Dear Serena' parents,

Serena had another strong lesson with active engagement and thoughtful, energetic participation...it is hard to keep up with her sometimes, my goodness, lol!

For today's lesson (May.02nd). We reviewed Serena's excellent homework submission as well as worked on Lesson 15, Task 1 - Literature book.

We covered the following literacy (poetry) concepts:

1) Types of Poems

2) Elements of Poetry

3) Figurative Language

4) Imagery

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For HOMEWORK, can Serena please complete the following:

1) Lesson 15, Task 5 - L15 - Your Beyond Practice

READ ONLY: 'Dolphin Cove' p. 2-15

ADD: New Words to Serena's Dictionary

Thank you.

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For next week's (May.13th) Unit 3 Lesson Plan, I propose to teach the following lesson: 

Lesson 1, Task 1 - U3L1 - The Cricket

[HW: Lesson 1, Task 2 - U3L1 - Homework Weekly Test]

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Have a wonderful holiday to the whole family and I wish Serena good luck on all her tests and assignments. See you in two weeks!

Very best wishes,

Mr. Grande

Dear Serena' parents,

Serena had another fully engaged and focused lesson today (Apr.22nd). We reviewed Serena's homework as well as worked on Lesson 14, Task 4 - In Class Practice - Beyond.

We covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Key Vocabulary and New Words

2) Clue Creation for Crossword Puzzles

3) Poetry - Types and Elements

4) Author's Point of View

5) Figurative Language: Simile and Metaphor

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For HOMEWORK, can Serena please complete the following:

1) Lesson 14, Task 5 - L14 - Your Beyond Practice

p. 92 ('Deer') - 94 and p. 96 (4 pages)

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For next week's (Apr.29th) Lesson Plan, I propose to teach the following lesson: 

Lesson 15, Task 1 - Literature book

[HW: Lesson 15, Task 5 - L15 - Your Beyond Reading / Read only - 'Dolphin Cove', and add New Words to Serena's Dictionary]

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** Ling, please note - we are coming to the end of Unit 2. Can you please provide me Unit 3, whenever you get the chance? No rush. Thank you.

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

Thank you.

Mr. Grande

Dear Serena's parents,

Serena had another fully engaged and energetic lesson today. She is a true joy to teach.

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

1) Proofreading strategies

2) Concluding sentences

3) Genre: Poetry (Lyric and Haiku)

4) Figurative Language

5) Literary Elements

6) Elements of Poetry (Meter and Rhyme)

7) Author's Point of View

8) Key Vocabulary - 'inspiration'

9) Connection: Text to Self/Text/World

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For HOMEWORK, can Serena please complete the following:

1) Lesson 13, Task 1 - Spelling Practice - p.58 ONLY

2) Lesson 13, Task 4 - L13 - Homework (Grammar Practice) - p.48-50 ONLY

Thank you.

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For next week's Lesson Plan, I propose to teach the following lesson: 

Lesson 14, Task 1 - Grammar

[HW: Lesson 14, Task 5 - L14 - Your Beyond Practice - p.91, p.93-98 ONLY]

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Have a very good weekend to the whole family.

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande

Dear Serena's parents,

For your information, Serena asked if she was ready for G5 Level so we went to the G5 Wonders curriculum and it was somewhat challenging especially since I would be teaching her and evaluating her, at the G5 Level, NOT the G4 Level.

Since she is doing so well at G4 Level - Unit 2, and G5 Level might be too challenging for now, she asked if she would be able to move up units to maybe G4 Level - Unit 4 or higher. I believe that would be a good idea for her, she's ready (especially since she is asking for a more challenging curriculum, which is an excellent sign that she is ready). However, I told her to speak with her parents and if they agree, just to let me know. It was up to her parents. Thank you. 

For today's lesson, we covered the following activities and concepts:

1) Homework Review

- Proofreading

2) Lesson 12, Task 2 - Literature book

- Genre: Folktale

- Genre: Expository Text

- Genre: National Geographic - Expository Text

- Prefixes

- Suffixes

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For HOMEWORK, Serena can complete and submit the following:

Lesson 12 - Task 4 - L12 - Homework (Beyond Reading) 

- Read p.2-14

- Complete Respond to Reading - 'Text Evidence' ONLY - p.15 - Q1-4

Thank you.

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For next week's Lesson Plan, I propose to teach the following lesson:

Lesson 13, Task 2 - R&W)

[HW: Lesson 13, Task 1 - Spelling Practice - p.58 ONLY and Lesson 13, Task 4 - L13 - Homework - Grammar Practice - p.48-50 ONLY]

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Enjoy your weekend and I look forward to seeing Serena at next Friday's lesson.

Very best wishes,

Mr. Grande

Dear Serena's parents,

We spent a lot of time reinforcing the excellence in Serena homework efforts and outcomes. She deserves the acknowledgement of hard work well rewarded. I am extremely proud of her English language progress in knowledge acquisition and understanding, as well as her communication accuracy and clarity with that learned knowledge. Thank you mom and dad for all your hard work and high expectations for Serena's accomplishments. Her future is very bright: 'the world is most certainly her oyster'! 

 For today's lesson, we covered the following activities and concepts:

1) Homework Review

- Titles

- Tenses

- Spelling strategies

2) Lesson 11, Task 3 - L11 - Homework

- New Vocabulary Check

-  Prefixes

- Suffixes

- r-Controlled Vowel sounds

3) Blooket (Serena beat me again! Sob! lol)

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For HOMEWORK, Serena can complete and submit the following:

Lesson 11 - Task 3 - L11 - Homework

pages 83-86 ONLY (4 pages)

(Please note: Serena does not have to do page 85, part B - her reading rate and accuracy are at above-average levels)

Thank you.

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For next week's Lesson Plan, I propose to teach the following lesson:

Lesson 12, Task 2 - Literature book (G4U2W4)

[HW: Lesson 12, Task 4 - L12 - Homework {Beyond Reading} - Read p.2-14 / Complete 'Respond to Reading' - Text Evidence - p.15 - Q1-4]

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Enjoy your weekend and I look forward to seeing Serena at next Friday's lesson.

Very best wishes,

Mr. Grande

Dear Serena's parents,

Serena was her usual fully engaged and motivated self throughout today's lesson. She was actively seeking answers to her many questions related to today's lesson. She thought careful and deeply when activating her prior knowledge and she did so with great success. She paid close attention to my correction and/or improvement strategies regarding reading comprehension. Specifically, creating high level sentence frames when writing out her answers, and text evidence (clues) strategies to strengthen her writing. She did great!

For today's lesson, we covered the following concepts:

1) Homework Review - capital letters and sentence starters.

2) Lesson 10, Task 2 - R&W:

a) Pre-reading strategies

b) Key Vocabulary

c) Reading strategies

d) New Words

e) Random Reading Comprehension questions to activate high level responses

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

1) Lesson 10, Task 1 -Spelling Practice

pages 50, 52-53 (3 pages)

2) Lesson 10, Task 4 - L10 - Grammar Practice

pages 41-42, 45 (3 pages)

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For our next lesson (Fri.Apr.01st), I would like to propse the following Lesson Plan:

1) Review Homework

2) Lesson 11, Task 3 - L11 - Homework (*In Class*)

3) Lesson 11, Task 4 - Present Progressive Activity (Game)

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I hope all of the above information meets with your approval. Please contact me if you have any suggestions or concerns which you would like to share with me. Thank you.

Have a wonderful weekend to the whole family.

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande

Please read the new article and go over the vocabulary.  The worksheet for today is GrammarPracticeReproducibles.G4SE-U2-21-25.  We will go over it in class.

Read Extreme Aninmals and finish the worksheets from yesterday.

Please do worksheet Yourturnpractice.G4SE-U2-31-40.pdf for homework.  We will discuss it at the beginning of class.

Please read the story "Moonlight Mystery Concert" and review the vocabulary for this unit.

Please read "Saving San Fransico Bay" and do worksheet G4SE-U2-21-30.pdf.

Please read Rescuing Our Reefs and complete wokrsheet G4SE-U2-11 (irregular verbs).

Please read "Behind the Secret Trapdoor".  We will discuss it in class.

Please read The Prince Who Could Fly and do worksheet G4 SE-U2.  We will go over it in class.

Please read the "Ant and the Grasshopper" and do worksheet G4SE-U2 (the worksheet on plurals).  We will go over everything in class.

Please read "The Secret Message" and review the vocabulary for this unit.  We will discuss it in class.

Please read "Badger and the Fan" and do wokrsheet G4 SEU2.  We will go over it in class.

Please do the G4SE-U2 worksheet and read 

Please read Amazing Animals and its vocabulary.  We will go over the article and new words for class.