Dear Marquis' parents,

It was so nice to see Marquis again. As always, he worked so hard and was fully engaged throughout today's lesson.

We focused much of today's lesson on Marquis' testing taking skills and strategies with Multiple Choice assessments. They can be very challenging at times and he worked very hard to understand how to be more successful in his test results in this area.

For today's lesson, we covered the above literacy strategy development as well as some of his reading for Lesson 25 - Task 1 - U6L7 - The Life of a Dollar.

1) Pre-reading strategies

2) Reading strategies

3) Key Vocabulary

4) New Vocabulary

5) Reviewed: Homonyms and Synonyms

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For HOMEWORK, can Marquis please complete the following:

Lesson 25 - Task 2 - U6L7 - Homework

Thank you.

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Here is my proposed Lesson Plan for Sat.Jul.16th:

Lesson 26 - Task 1 - U6L8 - How to be a Smart Shopper

[HW - Lesson 27 - U6W4 - Homework - Weekly Test]

Thank you once again.

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Have a wonderful weekend, and week, to the whole family and I very much look forward to our next lesson together.  

My very best regards are with you all, as always.

Mr. Grande.

Dear Marquis' parents,

Marquis worked very hard once again today! He is such a wonderful student and he wants to clearly understand all that he is learning. Fantastic! Marquis is such a true joy to teach.

Please Note: I will be away on holidays starting this Sat.Jun.18th. When I return, my Summer ANEE schedule will be changing. I hope a new day & time will be possible with Marquis. I look forward to teaching him upon my return. Thank you.

For today's lesson (Lesson 23 - Task 1 - U6L6 - Jun 13 - 'Digging for Sue'), we reviewed Marquis' homework and covered the covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Handwriting:

- keeping uppercase and lowercase letters at their correct heights.

- close the loops - 'd', 'p', etc.

2) Genre: Informational Text

3) Text Features:

- photographs & illustrations

- captions

- special print

- titles & subtitles

- labels

4) Pre-reading strategies

5) Reading strategies

6) New Vocabulary

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For HOMEWORK, can Marquis please independently complete the following:

Lesson 24 - U6W3 - Jun 13 - Weekly Test - Homework

Thank you.

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For Marquis next Lesson Plan, we must wait until I return from holidays and my new Summer ANEE schedule has been compiled.

Thank you once again.

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Have a wonderful three weeks while I am away and I hope Marquis can keep up with his school and independent English language studies. Keep up your awesome hard work Marquis! I hope to see you in a few weeks.

My very best regards are with the entire family, as always.

Mr. Grande.

Dear Marquis' parents,

Marquis worked very hard today! We reviewed his excellent homework and tests result and we also reviewed Lesson 22 - Task 1 - U6L5 - Jun 06 - Dive Team. 

We covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Genre: Expository Text (Information Text)

2) Pre-reading strategies

3) Key Vocabulary

4) Reading strategies

5) Text Features

6) Summarize (Main Idea/Key Details)

7) Greek & Latin Roots (root words)

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For HOMEWORK, can Marquis please complete the following:

Lesson 22 - Task 2 - U6L5 - Jun 06 - Homework

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For next week's (Jun 13) Lesson Plan, I propose to teach the following lesson: 

Lesson 23 - Task 1 - U6L6 - Jun 13 - Digging for Sue

[HW: Lesson 24 - U6W3 - Jun 13 - Weekly Test - Homework (G2U6W3)]

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful week to the whole family and I look forward to our lesson next Monday.

My very best regards are with you all, always.

Mr. Grande

Dear Marquis' parents,

Marquis is such an intelligent boy. Throughout today's lesson, Marquis consistently asked questions that extended the lesson curriculum into higher level's of learning. He is such an eager learner that as a teacher, I am challenged to keep up with his fantastic hunger for knowledge. Marquis is a true joy to teach.

For today's lesson (Lesson 20, Task 1: U6L4 - May 30 - Wind Power) and homework review, we covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Exceptional improvement in Marquis' spelling - acknowledgement 

2) Pre-reading strategies

3) New vocabulary

4) Context clues for challenging vocabulary

5) Relevant curriculum extensions

6) 'Solar House' review

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For HOMEWORK, can Marquis please independently complete the following:

1) Lesson 21 - U6W2 - May 30 - Weekly Test - Homework

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For next week's (Jun 06) Lesson Plan, I propose to teach the following lesson: 

Lesson 22 - Task 1 - U6L5 - Jun 06 - Dive Team

[HW: Lesson 22 - U6L5 - Jun 06 - Homework]

Thank you.

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As always, have a wonderful week to the whole family and I look forward to our lesson next Monday.

My very best regards are with you all, always.

Mr. Grande

Dear Marquis' parents,

Today's lesson was curriculum rich with Lesson 19 - Task 1 - U6L3 - 'Pedal Power', reviewing Marquis' amazing English language oral presentation, as well as his 'Adjectives' homework. Wow, we covered a lot of curriculum and Marquis worked very hard to engage and succeed in his learning. He did a fantastic job today! 

We covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Oral presentations: Strengths and Next Steps

2) Adjectives

3) Commas

4) Proofreading - Informal Assessment

5) Pre-reading strategies

6) Key Vocabulary

7) Reading Fluency and Comprehension strategies

8) New Vocabulary

9) Genre: Expository Text (Informational)

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For HOMEWORK, can Marquis please complete the following:

1) Lesson 19 - Task 2 - U6L3 - May 23 - Homework

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For next week's (May 30th) Lesson Plan, I propose to teach the following lesson: 

Lesson 20 - Task 1 - U6L4 - May 30 - Wind Power

[HW: Lesson 21 - U6W2 - May 30 - Weekly Test - Homework]

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful week to the whole family and I look forward to our lesson next Monday.

My very best regards are with you all, always.

Mr. Grande

Dear Marquis' parents,

It is always wonderful to see and teach Marquis. He had another strong lesson today, with active engagement and thoughtful, energetic participation. Great!

For today's lesson, we reviewed Marquis' homework and worked on Lesson 17, Task 1 - U6L2 - May 16 - Hercules and the Golden Apples.

We covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Open / Closed First Syllable

2) Letter structures - 'r'

3) Pre-reading strategies

- Greek Mythology

4) Reading strategies

5) New Words

*** If Marquis would like, he can read the rest of 'Hercules and the Golden Apples', on his own, if he would enjoy this very interesting Greek Mythology story. This is NOT homework. It is up to Marquis if he would like to read the rest of this story. Thank you.

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For HOMEWORK, can Marquis please independently complete the following:

1) Lesson 18 - U6W1 - May 16 - Weekly Test

2) Lesson 17, Task 2 - U6L2 - May 16 - Extra Homework - ONLY pages 126 and 130 (2 pages)

Thank you.

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For next week's (May.23th) Lesson Plan, I propose to teach the following lesson: 

Lesson 19, Task 1 - U6L3 - May 23 - Pedal Power

[HW: Lesson 19, Task 2 - U6L3 - May 23 - Homework]

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Have a wonderful week to the whole family and I look forward to my next Monday's lesson with Marquis.

Very best wishes to you all,

Mr. Grande

Dear Marquis' parents,

Welcome back from your wonderful holidays! Your holiday photos are absolutely lovely. Thank you very much for showing them to me.

For today's lesson, Marquis had a fully engaged and focused lesson (Lesson 16 - Task 1 - U6L1 - May 09 - Why Fir Tree Keeps His Leaves). We reviewed Serena's homework as well as worked on the above lesson.

We covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Subject Pronouns

2) Capitalization: Book Titles and 'Names' of people, places, and things.

3) Referencing Text Evidence

4) Pre-reading strategies

5) Key Vocabulary

6) Reading strategies

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For HOMEWORK, can Marquis please complete the following:

1) Lesson 16, Task 2 - U6L1 - May 09 - Homework

Thank you.

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For next week's (May 16th) Lesson Plan, I propose to teach the following lesson: 

Lesson 17, Task 1 - U6L2 - May 16 - Hercules and the Golden Apples

[HW: Lesson 18 - U6W1 - May 16 - Weekly Test]

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Have a wonderful week to the whole family and I look forward to our lesson next Monday.

My very best regards are with you all, always.

Mr. Grande

Dear Marquis' parents,

Marquis had another fully engaged and focused lesson today (Apr.25th). We reviewed Marquis' homework as well as worked on Lesson 14, Task 2 - U5L10 - Apr 25 - Grammar as well as Lesson 14, Task 1 - U5L10 - Apr 25 - On-Level Reading

We covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Letter Structure Review

2) Grammar - Sentence Frames

3) Pronoun-Verb Agreement

4) Title: Capitalization

5) Genre: Expository Text

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For HOMEWORK, can Marquis please INDEPENDENTLY complete and submit the following:

1) Lesson 15: U5W5 - Apr 25 - Weekly Test - Homework

Thank you.

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In two weeks (May 09), the lesson plan will be following lesson: 

Lesson 16, Task 1 - U6L1 - May 09 - 'Why Fir Tree Keeps His Leaves'

[HW: Lesson 16, Task 2 - U6L1 - May 09 - Homework]

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Have a wonderful holiday and I look forward to our next lesson in two weeks!

Have a safe, happy, and healthy vacation,

Mr. Grande

Dear Marquis' parents,

Marquis had another fully engaged and focused lesson today. We reviewed Marquis' Lesson 12 - Apr 11 - Week 4 Test. and we covered the following test-taking strategies and literacy concepts:

1) Dictionary Usage - Marquis must understand the test questions and all the KEY vocabulary in the questions and also in the answer choices (Multiple-Choice).

2) We reviewed the four Word Types that challenged him on the test: homophones, homonyms, synonyms, and antonyms (all these Word Types were introduced to Marquis with VIPKid - fyi - we used the 'Vocabulary' Anchor Chart that I sent last week, thank you).

3) We covered Homonyms further in Lesson 13, Task 1 - U5L9 - Apr 18 - 'Visiting the Past'

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For HOMEWORK, can Marquis please complete the following:

1) Lesson 13, Task 2 - U5L9 - Apr 18 -Homework

Thank you.

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For next week's (Apr.25th) Lesson Plan, I propose to teach the following lesson: 

Lesson 14, Task 2 - U5L10 - Apr 25 - Grammar

[HW: Lesson 14, Task 1 - U5L10 - Apr 25 - 'Government Rules' - On-Level Reading (p. 2-14 ONLY)]

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After Marquis' Weekly Test 'diagnostic' review and during today's lesson, I believe it best that I reduce the multitude of challenging literacy concepts during a lesson to 1-2 concepts per class, rather than 2-3 concepts per class.

I believe covering too many challenging literacy concepts can be overwhelming for Marquis' English language learning.

Increasing the lesson time spent with less challenging and familiar literacy concepts into our lessons would help build Marquis' confidence with his English language knowledge and abilities plus it will further reinforce his English language knowledge in a more effective and time extended manner.

I hope that this change in teaching/learning strategy is acceptable to you. Please let me know your thoughts. Thank you.

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Have a wonderful week, stay healthy and safe, and I look forward to our lesson next Monday.

My very best regards are with you all, as always,

Mr. Grande

Dear Marquis' parents,

Marquis worked very hard today, with our main focus being on grammar conventions for paragraph writing and siting text evidence. He did really great and he is so intelligent and sweet. Marquis is such a pleasure to teach.

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

1) Homework Review

- Paragraph structure

- Sentence organization

- Proofreading for Spelling

- Tenses

- Siting Text Evidence

2) Lesson 11, Task 1 - U5L8 - Apr 11 - Our Beautiful Tree'

- Genre: Fiction

- Reading strategies

- Articulation / Enunciation practice

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

1) Lesson 11 - Task 2 - U5L8 - Apr 11 - Extra Homework

p. 116, 118, & 120 ONLY (3 pages)

2) Lesson 12 , U5W4 - Apr 11- Weekly Test

***Important: Marquis is to INDEPENDENTLY complete this test.

Thank you.

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

Lesson 13, Task 1 - U5L9 - Apr 18 - 'Visiting the Past'

[HW: Lesson 13, Task 2 - U5L9 - Apr 18 - Homework]

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Have a wonderful week and weekend, and I look forward to seeing Marquis at next Monday's class.

My very best wishes are with you all.

Mr. Grande

Dear Marquis' parents,

Marquis had a very thorough and comprehensive English language lesson today. We covered three of the four language learning components (speaking, listening, reading) very effectively and Marquis did great! Very well done once again Marquis! We'll cover the writing component, in more detail, next week as we review Q21 on this week's test. Thank you.

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

1) Homework Review

2) Lesson 10, Task 1 - U5L7 - Protecting the Earth'

- Pre-reading strategies

- Key Vocabulary Check

-  Reading strategies

- New Vocabulary

- Articulation/Enunciation strategies

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For HOMEWORK, Marquis can complete and submit the following:

Lesson 10 - Task 2 - U5L7 – Homework

Thank you.

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

1) We'll cover the writing component, in more detail, as we review Q21 from last week's test. 

2) Lesson 11, Task 1 - U5L8 - Apr 11 - Our Beautiful Tree'

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Enjoy your week and your visit to the zoo! Have fun! I look forward to hearing all about it at next Monday's lesson.

My very best wishes are with you all.

Mr. Grande

Dear Marquis' parents,

I hope Marquis feels better soon. It is never nice to be as 'sick as a dog'! Poor boy.

For today's lesson, we covered Lesson 8 - Task 1 - Mar 28 - U5L6 - 'Rudy Garcia-Tolson', focusing on the following literary concepts:

1) Pre-reading strategies (Prediction)

2) Connection (text to self and text to world)

3) Reading strategies

4) New Vocabulary

5) Summarization

6) Sequence

7) Synonyms (Paragraph Context Clues)

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For Homework, can Marquis please independently complete, then submit, the following test:

Lesson 9 - Mar 28 - U5W3 - Weekly Test (G2U5W3)

Thank you

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Optional: Extra Homework

Pages 111 and 115 ONLY (2 pages)

Lesson 8 - Task 2 - Mar 28 - Homework

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For NEXT WEEK's Lesson, we will be working on:

Lesson 10 - Task 1 - Apr 04 - U5L7 - 'Protecting the Earth'

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Have a wonderful week to the whole family and get better soon Marquis. 

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande

Dear Marquis and Marquis' parents,

Marquis' worked very hard once again throughout today's (Mar.21st) intensive and extensive English language lesson. We covered the following homework reviews and lesson:

1) Homework Review

a) Lesson 6 - Mar 14 - U5W2 - Weekly Test

- Multiple Choice (M/C) strategies

- Text Evidence to support (M/C) answers

- Text Features

b) Grammar HW - Mar 14 - U5L4

- Instruction Comprehension

2) Lesson 7, Task 1 - Mar 21 - U5L5 - 'Discover Heroes'

- Pre-reading strategies

- Key Vocabulary

- Text Features

- Reading strategies

- Genre: Biography

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For HOMEWORK, can Marquis please complete the following lesson:

Lesson 7, Task 2 - Mar 21 - U5L5 - Homework

Thank you.

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Next Week's Lesson (Mar.28th):

Lesson 8, Task 1 - Mar 28 - U5L6 - 'Rudy Garcia-Tolson'

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Enjoy your upcoming week. If you have any questions about Marquis' English language learning, please don't hesitate to reach out to me or to Mrs. Ling Song.

All the very best to the whole family and I look forward to our next lesson together.

Very best wishes,

Mr. Grande

Dear Marquis' parents,

I am very sorry to see that Marquis is not feeling well. He still had a very good class today but I do hope he feels better soon.

For today's lesson (Lesson 5, Task 1 - U5L4 - Thirteen is a Crowd), we covered the following activities and literacy concepts:

1) Reviewed Marquis' homework

2) Identified Text Features and Genre

3) Identified Unfamilar Vocabulary

4) Practiced Marquis' Reading Strategies

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For HOMEWORK, can Marquis please INDEPENDENTLY complete the following test: 

Lesson 6 - Mar 14 - U5W2 - Weekly Test - Homework

Thank you.

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For next week's class (Mon.Mar.21st), we will cover the following lesson:

Lesson 7, Task 1 - Mar 21 - U5L5 - Discover Heroes

Homework for next week's class will be:

Lesson 7, Task 2 - Mar 21 - U5L5 - Homework

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If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you so very much and I hope Marquis feels better soon.

My very best regards are with you all, as always.

Mr. Grande

Dear Marquis' parents,

Marquis had a great lesson today. We covered many English language concepts, especially many concepts that he learned in VIPKid and is gradually remembering. That is super. We will continue to work on his Reading Fluency and his Vocabulary decoding strategies for multi-syllabic and unfamiliar words. 

For today's lesson (Lesson 4, Task 1 [U5L1] - Let's Cooperate), we covered the following concepts:

1) Pre-reading strategies p.344-345

2) Key Vocabulary p.346-347

3) Reading strategies p.348-351

4) Summarization strategies p.352 - (Key Details: beginning, middle, and end)

5) Author Point of View p.353

6) Genre - Fiction p.354

7) Idioms p.355

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For HOMEWORK, can Marquis please complete and submit the following lesson (more than 24hrs before his next lesson please):

Lesson 4, Task 2 - Mar 07 - U5L3 - Homework

Thank you.

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For his next class (Mon.Mar.14th), we will be covering the following lesson:

Lesson 5, Task 1 (U5L4) - 'Thirteen is a Crowd' [On-Level Reading]

For Preparation: can Marquis please add new unfamiliar words to his dictionary, from this story - p.2-15. Thank you.

1) We will read this story, in class, and work on Marquis' Reading Fluency and his Decoding strategies.

2) In class, we will also work on 'Respond to Reading' p.16 (no preparation required).

Thank you.

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For your information only:

The homework that will be assigned at his Mon.Mar.14th class, will be:

1) Lesson 5, Task 2, Mar 14 - U5L4 - Homework

2) Lesson 6, Mar 14 - U5W2 - Weekly Test - Homework

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I hope all this information is helpful and not too confusing. If you would like some clarification on what I have written, please don't hesitate to contact me, no problem.

Thank you once again for a great lesson today. Marquis is such a sweet and intelligent boy and I am so very happy that I am able to teach him again. He is a true joy to teach!

Enjoy your week and I look forward to my next lesson with Marquis.

My very best wishes are with the whole family, as always.

Mr. Grande­­­­­­­­­­