Dear Marquis' parents,

It was an honour meeting Marquis and having a class together. Marquis is an outstanding student. A dream student!

Marquis has tremendous overall English skills. He demonstrated excellent receptive skills: in-depth understanding and comprehension of the reading passage entitled "The Dragon Problem", coupled with excellent listening skills. Additionally, he demonstrated excellent production skills and is expressive and confident when he speaks - one of the most important parts of English. The sky is the limit for him! Well done!

WHAT WE COVERED IN TODAY'S CLASS

In today's lesson, we covered the following literacy concepts and strategies from Lesson 1 - Task 1 - U1L1 - Think It Through:

1) Pre-reading strategies: key conceptual foundation theme, prediction, identification, text-to-self and text-to-world connections
2) Key / New vocabulary: translations, definitions, context, synonyms and antonyms
3) Reading strategies: decoding, context clues, text features, and comprehension
4) Genre: Fantasy
6) Post-reading strategies: predictions, summation of reading passage

EXTENSION WORK
To supplement the curriculum we also explored new phrases verbal phrases, and collocations, coupled with idiomatic and figurative phrases including the following listed below.

- "thinking through" (I need to think through this math problem)
- "figure out" and "work out" (I can't "figure out" or "work out" this math problem).
- "I have a tonne of homework to do"
- "I have a pile of homework to do"
- "I have a lot on my plate" (a lot to do)
- "Running is a great way to CLEAR the mind"
-  I "take my time" doing my homework (I don't do it frantically)
-  "time consuming" (homework can be time-consuming)
-  "I'm not fond of ..." (expressing a dislike for something...)

HOMEWORK
For homework if Marquis has time, could he please complete the following: 
Lesson 1 - U1L1 - Phonics & Spelling Practice

Have a wonderful week ahead and I look forward to seeing Marquis again!

Warm wishes and all the best for Marquis and the entire family. 

Please feel free to let me know if you have any suggestions or queries.

Kind regards,
Teacher Philip.