Dear parents,

You have very hard working children. We covered a great deal of curriculum during our lesson today and your children remained focused and engaged in their learning, throughout. Very well done to them all! 

For today's lesson, we reviewed your children's Anchor Chart binders and we also covered Lesson 20 - Task 1 - U4L10 - In Class - Your Turn.  

We covered the following literacy concepts and strategies:

1)) Key / New vocabulary: definitions and synonyms

2) Reading strategies: fluency, decoding, context clues, text features, and comprehension

3) Genre: Poetry (narrative and repeating poems)

4) Literary Elements of Poetry: stanzas, lines, repetition, and rhyme (rhyme scheme)

6) Connotation and Denotation

7) Variant Vowels: vowel diagraphs, vowel blends, vowel teams, vowel pairs, and diphthongs

8) Frequently Confused Words: homophones

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete the following:

Lesson 20 - Task 2 - U4L10 - Homework - Literacy

Page: 191

Pages: 193-198

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 entire family, as always.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

Today's lesson covered a very challenging curriculum unit on Poetry. This literay genre is one of the most difficult for students to comprehend and Anchor Charts are a key learning tool for this unit. All your children had the many Anchor Charts that I sent you to support today's lesson. Fantastic! I wish to thank you all very much for your wonderful support of your children's learning progress and of my extensive lesson planning for your children's English language academic success. They all work so hard and they do want to learn, which is wonderful, and much of that is thanks to you. Again, thank you!

For today's lesson, we reviewed your children's Anchor Chart binders as well as covered Lesson 19 - Task 1 - U4L9 - In Class - Swimming to the Rock.

We focused on the following literacy concepts and literary elements:

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

2) Key/New vocabulary - definitions and synonyms

3) Reading strategies: fluency, decoding, pace, intonation, inflection, rhythm, voice, and comprehension

4) Genre: Poetry 

5) Literary Elements: rhyme, repetition, rhyme scheme, stanza, and lines

6) Types of Poems: Rhyming, Repeating, and Free Verse

7) Connotation and Denotation

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

Lesson 19 - Task 2 - U4L9 - Homework - Weekly Test

Thank you.

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

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

Your children work very hard during their lessons. They are quite independent now with their computer information search strategies as well as their Anchor Chart binders. I am very proud of them and their progress. 

For today's lesson, we reviewed their Anchor Chart binders. We also covered Lesson 18 - Task 1 - U4L8 - In Class - Your Turn.

We focused on the following literacy concepts and strategies:

1) Key/New vocabulary - definitions and synonyms

2) Complex Sentences

3) Reading strategies: context clues, decoding, text features, and comprehension

4) Genre: Expository Text

5) Text Features: diagram, labels, and special print 

6) Cause and Effect

7) Context Clues

8) Diphthongs: /oi/ and /ou/

9) Digraphs

10) Greek and Latin Roots

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete the following:

Lesson 18 - Task 2 - U4L8 - Homework - Literacy

Page: 181

Pages: 183-188

Thank you.

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

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

It was very nice to see your children today, as always. They all worked hard and tried their very best to succeed in their learning, which makes teaching them a joy.

For today's lesson, we reviewed their Anchor Chart binders as well as covered Lesson 17 - Task 1 - U4L7 - In Class - Why Does the Moon Change Shape.  

We covered the following literacy concepts and strategies:

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

2) Key/New vocabulary - definitions and synonyms

3) Reading strategies: context clues, decoding, fluency, text features, and comprehension

4) Genre: Expository Text

5) Text Features: pictures (photographs), diagrams, labels, special print (highlighted text, bold print), captions, and subtitles

6) Cause and Effect

7) Paragraph/Context Clues

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

Lesson 17 - Task 2 - U4L7 - Homework - Weekly Test

Thank you.

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

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

Your children worked very hard throughout today's English language lesson. They were engaged, energetic, actively and effectively using their Anchor Chart binders, and writing significant amounts of detailed information into their notebooks. Really well done to all of them today!

For today's lesson, we covered Lesson 16 - Task 1 - U4L6 - In Class - Your Turn.

We focused on the following literacy concepts and strategies:

1) Key/New vocabulary - definitions and synonyms

2) Complex Sentence Structures: rich with detail

3) Reading strategies: context clues, decoding, text features, and comprehension

4) Genre: Historical Fiction

5) Narrator Point of View

6) Literary Elements

7) Words with Phonetic Distinction: 'u' sounds

8) Consonant + 'al'/'el'/'il'/'ol' Syllables

9) Answering Questions & Writing Stories strategy: 5 W's (when, why, where, who, what) + H (how) and Detail

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete the following:

Lesson 16 - Task 2 - U4L6 - Homework - Literacy

Page: 171

Pages: 173-178

Thank you.

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

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

For today's lesson, we worked on Lesson 15 - Task 1 - U4L5 - In Class - The Moon Over Star.

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 - definitions and synonyms

3) Reading strategies: context clues, fluency, decoding, text features, and comprehension

4) Genre: Expository Text

5) Innovations/Inventions from the Space Program found in our daily lives

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

Lesson 15 - Task 2 - U4L5 - Homework - Weekly Test

Thank you.

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

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

Your children all had another strong overall English language lesson today. Their proactive and independent use of their notebooks and their Anchor Chart binders are becoming much more effective and efficient. Their ability to find relevant language specific information, in a timely manner, has increased significantly since the first introduction of their Anchor Chart binders and the independent learning strategies, which I have implemented.

Also, a significant amount of praise and gratitude rightfully belongs to you, as their parents. Thank you very much for your active support of your child's learning needs and for your partnership, with me, in guiding your children to greater academic success, through these newly implemented learning strategies. Thank you. 

For today's lesson, we reviewed your children's Anchor Chart binders and we covered Lesson 14- Task 1 - U4L4 - In Class - Your Turn.

We focused on the following literacy concepts and strategies:

1) Key/New vocabulary - comprehension and usage

2) Effective knowledge application strategies for school work, homework, and assessment completion success

3) Reading strategies: context clues, text features, and comprehension

4) Genre: Fantasy (Folktale)

5) Text Feature: title, special print, and illustration

6) Author and Narrator's Point of View

7) Inflectional Endings: '-y' to 'i' and add er/ed/est/es

8) r-Controlled Vowel Syllables

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete the following:

Lesson 14 - Task 2 - U4L4 - Homework - Literacy

Page: 161

Pages: 163-168

Thank you.

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

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

All your children had another strong and fun English language lesson today. They actively participated in all the lesson activities and they worked very hard to be successful in all the language challenges I presented to them, especially the dictionary skills activities. Very well done to all your children today!

For today's lesson, we reviewed your children's Anchor Chart binders as well as their online dictionary skills. We also covered Lesson 13 - Task 1 - U4L3 - In Class - LaRue.

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 - definitions and synonyms

3) Reading strategies: context clues, fluency, decoding, text features, and comprehension

4) Genre: Fantasy

5) Text Features: illustrations and special print

6) Author and Narrator Points of View

7) Idioms

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

Lesson 13 - Task 2 - U4L3 - Homework - Weekly Test

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful week to all of your families and I look forward to seeing your children in class next week.

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

Your children once again worked very hard throughout today's lesson (Lesson 12 - Task 1 - U4L2 - In Class - Your Turn).

We covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Key / New Vocabulary

2) Reading: Fluency and Comprehension

3) Cause and Effect

4) Genre: Narrative Nonfiction

5) Text Features: Special Print (bold, big) and Title

6) Author's Point of View

7) Latin Roots

8) Inflectional Endings: '-ed' and '-ing'

9) Vowel Teams = Vowel Digraphs = Vowel Blends = Vowel Pairs

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete the following:

Lesson 12 - Task 2 - U4L2 - Homework - Literacy:

Page: 151

Pages: 153-158

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,

Your children were fully engaged and motivated to learn thoughout most of today's lesson. They were somewhat tired (all said they had a lot of work to do for school as well as for other extracurricular subjects) so I left time for them to play a reading game at the end of the class, which they seemed to enjoy. 

For today's lesson, we reviewed your children's Anchor Chart binders and we covered Lesson 11 - Task 1 - U4L1 - In Class - See How.

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 - definitions and synonyms

3) Reading strategies: context clues, fluency, decoding, text features, and comprehension

4) Genre: Narrative Nonfiction

5) Latin Roots

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

Lesson 11 - Task 2 - U4L1 - Homework - Weekly Test

Thank you.

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

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

Your children did very well during today's English language lesson. They worked hard and were engaged in all language learning activities.

During today's lesson, we were working with your children's Anchor Chart binders and they had well organized binders overall and I would like to thank you very much for helping them prepare these very important learning tools for our lessons, as well as school work from their school teachers.

Some of your children are missing one or two Anchor Charts still so I have reviewed these missing Anchor Charts with your children and I have informed Ms. Ling to please pass the missing Anchor Charts on to you. Thank you very much once again for helping your children become empowerecd in their independence as successful learners and for encouraging their continued high-achieving academic success.

For today's lesson, we covered Lesson 10 - Task 1 - U3L10 - Your Turn.

We focused on the following literacy concepts:

1) Key / New vocabulary - definitions and synonyms

2) Reading strategies: context clues, synonyms, and comprehension

3) Genre: Persuasive Article

4) Author's Point of View

5) Greek Roots (Affixes)

6) Compound Words

7) Root Words / Base Words

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete the following:

Lesson 10 - Task 2 - U3L10 - Homework - Literacy

Page: 141

Pages: 143-148

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 you all.

Mr. Grande.

Dear parents,

Once again, all your children had a very good English language lesson today. They were engaged, motivated, and energetic throughout the lesson, especially when I challenged them with literacy questions, from today's reading, which required them to find the answers in their Anchor Chart binders. They are all becoming much more familiar and comfortable in using the binders, with developing success; in comprehension and speed to find knowledge, and accuracy in communicating that knowledge. I am very proud of their growing independence and accountability in their own learning success. Wonderful!

For today's lesson, we reviewed your children's Anchor Chart binders and we also covered Lesson 9 - Task 1 - U3L9 - A New Kind of Corn.

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

***Dictionary.com*** (recommended)

3) Reading strategies: context clues, fluency, text features, and comprehension

4) Genre: Persuasive Article

5) Text Features: Special Print (bold, coloured, highlighted), Photos, Captions, Titles, Subtitles

6) Greek Roots (Affixes = Prefixes & Suffixes)

7) Parts of Speech

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For HOMEWORK, can Kaley and David please independently complete the following:

Lesson 9 - Task 2 - U3L9 - Homework - Weekly Test (G4U3W5)

Thank you.

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Since Jayden has already completed the above assigned homework, can he complete the previous week's test, which he still needs to complete. Thank you very much.

Therefore:

For HOMEWORK, can Jayden please independently complete the following:

Lesson 7 - Task 2 - U3L7 - Homework - Weekly Test (G4U3W4)

Thank you.

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

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande.

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.