Dear Parents,

Your children had another successful lesson today. We covered many of the components for Reading Strategies and Grammar Rules. 

If you and your child are able to complete the following homework before tomorrow's class, it would be very much appreciated and important for my lesson planning for your child's learning gaps. Thank you.

Homework:

Reading - Task 1

- Read: p.17-19

- Answer: Connect Questions - p.19

Grammar - Task 2

-  Complete: p.2-4

Have a wonderful evening to you all.

Best regards,

Mr. Grande.

Dear Parents,

It was very nice to meet and teach your child today.

For today's lesson, we covered the following:

1) Online Classroom Rules and Expectations

2) In Class Activities - Task 1 and/or Task 2

3) Assigned Homework Expectations

No Homework was assigned today however starting tomorrow, for our Lesson 2, I will be assigning Homework.

Homework completion is important for my Lesson Planning. It is a Diagnostic Tool to help reveal Learning Gaps your child may have which I can plan for and then address in class.

A) Homework is to be completed to the best of your child's ability.

B) If your child doesn't have time to complete the Homework, please Submit the Homework as is, with that reason of, 'No Time to Complete', noted on the Homework sheet. This will guide my Lesson Planning for your child.

C) If your child is unsure of anything given for Homework, leave it Blank OR help your child with the respective challenging activity and note that you assisted your child, onto the Homework sheet. This will guide my Lesson Planning for your child.

If you have any questions, you can message me through the ANEE website or contact ANEE and they can pass on your message to me.

Thank you very much for choosing ANEE. Your child's academic success is my/our focus.

Have a very good evening to you all.

Best regards,

Mr. D. Grande.

Homework, Page 1-2

Question 3-6 this week.

Dear parents,

For today's lesson, the Unit 2, Week 2, Lesson 8 Weekly Test was administered. It remains unfinished so we will complete it at the beginning of tomorrow's lesson. 

For homework, to the best of their ability, can your children please complete the following Lesson 7, Task 2, activities:

1) Grammar p.61, p.67-68

2) 'My Wonder's Dictionary' - one or two word entries.

Thank you and as always, have a very good evening to you all.

Mr. Grande.

I made a mistake I uploaded the wrong file, but I did the recording. I can't upload it again. 

Dear Parents,

Hopefully this Literary Elements chart will be a good resource for your child's English class. Thank you. Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

We have completed our first week of ANEE English G3 - Unit 2.

Today, we covered Lesson 3, Task 4, in class. We covered the following:

1) Read p.1-15 (Reading Strategies and Vocabulary Building)

2) Completed p.16 (Summarize - Detail)

For homework, please have your child independently complete the Unit 2 - Lesson 4 Weekly Test and then submit before Monday's class. Thank you.

Please Note: your child's 'My Wonder's Dictionary', should have four to eight new word entries for this week's Vocabulary Building exercise. 

Thank you and have a very good weekend. 

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents. Please have your child independently complete and submit their L20 Test before Friday's [08/14/20] class. Thank you so much. Mr. Grande.

Dear parents. Please have your child independently complete and submit their L20 Test before Friday's [08/14/20] class. Thank you so much. Mr. Grande.

Dear parents. Please have your child independently complete and submit their L20 Test before Friday's [08/14/20] class. Thank you so much. Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

We completed Lesson 19, Task 2, p.46-49 (text features, compound words), in class today.

For homework and to the best of their ability, your children are to independently complete the Lesson 20, Week 5 Test and submit. Thank you. 

Also, by the end of this week, your child should have 4-8 word entries in their Wonder's Dictionary. 

Thank you and have a very good weekend.

Mr. Grande.

p.s.: today's Text Feature lesson was challenging for some of your children. Therefore, I've attached an anchor chart here to assist them throughout the Unit. Please print it out for them and attach it into their notebooks. Thank you very much.

Dear parents,

To keep you updated with our lessons, we covered the following literary concepts:

1) Cause and Effect

2) Genre

3) Metaphors

4) Reviewed Sequence/Order of Events

Thank you. 

Have a wonderful weekend to you all.

Sincerely,

Mr. Grande.

Hello again parents,

Figurative Language can be challenging for primary students. Similes are very similiar to Metaphors, so I've attached some information regarding the difference between them:

Thank you.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

There were some challenging literary concepts in L14 - cause and effect, genres, metaphors,

etc. (I've attached some helpful concept charts above). We covered Metaphors in today's lesson and all the children said they now understand this concept (fyi). We will be going over these challenging concepts during tomorrow's lesson and I thank those parents who did comment on their child's homework submissions whenever their child had literary concept difficulties. These comments are truly appreciated in my lesson planning. Have a wonderful evening to you all.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

It has been a joy and an honour to teach your children during the July 2021 session of the ANEE Wonders Program.

I truly hope your children enjoyed and academically benefited from their time with me, in our online classrooms. 

It would be a true pleasure to be their teacher in our August 2021 session of the ANEE Wonders Program. 

If I do not have the opportunity to teach them in August 2021, I wish them much academic success and happiness, for the start of the new school year in September 2021.

To all of you, and your family and friends, please keep well, stay safe and healthy, and my best regards are with you always.

Sincerely,

Mr. Grande.

p.s.: in class today, we had our Week 4 Test and I will message you your child's individual results over this upcoming weekend. 

p.s.s.: your children have not been assigned any further homework for the July 2021 ANEE Wonders Program. Have a wonderful Civic Holiday weekend!

Dear parents,

I truly hope you are all enjoying this beautiful long weekend, with your families. 

This is just a quick note regarding our preclass homework for our Tue.Aug.4/20 class.

If your child is unable to complete the preclass homework, due to your busy long weekend, that is understandable and not a problem.

If you are able to complete it, it is L13, Task 1. Thank you.

Please be safe, healthy, and happy, to you all.

My best regards to you all.

Mr. Grande.

Dear G3 Parents,

For homework, can you please ensure that your children independently complete the following:

1) Lesson 12 Weekly Test

Please submit this test prior to Monday's class.

Also, please remind your child to write their Question 21 answer, using the Hamburger Paragraph Writing strategy we learned in class. 

Thank you so very much.

p.s.: if you wish your children to complete more homework then I have assigned, please do so and submit. I will review all homework submitted. This past week's tasks are from lessons 8-11.

Important - please remember to only have your children complete extra homework that they have literary knowledge about and which they can successfully and accurately apply to their work.

If they do work that is unfamiliar to them, it will only confuse the concepts they are learning, creating learning gaps and poor knowledge acquisition and therefore negative scaffolding scenarios occur which impact future concept learning. To unlearn poor knowledge acquisition is very difficult to do.

Thank you for your understanding.

Have a wonderful weekend to you all.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

As I review and informally assess all your children's homework and in class work, to inform my lesson preparations and to take note of areas of literacy development which require further instruction and/or review. Today's class covered the following curriculum components:

1) Correct Expression of a Numerical Year

2) Short and Long Vowel Sounds (bossy 'e' rule)

3) Reading Flency Practice

4) Text Comprehension using Text Evidence - Lesson Questions

5) Review Text Features (Caption)

6) Show and Tell / Show and Share - Presentation Practice: eye contact with the audience; clear articulation/enunciation, appropriate volume; and visuals (props, realia) are visible and effectively incorporated into the presentation.

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The following are curriculum components which are in need of knowledge acquisition reinforcement however we were unable to cover in today's class due to time allowances. I ask that you please take note of the following while working with your child:

1) Each text feature is a 'name' of that text feature so it does need to be capitalized in your child's homework (e.g., Captions, Headings/Titles, Index, etc.). Thank you.

2) Text evidence is any information from the text which supports your child's understanding of a comprehension question from the lesson or from our class discussions. Usually related to comprehension clarity and the '5 Ws and H' of inquiry: What, Where, Why, When, Who, and How. Thank you.

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Homework for L12 tomorrow: 

I ask that your child independently completes the L12 Test to be submitted before tomorrow's class. This will allow me to authentically assess your child's English language knowledge, understanding, application, and communciation, so as to best inform my lesson preparations to address literacy needs for your child and for all the children in the classroom. Thank you.

There also is homework outlined as 'Task.3:L11 Homework-Download & Submit your Beyond Reading'. It is the 'Judy Baca' homework which all the children have already submitted. If you wish your child to do this homework again as well as the L12 Test, I leave that with you. If you choose not to have your child recomplete the 'Judy Baca' homework, that is perfectly fine. I have already compiled areas of literary need from your children's homework submission and in class informal evaluations, which I have or will incorporate into our lessons. If you choose to have your child complete this 'Judy Baca' homework, it would be a review and reinforcement of literacy knowledge your child currently has acquired, which is extra practice that I never discourage ('practice makes perfect' as they say).

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Hopefully my note is clear and helpful (yes, still extensive - my apologies). Please inform Principal Amy if you have any further questions you would like me to address, to you or in class with your children, within my lessons. Thank you very much for your ongoing support and encouragement of your child's learning.

It is the long weekend so I hope you have lovely plans with your families. Of course, please continue to be healthy and safe. 

With my best regards. Mr. Grande.

Hello parents. 

I hope you are all doing well and that you are satisfied with the lessons your children are having with me so far. Your feedback is always appreciated so please add any of your thoughts to your children's homework when you submit it. Thank you.

For today's lesson we covered challenging literary components such as:

1) Paragraph Structure: topic sentence, detail sentences, and concluding sentence.

2) Paragraph Indenting.

3) Word Count Accuracy Exercise.

4) Text Features.

5) Draft Modeling/Rough Copy, expectations.

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For HW tomorrow, please complete the Pre-Reading L11 - Task 1 and please focus on the reading portion of this homework. You can of course, complete the written portion if you have time, thank you. We will cover the written portion tomorrow.

Parents, you may find some lesson tasks duplicate other lesson tasks, to some extent. I would recommend that if you come across this in the lesson pre-class or post-class tasks, you can do both completely (for extra practice and mastering literacy development - if you have time) or only complete the portions of the tasks that your child has not completed already. Thank you. 

Please refer to attached documents below to help inform you of literary components covered in our classes and more details of my instructional practice:

Thank you all once again for your loving encouragement and support of your child's learning. This is truly a valuable gift to them, on the highest order, as they develop into successful, happy, hard working adults in so many areas of their lives (as you know, of course). It is a true pleasure to be your dear child's teacher, in this brief time that I have with them. Thank you. Have a wonderful evening to you all.

Sincerely, Mr. Grande.