Week 5 - Clocks go back

Reminder:  You should have received information about the new optional Readers Theater program for ELLs.  It will be offered on Monday and Friday mornings at 8:00 am.  Please send in your signed permission slip if you would like your child to attend.

It will be a very busy weekend.  Saturday, October 31st is Halloween.  Please stay safe - here is a link with some safety tips.   Sunday, November 1, 2015 will be Daylight Savings Time.  (click on the words to read all about it).  At 2:00 am on Sunday, we turn our clocks back one hour, to 1:00 am.  Also, Sunday will be the 45th running of the NYC Marathon!  You can check out the webpage to see the marathon route and look for optimal places to cheer, as well as for road closures.

This picture was taken after the 2010 NYC Marathon.

Also, there will be NO SCHOOL Tuesday, November 3, 2015 for Election Day.

4/5 - This week, we started to write autobiographies - stories about ourselves.  Additionally, we started using rubrics to grade our work.  Please check out the Outstanding ELL Work page to see some of the great work we have been doing.

Home Connection:   Look for words with the prefix 'auto' (it means 'self') like in the words automatic and automobile.  

3 - This week we began looking at non-fiction texts.  We are studying features of non-fiction texts.  The vocabulary words we looked for are:

Table of Contents, photograph, map, italic print, bold print, index, illustration, heading, graph, glossary, diagram, caption.

Home Connection:  Ask your children to show you examples of the non-fiction text feature vocabulary above.

K/1 - We learned about the letter Jj.  We practiced it's sound, came up with many words that begin with j, ad created jellyfish with j shaped tentacles.  

Home Connection:  Ask your children what begins with Jj.  See how many things you can name!

Parents - Thank you for attending our first Parent English class.  If you would like to join next week, please come at to Room 212A at 8:15 am.  Your children can stay in the cafeteria.  This week we introduced ourselves and spoke about some of the many topics we will cover this year.  This class is completely driven by you, the students.  

Much like this, each week I will post what we cover in the parent class.  This week we introduced ourselves using our names, nationality, and telling about our children.  I asked where your children slept as babies.  Were they born in a hospital?  Did you co-sleep?  Or did they sleep in another room?