Dear Marquis' parents,

Marquis was very engaged and active thoughout today's lesson. He worked very hard to understand the vocabulary and context of today's reading. He made many connections to his own life experience to help him understand the story's context and he did so with success and with clarity. He is such an intelligent, hard working boy, and such a joy to teach!

Once again, Marquis, really great job today.

**I have asked Marquis to more effectively organize his anchor chart binder. He had a great deal of difficulty finding anchor charts that were relevant to today's lesson. Thank you.

For today's lesson, we reviewed Marquis' excellent weekly test homework as well as his anchor charts. We also covered Lesson 23 - Task 1 - U2L6 - In Class - Saving San Francisco Bay.  

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: translations, definitions, and synonyms

3) Reading strategies: decoding, context clue, fluency, and comprehension

4) Genre: Expository Text

5) Food Webs

6) Conversational Practice

7) Text Features

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For HOMEWORK, can Marquis please complete the following:

Lesson 23 - Task 2 - U2L6 - Homework - Grammar

Thank you.

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Here is my proposed Lesson Plan for Fri.May.31st:

Lesson 25 - Task 1 - U2L7 - In Class - Adapting to Survive

[HW - Lesson 24 - U2W3 - May 31 - Homework - Weekly Test]

Thank you once again.

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Have a wonderful weekend to the whole family and I look forward to seeing Marquis next Saturday (Beijing Time). 

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

Mr. Grande.