Monday November 16
We had a very "hungry" week in the EAL classroom last week. All that talk of food made it difficult to stretch until lunchtimes! It's amazing what an emotive subject it is! The children had a fairly good idea of the foods which are healthy and those which are not so healthy and need to be eaten in moderation. This week we turn our attention to our homes and the vocabulary associated with the outside and inside of where we live. As always we will be finding out what the children already know and using that as a starting point.
Important Dates
Tuesday December 1 National holiday (Restauraçáo da Indepêndencia - Political) Tuesday December 8 National holiday (Imaculada Conceiçáo- Religious) Term 1 finishes December 18 at 12pm. Another important date is the Christmas Fair which this year is on the 5 December. Times of the fair to be published next week.
This week in the EAL classroom.
We will begin the week by thinking about laying the table. We will learn the collective term for knives, forks etc. (cutlery) we will revise some of the vocabulary of last week as we use our imaginations to decide what would be our favourite meal.
We will learn the vocabulary of homes in two sections a) things around the home eg gate, chimney and b) the different rooms in the house, together with stairs, corridors and hallway.
We will design either our home as it is now or our dream home. Then we will use our new language to explain the layout of our design.
Past tense takes an important place on the timetable this week as there re so many irregular past tenses and few rules to follow. We will also be looking at prepositions,. This is another area of grammar with few guidelines.
Maths
Year 6 will be working on scale. (linked to work being down in the mainstream class)
Years 3, 4 and 5 will be finishing off area and starting to look at ways to collect and record information ie. data.
We will look again this week at classroom rules and see how they connect to the PYP attitudes and profiles.
This week too, we will decide on our contribution to the Celebrations Around the World concert to be held in the last week of school. For the moment we'll keep you guessing!
We had a very "hungry" week in the EAL classroom last week. All that talk of food made it difficult to stretch until lunchtimes! It's amazing what an emotive subject it is! The children had a fairly good idea of the foods which are healthy and those which are not so healthy and need to be eaten in moderation. This week we turn our attention to our homes and the vocabulary associated with the outside and inside of where we live. As always we will be finding out what the children already know and using that as a starting point.
Important Dates
Tuesday December 1 National holiday (Restauraçáo da Indepêndencia - Political) Tuesday December 8 National holiday (Imaculada Conceiçáo- Religious) Term 1 finishes December 18 at 12pm. Another important date is the Christmas Fair which this year is on the 5 December. Times of the fair to be published next week.
This week in the EAL classroom.
We will begin the week by thinking about laying the table. We will learn the collective term for knives, forks etc. (cutlery) we will revise some of the vocabulary of last week as we use our imaginations to decide what would be our favourite meal.
We will learn the vocabulary of homes in two sections a) things around the home eg gate, chimney and b) the different rooms in the house, together with stairs, corridors and hallway.
We will design either our home as it is now or our dream home. Then we will use our new language to explain the layout of our design.
Past tense takes an important place on the timetable this week as there re so many irregular past tenses and few rules to follow. We will also be looking at prepositions,. This is another area of grammar with few guidelines.
Maths
Year 6 will be working on scale. (linked to work being down in the mainstream class)
Years 3, 4 and 5 will be finishing off area and starting to look at ways to collect and record information ie. data.
We will look again this week at classroom rules and see how they connect to the PYP attitudes and profiles.
This week too, we will decide on our contribution to the Celebrations Around the World concert to be held in the last week of school. For the moment we'll keep you guessing!
