Dear parents,

Your children are such a joy to teach. They all have a wonderful sense of humour, they are very intelligent, and they work hard. They all had another very strong English language lesson today.

For today's lesson, we reviewed your children's Anchor Chart binders (thank you very much to the parents who are printing out the Anchor Charts and keeping their children's binders up to date - this learning resource is being used every lesson and your children are significantly benefiting - at school and with me - from the very important literacy knowledge these binders contain. Thank you!), and we also covered Lesson 8 - Task 1 - U3L8 - Your Turn.

We focused on the following literacy concepts:

1) Key/New vocabulary - synonyms (words and phrases) and definitions

2) Reading strategies: context clues, key vocabulary, key details, and comprehension

3) Genre: Biography

4) Author's Point of View

5) Text Features: title, special (bold) print, picture (photograph), captions

6) Primary and Secondary Source

7) Latin and Greek Suffixes and Prefixes

8) Plurals

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete the following:

Lesson 8 - Task 2 - U3L8 - Homework - Literacy

Page: 131

Pages: 133-138

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful Chinese New Year celebration and I look forward to hearing all about your festivities when I see your children next Thursday.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

It was so nice to see your children again after the long holiday break. Throughout today's lesson, your children were all actively participating and engaged; motivated to succeed in their learning; and they tried their very best, which is all we can ask of them. They are all a joy to teach. 

For today's lesson, we reviewed some of the homework they submitted over the holiday break. We also reviewed their Anchor Chart binders. Finally, we worked on Lesson 7 - Task 1 - U3L7 - Abe's Honest Words.

We focused on the following literacy concepts:

1) Pre-reading strategies: prediction, identification, text-to-self and text-to-world connections

2) Key/New vocabulary - synonyms and definitions

3) Reading strategies: articulation & enunciation, fluency, decoding, and comprehension

4) Genre: Biography

5) Point of View: Narrator and Author

***Unfortunately, we could not cover suffixes and prefixes today because they did not have the Anchor Charts I sent them. 

Dear parents: can you please print out all the Anchor Charts you are sent, place them in plastic page protectors (for longevity), and then into their Anchor Chart binders. We will use the binders every class and the Anchor Charts are valuable knowledge keepers for your children's continual reference, knowledge reinforcement, and overall learning success.

Thank you so very much for your acitve participation in your child's learning success.

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

Lesson 7 - Task 2 - U3L7 - Homework - Weekly Test

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful weekend and I look forward to seeing your children next Thursday. 

My very best regards are with you all.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

All your children had a very good English language lesson today. They worked hard, were fully engaged, and were in very good spirits. They seemed very excited for the Christmas break!

For today's lesson, we reviewed your children's Anchor Chart binders (please ensure that ALL Anchor Charts which you receive are printed out and placed into your child's Anchor Chart binder, using plastic page protectors - for longevity. We will be utilizing Anchor Charts for learning success, throughout ALL of our lessons. Thank you).

We also covered Lesson 6 - Task 1 - U3L6 - Your Turn.

We focused on the following literacy concepts:

1) Key/New vocabulary and Usage - Synonyms and Definitions

2) Reading strategies: Fluency, Decoding, and Comprehension

3) Point of View: Author and Narrator

4) Genre: Biography

5) Text Feature: Timelines

6) Synonyms and Antonyms

7) Phonics: Soft 'c' (sounds like /s/) and Soft 'g' (sounds like /j/)

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete the following:

Lesson 6 - Task 2 - U3L6 - Homework - Literacy

Page: 121

Pages: 123-127

(Optional - Page: 128 Ex.A Only)

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful holiday season and a Merry Christmas to all of your families. I look forward to seeing your children in the New Year (Thu.Jan.05.2023)! 

My very best regards are with you all.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

For today's lesson, we covered Lesson 5 - Task 1 - U3L5 - Delivering Justice.

We focused on the following literacy concepts:

1) Pre-reading strategies: Prediction, Identification, Text-to-Self, Text-to-Text, and Text-to-World Connections

2) Key/New vocabulary - Synonyms and Definitions

3) Reading strategies: Articulation & Enunciation, Fluency, Decoding, and Comprehension

4) Genre: Biography

5) Point of View (POV): Author and Narrator

6) Successful Learning strategies: use a ruler, read instructions carefully, proofread your work, correct mistakes, use an eraser, and be neat

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

Lesson 5 - Task 2 - U3L5 - Homework - Weekly Test

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful weekend to all of you and I look forward to seeing your children next Thursday. 

My very best regards are with all your families, as always.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

For today's lesson, we reviewed your children's Anchor Chart binders, in detail. Thank you all very much for helping to create these binders (with plastic page protectors) for your children. These binders will not only benefit your children's learned knowledge reinforcement but also encourage the development of independent learning skills, not just in my class, but with their school work and homework assignments. Thank you once again.

We also reviewed Lesson 4 - Task 1 - U3L4 - Your Turn.

We focused on the following literacy concepts:

1) Key / New Vocabulary - Usage & Context Clues for Comprehension

2) Point of View: Narrator and Author

3) Literary Device: Dialogue and Flashback

4) Silent Letters

5) Open Syllables

6) Reading: Comprehension

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete the following:

Lesson 4 - Task 2 - U3L4 - Homework - Literacy

Page: 111

Pages: 113-118

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful weekend and I look forward to seeing your children next Thursday. 

My very best regards are with the whole family.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

For today's lesson, we covered some of Lesson 3 - Task 1 - U3L3 - Aguinaldo.  

Some of your children expressed a desire to complete the reading of this very interesting lesson story. You can find the story at the lesson shown above or at this link:

https://aedcedu-my.sharepoint.com/personal/amychang_my-vps_ca/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx?id=%2Fpersonal%2Famychang%5Fmy%2Dvps%5Fca%2FDocuments%2FCourse%20Materials%2FEnglish%2FWonders%2FG4%2FG4U3%2FG4U3W2%2FLiterature%20Anthology%20G4U3W2%2Epdf&parent=%2Fpersonal%2Famychang%5Fmy%2Dvps%5Fca%2FDocuments%2FCourse%20Materials%2FEnglish%2FWonders%2FG4%2FG4U3%2FG4U3W2&ga=1

We focused on the following literacy concepts:

1) Pre-reading strategies: prediction, identification, text-to-self and text-to-world connections

2) Key/New vocabulary - Spanish - Synonyms

3) Reading strategies: Articulation & Enunciation, Fluency, Decoding, and Comprehension

4) Genre: Realistic Fiction

Parents: if you can please print out the Anchor Charts I have provided you for your children's learning of this higher level G4 Wonders Enhanced curriculum, it would be most beneficial for the scaffolding of knowledge that would best equip your children with learning supports and references, for their current grade and future grade curriculum, in school and out.

Anchor Charts are used by classroom teachers for this very purpose (you've probably noticed them displayed around the classroom for the students easy reference).

Providing an Anchor Chart binder, with plastic page protectors, would ensure the Anchor Charts' longevity and usefulness. Thank you very much.

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete the following:

Lesson 3 - Task 2 - U3L3 - Homework - Weekly Test

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful week and I look forward to seeing your children next Thursday. 

My very best regards are with the whole family.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

For today's lesson, we reviewed your children's homework (Lesson 20 - Task 2 - U2L10 - Homework - Literacy: p.91, p.93-96, and p.98), which took up most of today's lesson. The concepts we covered were challenging and needed detailed and thorough instruction. 

I will need to send you information (Anchor Charts) for your children to use during our lessons. These Anchor Charts will significantly assist your children in their learning of challenging literacy concepts. I will ask Ms. Ling to pass these Anchor Charts on to you.

Please keep these Anchor Charts protected in binders so that they do not get lost or damaged. Thank you so much.  

Today, we focused on the following literacy concepts:

1) Genre: Poetry

2) Elements of Poetry: Meter, Stanza, Lines, and Rhyming Scheme

3) Point of View: Author and Narrator

4) Figurative Language: Simile and Metaphor

5) Literary Elements

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Please Note: during next week's lesson, we will cover some of the important and challenging literacy concepts, that we did not get to today, from Lesson 2 - Task 1 - U3L2 - Your Turn. I will be sending you Anchor Charts specific to these challenging literacy concepts. Thank you.

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete the following:

Lesson 2 - Task 2 - U3L2 - Homework - Literacy

Page: 101

Pages: 103-106

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful weekend and I look forward to seeing your children next week. 

My very best regards are with all of your families.

Mr. Grande

Dear parents,

For today's lesson, we covered Lesson 1 - Task 1 - U3L1 - The Cricket. Your children once again worked hard and did very well throughout the class. Well done, everyone!

We focused on the following literacy concepts:

1) Narrator Point of View

2) Author Point of View

3) POV Identification in a Story

4) POV Story Creation

5) Genre: Fantasy and Legend

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete the following:

Lesson 1 - Task 2 - U3L1 - Homework - Weekly Test

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful week to all of you and I look forward to seeing your children next Thursday. 

My very best regards are with all your families.

Mr. Grande.

Dear Serena's parents,

Serena worked very hard today! We reviewed her excellent test result and we also focused on Cloze Activity (Fill in the Blank) strategies in Lesson 4 - U3L4 - Jun 03 - Your Turn. 

We covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Spelling of Unfamiliar Vocabulary:

- Context Clues / Text Evidence

'If the word is in the text - in front of your eyes - it should always be spelt correctly.'

- Dictionary (Chinese to English)

2) Cloze Activity strategies:

- know the meaning of every key word

- fill in the blanks of easy words first

- type of word (e.g.: noun, adverb, etc.)

- context clues / text evidence

3) Commas (with Quotation Marks)

4) Silent Letters

5) Open/Closed Syllables

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For HOMEWORK, can Serena please complete the following:

Lesson 4 - Task 3 - U3W2 - Grammar Worksheet

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For next week's (Jun 10) Lesson Plan, I propose to teach the following lesson: 

Lesson 5 - Task 1 - U3L5 - Grammar Worksheet

[HW: Lesson 5 - Task 2 - U3L5 - Homework Weekly Test]

Thank you.

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

My very best regards are with you all, always.

Mr. Grande

Dear Serena's parents,

As always, Serena was fully engaged throughout today's lesson (Lesson 3 - Task 1 - U3L3 - 'Aguinaldo') as well as through her homework review. She is such a joy to teach. 

We covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Instruction Comprehension

2) Pre-reading strategies

3) Reading Fluency

4) New Vocabulary (Spanish)

5) Genre: Narrative Fiction

6) Report Card Evaluation Features for Student Progress

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For HOMEWORK, can Serena please complete the following:

1) Lesson 3 - Task 2 - U3L3 - Homework - Weekly Test

Thank you.

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For next week's (Jun 3rd) Lesson Plan, I propose to teach the following lesson: 

Lesson 4 - Task 1 - U3L4 - Jun 03 - Your Turn

[HW: Lesson 4 - Task 3 - U3W2 - Grammar Worksheet]

Thank you.

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

My very best regards are with you all, always.

Mr. Grande

Dear Serena' parents,

Today's lesson was curriculum rich (Lesson 2 - Task 1 - U3L2 - Your Turn) and Serena was able to understand and communicate the knowledge learned, in an effective and successful manner. 

We covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Key Vocabulary

2) Reading Fluency and Expresson

3) Reading Comprehension strategies

3) Genre: Fantasy

4) Narrator's Point of View

5) Context Clues to determine and reinforce unfamiliar vocabulary definitions

6) r-Controlled Vowels (Anchor Chart)

7) Closed Syllables (syllables with a short vowel sound)

8) Open Syllables (syllables with a long vowel sound)

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For HOMEWORK, can Serena please complete the following:

1) Lesson 2 - Task 3 - U3W1 - Grammar Worksheet

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For next week's (May 27th) Lesson Plan, I propose to teach the following lesson: 

Lesson 3 - Task 1 - U3L3 - Aguinaldo

[HW: Lesson 3 - Task 2 - U3L3 - Homework Weekly Test]

Thank you.

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

My very best regards are with you all.

Mr. Grande

Dear Serena' parents,

Today was a 'holiday' lesson for Serena so are work was at a thorough but relaxing pace and we covered all the curriculum points that were planned. As always, Serena is such a pleasure to teach.

For today's lesson (May.13th). We reviewed Serena's dictionary homework submission as well as worked on Lesson 1, Task 1 - U3L1 - The Cricket.

We covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Text Feature - Illustrations - Predicting Story Plot Details using careful analysis. 

2) In Character Voice - voice determination using illustrations, type of animal, and context clues.

3) New Vocabulary

4) Serena's Dictionary Addition: include Chinese translations in word and sentence.

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For HOMEWORK, can Serena please independently complete the following:

1) Lesson 1, Task 2 - U3L1 - Homework Weekly Test

Thank you.

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For next week's (May.20th), projected Lesson Plan, I propose to teach the following lesson: 

Lesson 2, Task 1 - U3L2 - Your Turn

[HW: Lesson 2, Task 3 - U3L3 - Grammar Worksheet]

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Have a wonderful weekend to the whole family and I wish Serena a fun and educational class trip to the zoo on Monday. I look forward to hearing all about it. See you next Friday!

Very best wishes,

Mr. Grande