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 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

Hello once again parents,

I've noticed that some of your children have already completed L10-Task 1 (My apologies - in my earlier Note, I wrote Task 31). If you would like your child to best prepare for tomorrow's lesson, they can do L10 - Task 3. 

Thank you.

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 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,

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,

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 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 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 Evan's parents,

For today's lesson, we covered the following literacy concepts from Lesson 15, Task 1 - Apr 15 - Literature Book:

1) Pre-reading strategies

2) Key Vocabulary 

3) Reading strategies

4) Respond to Reading

5) Genre: Expository/Informational Text

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

Lesson 15, Task 2 - Apr 15 - Your Turn Practice

p.81, p.83-85 Pt.A, p.86-88 ONLY

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful long weekend to the whole family.

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande

Dear Evan's parents,

Evan had a very busy and full lesson today. We covered many literacy components as well as learning strategies, using Anchor Charts, that will reinforce his learning and help him become more successful with his language results. He worked hard and did very well today. Great work today Evan, I am very proud of you!

For today's lesson, we did a homework review and covered the following lesson - Lesson 17, Task 2 - Apr 22 - R&W:

1) Reading Comprehension 

- Grade 5 Level Expectations

- Sentence Frames

- Proofreading for simple errors

- Text Features (Anchor Charts)

- Text Evidence strategies

2) Pre-reading strategies

3) Key Vocabulary

4) Reading strategies

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For HOMEWORK, can Evan please complete the following:

1) Lesson 17, Task 1 - Apr 22 - Spelling Practice

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful weekend to the whole family and I look forward to my Friday lesson with Evan.

Very best regards to you all,

Mr. Grande

Dear parents,

Today's lesson was focused on diagnostic directed activities which benchmarked where your children currently are in their English language learning with the G3 Wonders curriculum. All your children are currently At Grade Level or higher, which is ideal. Thank you for all the support you provide your children to succeed in their learning.

For today's lesson (Lesson 9, Task 1 - R&W [G3U6W3] and Lesson 9, Task 2 - Spelling Practice), we covered the following:

1) Pre-reading strategies

2) Key Vocabulary

3) Complex Sentence Frames

4) Reading strategies

5) Reading Fluency and Comprehension

6) Vocabulary Definition Challenge

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

1) Lesson 8, Apr 28 - Weekly Test (G3U6W2)

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful weekend to all your families and I look forward to our next lesson together.

Very best regards to you all,

Mr. Grande

Dear G3 Parents,

Please continue to encourage your children to participate in class and to take risks with the curriculum. When they do so, the potential for what level of learning they can achieve, is limitless. Thank you for the wonderful support, you provide your children, in their learning. 

We successfully covered many components of Grammar in today's Lesson 11, Task 2, activities.

For Homework (Lesson 11, Task 1), please have your children complete and submit, the following:

1) Read, 'Gary the Dreamer'.

2) Complete, 'Respond to Reading' - p.71.

3) Add an unfamiliar Word to their, 'My Wonder's Dictionary'.

Thank you once again.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

For today's lesson, we worked on the Unit 4, Week 2, Lesson 8, Nov 18, Weekly Test.

For homework, can your children, please complete all or some of the following and then submit before our next class:

1) Lesson 9, Task 1 (Spelling Practice) 

- Complete then Submit

Thank you and have a wonderful weekend to the whole family.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

For today's lesson (Lesson 10, Task 1 - Apr 29 - Your Turn), we covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Key Vocabulary

2) Reading Fluency & Comprehension

3) Level 4 ('A') Sentence Frames

4) Text Features

5) Text Evidence

6) Key Details

7) Genre: Biography

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

1) Lesson 10, Task 2 - Apr 29 - Literature book - pages 506-510 ONLY

- Read, Record, & Submit (vocaroo.com)

2) Lesson 8, Apr 28 - Weekly Test (G3U6W2)

* Independently complete.

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful weekend to the whole family and I look forward to our next Friday's lesson.

Respectfully,

Mr. Grande

Dear parents,

For today's lesson, we worked on the Unit 4, Lesson 7, Task 2 (Grammar) - Contrations.

For homework, can your children, please complete all or some of the following and then submit before our next class:

1) Lesson 7, Task 1 (On-Level Reading) 

- Read, Record, then Submit

Thank you and have a wonderful week to the whole family.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

For today's lesson, we worked on Lesson 9, Task 2 (RJ&W).

We covered the following literary components:

1) Text Features p.286

2) Key Vocabulary p.288-289

3) Reading Strategies p.290-293

4) Compare & Contrast Organizer p.295

5) Genre - Expository Text p.296

6) Sentence Clues p.297

For homework, can your children, please complete all or some of the following and then submit before our next class:

1) Lesson 9, Task 1 (Spelling Practice) 

- Complete then Submit

Thank you and have a wonderful week to the whole family.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

For today's lesson, we worked on Lesson 9, Task 2 (R&W). We covered the following literary components:

1) Vocabulary p.288-289

2) Reading Strategies p.290-293

3) Compare and Contrast Organizer p.295

4) Genre - Expository Text p.296

For homework, can your children, please complete all or some of the following and then submit before our next class:

1) Lesson 9, Task 1 (Spelling Practice) 

- Complete then Submit

Thank you and have a wonderful week to the whole family.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

All your children were on time to class today and they all participated exceptionally well throughout the lesson. Wonderful! Thank you very much for your excellent support of your child's learning.

For today's lesson (Lesson 11 - Task 2 - May 05 - Grammar), we covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Adverbs (How, Where, & When)

2) Adjectives

3) Proofreading strategies

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

1) Lesson 12 - May 05 - Weekly Test

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful weekend to all your families and my very best wishes to you all.

Mr. Grande

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Question 3-6 this week.