Dear Siyuan's parents,

Once again, Siyuan worked very hard throughout today's lesson. He needed to write a significant amount of information into his notebook; in order to reinforce his learned knowledge and to practice his printing improvement. He did very well and achieved a Level 4+ for his in-class work efforts. Really well done today, Siyuan. Keep up your really hard work and continuous improvement in knowledge communication, especially in your writing/printing. 

For today's lesson, we reviewed Siyuan's homework, identified areas for improvement, and we also covered some of Lesson 20 - Task 1 - U2L4 - In Class - The Talking Eggs.  

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, text features, and comprehension

4) Genre: Fairy Tale (Folktale)

5) Capital Letters vs lower case letters

6) Cause and Effect: definition and identification

7) Figurative Language: simile

8) Compare and Contrast (Venn Diagram): definition and identification

9) Hamburger Paragraph: topic sentence and detail sentence

10) Printing Focus strategies

11) Context Clue strategies

12) Text Features: table of contents

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For HOMEWORK, can Siyuan please complete the following:

Lesson 20 - Task 2 - U2L4 - Homework - Grammar

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful long weekend to the whole family and I look forward to seeing Siyuan next Friday. 

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

Mr. Grande