Thursday October 22 International Day
Come and join us from 3.30pm to 6.30pm
Friday 23 October Beginning of half term break. (one week)
School resumes Monday 2 November for the second half of term one.
Reminders
Frustration levels can be high during the first few weeks of new language acquisition. The Portuguese speaking children really look forward to Portuguese when they can take a big sigh of relief and speak in their own language. For the non Portuguese speakers they do not have this relief. The children need to be patient with themselves. It will get easier and one day they will not believe that they never knew how to speak English!
This week in the EAL classroom:
- Year 6 will be catching up on work missed while they were preparing for and off on the camping trip. It will be interesting to see how well they can tell us (in English... ) about the trip!
- We will be prepararing our "All About Me" boxes. These boxes will be modelled by Mrs Bradford and Ms Erica at the beginning of the week. They will contain artefacts which tell us about the person eg A pilates DVD for Mrs B. and a rugby ball (!!!) for Ms Erica. The children will need to have their own boxes ready by Friday 16. We will then practise ..."I like.... I don't like....
In this way we hope that the children can more easily talk about themselves and we will also learn more about them. - We will start looking at adjectives and how they are essential to our everyday language and placing them with appropriate nouns.
- We will start working with possessive pronouns ie mine, his, hers, ours, theirs. (these can be confusing at first)
- The children have been told about International Day coming up soon. They will internalise the information about this day by making posters to advertise the day.
- We will continue taking photos of staff around school, in order to make a photo gallery of Who's Who. We will learn about what these people do /what their specific jobs are.
It's going to be a busy week in EAL.
There is always a lot of conversation going on in our room. (mostly in English!) They will love to show off to you what they have learned and earn your praise.
