Today we talked about what we enjoyed in ESOL this year. After that we ate Japanese snacks and got our end-of-year presents.
Even though we have had a small group this year, we have enjoyed ourselves and learnt lots.
As one of the Reading Recovery children had read The Flying Fish today, he came to the ESOL class to learn how to make the koi kites. One of the ESOL buddies listened to him read then taught him how to make the fish. They had fun together.
Over the last few weeks we have been playing Castle Explorer. We have learnt about castle life and how to read to find information.
The game was illustrated by Stephen Biesty and has 3D rooms with live-action actors in it. We were able to use the book it is based on to answer some of the questions.
Here is our review of Castle Explorer.
We have been playing Math Blaster. We have had to cooperate to do this as well as follow directions, read instructions and practise our maths skills. Here is our review of it.
Anis wanted to share some facts about bahulu.
You can access her blog at anisnz.blogspot.com
Here are our holiday stories. We recorded them ourselves.
We thought about how we could stop people from attacking the castle. Here are our ideas.
We decided we wanted to play with the castle so we built it. We had to work together using the language of cooperation and problem solving.
For homework we came up with ideas of how we would break in to the castle. We showed our friends our ideas using the castle and the figurines.
Last week we tried to hatch a dinosaur egg. We talked a lot about it and wondered why it took so long to work. It was an interesting discussion topic. We wonder what sort of dinosaur hatched.
Today Wency told us about the moon festival that is coming up in a couple of weeks. She told us about moon cakes and let us try some. Moon cake is yummy. One of our friends is very happy that fasting is finished for Ramadan so she could have some too.
As it is Fathers’ Day this weekend, we made cards for our dads and talked about them. Some of us have a dad is two different countries. All our dads are great.
Today we had dinosaur books. We used the indexes to look up the dinosaurs on the blanket. Then we explored the books and talked about what we found. We showed what we already know and the areas we need clarifying. We took the books home to learn more.
