Dear Siyuan's parents,

Siyuan had another strong lesson today. He was actively engaged and participated very well overall.

I am very proud of Siyuan. He is working very hard with his printing improvement skills and with his neatness of his work (using a ruler and a compass). Fantastic! Keep up the great work, Siyuan!

For today's lesson, we reviewed Siyuan's homework and we also covered Lesson 22 - Task 1 - U2L5 - In Class - Nature in Focus.  

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 (online dictionary)

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

4) Genre: Biography

5) Further Printing Improvement strategies

6) Nouns: uncountable, common, and proper

7) Graphic Organizer: mind map / idea web

8) Text Features: subtitle/subheading, bold text, highlighted text, label, illustration, diagram

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For HOMEWORK, can Siyuan please independently complete the following:

Lesson 21 - U2W2 - Apr 05 - Homework - Weekly Test

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful weekend and I look forward to seeing Siyuan next Friday. 

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

Mr. Grande