We grew some critters in a cup of water. We learnt about future, present and past tense. We then buddied up and practiced the tenses. Then we shared some picture books with our buddy. The video is unedited and is warts and all.
Press Here
Omsin read us Press Here by Herve Tullet. It is a good book and we learnt verbs such as ‘rub’, ‘shake’ and ‘tap’. We really liked the book.
Our holidays
We wrote about what we did over the holidays.
Leena read a book about the equipment in playgrounds. She thought about what we have in our playground and drew pictures of them.
The flying fish
Two of the children from Reading Recovery had been reading The Flying Fish. They came to ESOL and we helped them read the book then we taught them how to make a koi kite.
Brave Triceratops
We read Brave Triceratops by Beverley Randell. We took a few pages each to illustrate and recorded it for your entertainment.
Dreidel
One of our group-mates found a dreidel from an ESOL group from years ago. “What’s this?” he said. “Can we make one?” The children had to find out about the dreidel and make one for homework. We used a net from Enchanted Learning. Here is our video of us playing the dreidel game.
Our holidays
Here are a couple of stories from our holidays.
Snow
We had been reading Snow on the Hill Road. This made us think about times we had seen snow. We haven’t seen it often so it is very exciting.
The Big Toe and penguins
We read the story The Big Toe. We thought about what the ‘something’ that wants its toe back could be. We wrote about it and drew pictures of what we thought it was.
We have been finding out about penguins over the last couple of weeks. Here are some of the things we have learned.
Up
When we came in to our room we saw that Mrs Higgs had left a picture of Up on the board from when she was working with someone in the morning. Ms Finikin hasn’t seen Up and we were telling her all about it. We wrote about the movie and some of us recorded our work. We like Up.