throughout the lesson and there was strong engagement with the literacy concepts being covered. Great job to all your children, thank you!

For today's lesson (Lesson 10, Task 2 [R&W]), we covered the following concepts:

1) Pre-reading strategies

2) Key Vocabulary

3) Reading strategies

3) Author's Point of View

4) Genre: Expository Text

5) Sentence Clues

6) Key Details

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete the following lesson:

Lesson 10, Task 1 [Spelling Practice]

- p. 133-137

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Thank you. Enjoy your weekend.

My very best wishes are with the whole family.

Mr. Grande

Dear Evan's parents,

Evan had a very good lesson today. He was motivated to succeed throughout the lesson and he asked for clarification whenever he did not understand a concept fully. This is a wonderful learning attribute and it will significantly strengthen Evan's overall learning success. Keep up the good work Evan!

For today's lesson (Lesson 7, Task 2 [Literature Book]), we covered the following concepts:

1) Pre-reading strategies

2) Reading strategies

3) Summarize: Theme Chart

4) Genre: Historical Fiction

5) Theme

6) Similes

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For HOMEWORK, can Evan please complete the following lesson:

Lesson 7, Task 1 [Your Turn Practice]

- p.61, p.63-68, and p.70

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Thank you. Enjoy your weekend.

My very best wishes are with the whole family.

Mr. Grande

Dear parents,

For today's lesson (Lesson 9, Task 1 - Literature Book), we covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Reading Strategies p.416-427

2) Respond to Reading p.429

- Summarize (Point of View)

- Text Evidence

- Genre: Expository Text

- Text Features

- Context Clues

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete:

Lesson 9, Task 2 - Your Turn - p.1-10

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Thank you. Have a wonderful weekend to you all.

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande