Dear parents,

We are now in our second week of Unit 2 ANEE English G2. 

Today, we completed Lesson 6, Task 2 in class today. We covered the following:

1) Grammar p.31-35 (Singular/Plural Nouns, Nouns in a Series, Commas, And/Or)

For homework, to the best of their ability, can your children please complete the following Lesson 6, Task 1, activities:

1) Read Aloud, Record, and Submit p.1-15. 

2) 'Respond to Reading' p.16 (Text Evidence Q1-3)

3) My Wonder's Dictionary' - one word entry.

Thank you and have a very good evening.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

We are beginning the second week of Unit 2 - ANEE English G2. 

Today, we completed the Unit 2, Lesson 4 Weekly Test. 

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

1) Lesson 5, Task 1:

     - Spelling Practice p.31-34

2) Lesson 5, Task 2:

     - Vocabulary p.116-117

3) 'My Wonder's Dictionary' - one word entry.

Thank you and have a very good evening.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

We have completed our first week of ANEE English G2 - Unit 2.

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

1) Read p. 388-407 (Reading Strategies, Decoding Words - syllables, and Vocabulary Building)

2) Completed p.409 - Summarize Review and Suffixes ('-ful' - wonderful - full of wonder)

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 new word entries for this week's Vocabulary Building exercise. 

Thank you and have a very good weekend. 

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

We have begun Unit 2 of ANEE English G2, this week. 

We completed Lesson 3, Task 1 in class today. We covered the following:

1) p.51-52 (Vocabulary and Grammar: Before adding -ed or -ing to some verbs with short vowels, double the final consonant. Before adding -ed or -ing to some verbs with long vowels ending in e, drop the final e.

2) p.58-59 (Genre and Prefixes: un-; re-; dis-).

For homework, to the best of their ability, can your children please complete the following Lesson 3, Task 2, activities:

1) Read p.110-129

2) Complete p.131, Q1-3

3) 'My Wonder's Dictionary' - one word entry.

Thank you and have a very good evening.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

We are now beginning Unit 2 of ANEE English G2. 

Since last week's Lesson 20, Week 5 Test was not completed and submitted by your children, we completed this Weekly Test in class today. A personal message has been sent to you with your child's test results. Thank you.

For today's homework, to the best of their ability, can your children please complete the following Lesson 2 activities:

A) Task 1

1) On-Level Reading (read, record, and submit).

B) Task 2

1) Grammar p.26-28

C) 'My Wonder's Dictionary' - one word entry.

Thank you and have a very good evening.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

We are now beginning Unit 2 of ANEE English G2. 

We completed Lesson 1, Task 2 in class today. We covered the following:

1) Read p.99-107 (Reading Strategies)

2) Do p.109-111 (Plot, Genre, Prefix)

For homework, to the best of their ability, can your children please complete the following Lesson 1, Task 1, activities:

1) Grammar p.26-30

2) 'My Wonder's Dictionary' - one word entry.

Thank you and have a very good evening.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

We completed Lesson 19, Task 2, p.47-50 (root words, sentences, and paragraphs), 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 word entries in their Wonder's Dictionary. 

Thank you and have a very good weekend.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

We completed Lesson 19, Task 1 and p.41-46 of Lesson 19, Task 2, in class today.

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

1) 'My Wonder's Dictionary'

By the end of this week, your child should have 4 word entries in their dictionaries. 

Thank you and have a very good evening.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

We completed Lesson 18, Task 2 in class today.

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

1) Read Aloud, Record, and Submit

       (Lesson 18, Task 1 - p.1-14)

2) 'My Wonder's Dictionary' - one word entry.

Thank you and have a very good evening.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

We completed Lesson 17, Task 2 in class today.

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

1) Lesson 17, Task 1: Complete - p.23-25

2) 'My Wonder's Dictionary' - one word entry.

Thank you and have a very good evening.

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 coming 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 Michael's parents,

It was so very nice to see Michael and his mother, once again today!

Today's Trial Lesson was a Diagnostic Assessment Lesson to determine what English language level Michael is at.

We worked on Reading and Grammar tasks at the Grade 2 level. I assessed the four components of language: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

After speaking with Michael's mother, I believe that the Grade 2 (G2) Wonders program would be the best level for Michael's English language placement.

I will wait and evaluate Michael's homework (Lesson 16, Dec.08th, Week 4 Test), to provide a final confirmation of this G2 Wonders placement for Michael.

If you have any questions, please contact Ms.Ling or myself, at any time. Thank you and I look forward to seeing Michael again soon!

Very best regards,

Mr. (Domenico) Grande.

Dear parents,

We completed Lesson 14, Task 2 in class today.

For homework, to the best of their ability, can your children please complete the following Lesson 14, Task 1, activities:

1) Read Only - p.1-14

2) Complete - 'Respond to Reading' - p.15

3) 'My Wonder's Dictionary' - one word entry.

Thank you and have a very good evening.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

We completed Lesson 13, Task 1 in class today.

For homework, to the best of their ability, can your children please complete the following Lesson 13, Task 2, activities:

1) Read Only - p.66-75.

2) Complete - 'Key Details: p.77' and 'Readers to...: p.80'.

3) 'My Wonder's Dictionary' - one word entry.

Thank you and have a very good evening.

Mr. Grande.

Dear G2 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 G2 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, 'Not Norman: A Goldfish Story'.

2) Complete, 'Respond to Reading' - p.79.

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

Thank you once again.

Mr. Grande.

Dear Parents,

Please find attached charts which your children will need to place in their notebooks. Thank you.

Today, in class, we covered Lesson 10, Task 2 (Grammar). 

For homework, your children are to do Lesson 10, Task 1. They are to do the following:

1) Read the story, 'A New Home for Henry'.

2) Complete all of, 'Respond to Reading', on page 16.

3) One word entry into their, 'My Wonder's Dictionary'.

Have a good evening to you all. 

Mr. Grande.

Mon.Jul.19.2021

​Dear Parents,

Your children worked very hard today. They were focused and engaged throughout most of today's lesson and they were motivated to learn the curriculum in detail. Well done to them all.

Today, we covered the, 'My Wonder's Dictionary', creation and use. 

The expectation is for your child to find one word per lesson to write in their Dictionary (4 per week) and to build their Vocabulary Bank of knowledge.

There are four entries they need to make per word:

1) the Word;

2) the Dictionary meaning [dictionary.com - can be used];

3) a Synonym for the word [synonym.com - can be used]; 

4) Find the Word in the Text - write out the sentence the Word appears in, from the story. Thank you.

Today's Homework is to READ Lesson 9, Task 2, and complete the following questions:

1) p.63 - 'Your Turn'.

2) p.64 - 'Expert Model'.

3) One Word entry into their, 'My Wonder's Dictionary'. 

Thank you all once again for your strong dedication to your child's academic success.

Have a wonderful evening to all of you.

Mr. Grande.

Dear Parents,

In preparation of next week's Grammar and Vocabulary focused lessons, for homework over the weekend, can you please have your children complete the following 3 tasks:

1) Lesson 6 - Task 2 - p.6, p.7(part A), p.8

2) Lesson 7 - Task 2 - p.11(part A), p.12

3) Lesson 8 - Weekly Test - to be completed Independently (Question 21 - is to be written in Hamburger Paragraph Form)

Thank you very much.

Your children are working very hard. They are receiving higher level curriculum and instruction. I am very proud of their hard work and progress. Thank you for all your support in their education.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Very best regards, as always.

Mr. Grande.

Dear Parents,

For homework today (07.14. 2021), can you please have your children READ ONLY:

Lesson 7 - Task 1. 

We will go over their reading during tomorrow's lesson. Thank you very much.

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande.