Thursday, March 6th, 2025 

Dear Phoeby's parents,

Phoeby was excellent in class tonight, and her answers were accurate.

WHAT WE COVERED IN TODAY'S CLASS

In today's lesson, we covered the following literacy concepts and strategies from the renowned comic series entitled "Dog Man, Third Novel, Chapter 10: Three Endings”:

• Key / New vocabulary, collocations and idioms
• Exploring hang-gliding and wing-suit flying extreme sports
• Predictions and comparisons
• Connections: Text-to-self, Text-to-world

HOMEWORK

For homework, if Phoeby has time please complete homework in Lesson 25 - Book Report.

Warm wishes, and all the best for the entire family for the week ahead.

Kind regards,

Teacher Philip

Thursday, February 27th, 2025 

Dear Phoeby's parents,

Phoeby expressed herself well tonight, and did remarkably well predicting the storyline from pictural extracts of the unit.

WHAT WE COVERED IN TODAY'S CLASS

In today's lesson, we covered the following literacy concepts and strategies from the renowned comic series entitled "Dog Man, Third Novel, Chapter 9: Big Fight”:

• Key / New vocabulary, collocations and idioms
• Connections: Text-to-self, Text-to-world
• Predictions and comparisons

HOMEWORK

For homework, if Phoeby has time please complete homework in Lesson 24 - Book Report.

Warm wishes, and all the best for the entire family for the week ahead.

Kind regards,

Teacher Philip

Thursday, February 20th, 2024 

Dear Phoeby's parents,

Phoeby picked up the concepts and lexicon very quickly, and expressed her dream cake very well!

WHAT WE COVERED IN TODAY'S CLASS

In today's lesson, we covered the following literacy concepts and strategies from the renowned comic series entitled "Dog Man, Third Novel, Chapter 8: The French Dressing Revolution”:

• Key / New vocabulary, collocations and idioms: revolution 革命 , go after, save the day, be the hero, beastly, ran out of (dressing), passed away, look out
• Connections: Text-to-self, Text-to-world
• Predictions and comparisons

HOMEWORK

For homework, if Phoeby has time please complete homework in Lesson 23 - Book Report.

Warm wishes, and all the best for the entire family for the week and weekend ahead.

Kind regards,

Teacher Philip

Thursday, November 28th, 2024 

Dear Phoeby's parents,

Phoeby did great job with her writing assignment for homework, which we reviewed. She also picked up the target language and ideas quickly. Excellent job!

WHAT WE COVERED IN TODAY'S CLASS

In today's lesson, we covered the following literacy concepts and strategies from the renowned comic series entitled "Dog Man, Third  Novel, Chapter 3: The Six Thousand Dollar Fish!"

1. Key / New vocabulary, collocations and idioms: bionics, half-man, half-machine, 
2. Exploring idioms and collocation phrases
3. Explored the precedent for this story from the classic TV show called The Six Million Dollar Man.
4. Connections: Text-to-self, Text-to-world
5. Predictions and comparisions

HOMEWORK

For homework, if Phoeby has time please complete homework in Lesson 18 - Book Report.

Warm wishes, and all the best for the entire family.

Kind regards,
Teacher Philip
 

Dear Phoeby's parents,

Phoeby did well and picked up the plot, key ideas, themes and target language. Great job!

WHAT WE COVERED IN TODAY'S CLASS

In today's lesson, we covered the following literacy concepts and strategies from the renowned comic series entitled "Dog Man, Third  Novel, Chapter 2: You've Gotta be Kitten me!"

1. Key / New vocabulary, collocations and idioms: tunnel, dusk, dawn, eve, reek
2. Connections: Text-to-self, Text-to-world
3. Predictions and comparisions
4. cat litter 猫砂盆, sandbox 沙箱, clone 克隆, cloning, DNA holds our genetics 保存着我们的基因, floating helium 氦 balloons, lab (laboratory 实验室), 
5. Exploring idioms and collocation phrases: "make it up to", "you're kidding me"

HOMEWORK

For homework, if Phoeby has time please complete homework in Lesson 17 - Book Report.

Warm wishes, and all the best for the entire family. Also, I wish Phoeby's sister a fantastic birthday party this Saturday!

Kind regards,
Teacher Philip
 

Thursday, October 31st, 2024 

Dear Phoeby's parents,

Phoeby picked up the target language and ideas quickly in tonight's class. Great work!

WHAT WE COVERED IN TODAY'S CLASS

In today's lesson, we covered the following literacy concepts and strategies from the renowned comic series entitled "Dog Man, Second Novel, Chapter 11: A Tale Of Two Kitties":

1. Literary Comparisons to Charles Dicken's classic  "A Tale of Two Cities": paralleled the two stories of the jailed French Doctor with a daughter to Petey the cat with his kitten
2. Key / New vocabulary, collocations and idioms: tunnel, dusk, dawn, eve, reek
3. Cohesive devices: reviewed key ideas of previous chapters and connection between chapters in comics
4. Connections: Text-to-self, Text-to-world
5. Predictions: Before Reading

HOMEWORK

For homework, if Phoeby has time please complete homework in Lesson 15 - Book Report.

Warm wishes, and all the best for the entire family.

Kind regards,
Teacher Philip
 

Thursday, October 24th, 2024 

Dear Phoeby's parents,

Phoeby as usual was very focused and picked up the target language and ideas quickly. Well done!

WHAT WE COVERED IN TODAY'S CLASS

In today's lesson, we covered the following literacy concepts and strategies from the renowned comic series entitled "Dog Man, Second Novel, Chapter 10: An Ice Ending:
Key conceptual foundation themes:

1. Identification, clues pre-reading and post-reading
2. Key / New vocabulary, collocations and idioms: monkey business, trouble-maker; adventures; flatten
3. Reviewed key ideas of previous chapters
4. Connections and comparisons: Text-to-self, Text-to-world
5. Predictions

HOMEWORK

For homework, if Phoeby has time please complete homework in Lesson 14 - Book Report.

Warm wishes, and all the best for the entire family.

Kind regards,
Teacher Philip
 

Thursday, October 17th, 2024 

Dear Phoeby's parents,

Phoeby did really well and picked up the new concepts and target language very quickly! She is a fantastic student and has so much potential in English!

WHAT WE COVERED IN TODAY'S CLASS

In today's lesson, we covered the following literacy concepts and strategies from the renowned comic series entitled "Dog Man, Second Novel, Chapter 9 - The Mysterious Stranger Returns":

1. Key conceptual foundation themes: identification, clues pre-reading and post-reading
2. Key / New vocabulary, collocations and idioms
3. Reviewed key ideas of previous chapters: cohesiveness and threads
4. Predictions
5. Connections and comparisons: Text-to-self, Text-to-world

HOMEWORK

For homework, if Phoeby has time please complete homework in Lesson 13- Book Report.

Warm wishes, and all the best for the entire family.

Kind regards,

Teacher Philip

Thursday, September 19th, 2024 

Dear Phoeby's parents,

Phoeby picked up the target language and all the literacy ideas and strategies quickly. Well done!

WHAT WE COVERED IN TODAY'S CLASS

In today's lesson, we covered the following literacy concepts and strategies from the renowned comic series entitled "Dog Man, Second Novel, Chapter Six, A Buncha Stuff that Happened Next:

1. Key conceptual foundation themes: identification, clues pre-reading and post-reading
2. Key / New vocabulary, collocations and idioms: crook 小偷, treasure chests 宝箱, made out of bark/plastic/wood
3. imposter 冒名顶替者, impersonating 冒充 
4. Reviewed key ideas of previous chapters: cohesiveness and threads
5. Predictions
6. Connections and comparisons: Text-to-self, Text-to-world

HOMEWORK

For homework, if Phoeby has time please complete homework in Lesson 10 - Book Report.

Warm wishes, and all the best for the entire family.

Kind regards,

Teacher Philip

Thursday, September 5th, 2024 

Dear Phoeby's parents,

Phoeby as usual was very focused and picked up the target language and ideas quickly. Well done!

WHAT WE COVERED IN TODAY'S CLASS

In today's lesson, we covered the following literacy concepts and strategies from the renowned comic series entitled "Dog Man, Second Novel, Chapter Four: The Big Robbery":

1. Key conceptual foundation themes: identification, clues pre-reading and post-reading
2. Key / New vocabulary, collocations and idioms:
3. Reviewed key ideas of previous chapters: cohesiveness and threads
4. Cohesive devices: scanning and skimming picking up details that connect the chapters
5. Connections and comparisons: Text-to-self, Text-to-world
6. Predictions

HOMEWORK

For homework, if Phoeby has time please complete homework in Lesson 08 - Book Report.

Warm wishes, and all the best for the entire family.

Kind regards,

Teacher Philip

Thursday, August 22nd, 2024 

Dear Phoeby's parents,

Phoeby did really well in class. We worked on her vocabulary and pronunciation and also some common colloquial collocations. Great job!

WHAT WE COVERED IN TODAY'S CLASS

In today's lesson, we covered the following literacy concepts and strategies from the ELSCO course lesson entitled Dog Man, Second Novel, Chapter Two: Penelope's Pets":

1. Key conceptual foundation themes: identification, clues pre-reading and post-reading
2. Key / New vocabulary, collocations and idioms
3. Exploring the ideas around distractions
4. Cohesive devices: connection with the previous chapter on the Secret Meeting
5. Connections and comparisons: Text-to-self, Text-to-world
6. Predictions

HOMEWORK

For homework, if Phoeby has time please complete homework in Lesson 06 - Book Report.

Have a wonderful week ahead and I look forward to seeing Phoeby again.

Warm wishes, and all the best for the entire family.

Kind regards,

Teacher Philip

Thursday, August 29th, 2024 

Dear Phoeby's parents,

Phoeby as usual was very focused and picked up the target language and ideas quickly. Well done!

WHAT WE COVERED IN TODAY'S CLASS

In today's lesson, we covered the following literacy concepts and strategies from the renowned comic series entitled "Dog Man, Second Novel, Chapter Three: Happy Birthday Chief":

1. Key conceptual foundation themes: identification, clues pre-reading and post-reading
2. Key / New vocabulary, collocations and idioms; making a mess, made a mess of (the cake); reporter; journalist; newsworthy; Big News
3. Reviewed key ideas of previous chapters: cohesiveness
4. Cohesive devices: connection with the previous chapter on The Secret Meeting and Penelope's Pets
5. Connections and comparisons: Text-to-self, Text-to-world
6. Predictions

HOMEWORK

For homework, if Phoeby has time please complete homework in Lesson 07 - Book Report.

Warm wishes, and all the best for the entire family.

Kind regards,

Teacher Philip

Thursday, August 15th, 2024 

Dear Phoeby's parents,

Phoeby did really well in class. She worked hard throughout today's lesson. However, we need to work more on increasing her vocabulary, speaking and writing skills, collocations and lexical library. Phoeby is such a joy to teach!

WHAT WE COVERED IN TODAY'S CLASS:

In today's lesson, we covered the following literacy concepts and strategies from the ELSCO course lesson entitled Lesson 05: Dog Man, Second Novel, Unleashed, The Secret Meeting":

1. Key conceptual foundation themes: identification, clues pre-reading and post-reading
2. Key / New vocabulary, collocations and idioms: cut it out, it's settled
3. Exploring the ideas around surprise birthday parties
4. Connections and comparisons: Text-to-self, Text-to-world

HOMEWORK

For homework, if Phoeby has time please complete homework in Lesson 05 - Book Report.

Warm wishes, and all the best for the entire family.

Kind regards,

Teacher Philip

Thursday, July 25th, 2024

Dear Phoeby's parents,

Phoeby did really well in class. She worked hard throughout today's lesson. However, we need to work more on increasing her vocabulary, speaking and writing skills, collocations and lexical library. 

WHAT WE COVERED IN TODAY'S CLASS:

In today's lesson, we covered the following literacy concepts and strategies from the ELSCO course lesson entitled Lesson 03: Dog Man, Book'Em:

1. Key conceptual foundation themes: identification, clues pre-reading and post-reading
2. Key / New vocabulary, collocations and idioms: outsmarts, secret stash of books,
3. disruptive 破坏性的, zapper, elementary, school/ high school/ college/university, creative streak, book them, fed up, it stinks
4. Exploring the idea of being “booked" and an "escape plan"
5. Connections and comparisons: Text-to-self, Text-to-world

HOMEWORK

For homework, if Phoeby has time please complete homework in Lesson 03 - Book Report.

Have a wonderful week ahead and I look forward to seeing Phoeby again.Warm wishes, and all the best for the entire family.

Kind regards,

Teacher Philip