Please continue to read aloud with your child each evening and at the weekends. It really is vital for the development of language and also increases self esteem. We realise lives are busy but reading with your child has to have priority. Please remember parents ......Read, read, read.......
Special events:
Arts Week May 24 - 29
Opening concert at 9am.Each day at 12.30pm there will be an instrumental performance by students held in the reception area. We would love to see parents come along and support this.Don't forget the art display which will be in the reception area during the whole week.
Thursday 3 June No school (religious holiday-Corpo de Deus)
Thursday 10 June No school (political holiday -Dia de Portugal)
Friday 4 June /Saturday 5 JuneJunior School Theatre Production - Peter Pan (not to be missed- tickets available soon!)
Tuesday 8 June Sports Day Nursery- Yr 2.
Wednesday 9 June Sports Day Yr3 - Yr6
What Happened in the EAL Classroom Last Week
Beginner's Group2N (Objective - vocabulary enrichment)
Making up imaginary people. Asking questions about them. Question asking is always difficult at first. It's much easier just to answer. Children need a lot of practice with this.
Beginner's Group 3VL/4LB (Objective - Support with planning report and presentation for summative assessment)
We spent the EAL time helping the children prepare for their summative assessment for their unit "Same Thing, Different Way." Their enthusiasm and determination to succeed is remarkable.
Beginner's Group 5T (Objective - Only two lessons this week due to field trip.)
We started our sounds book where we will be looking at combined letter sounds in Englis eg ay,ai and a-e which all make the same sounds. These exercises will help the children with decoding as they read and also their reading.
Beginner's Group 6P (Objective- Introduction of use of present perfect tense and use of the participle. A tricky one this! eg I have just got up/ I haven't eaten yet this morning.
We have started to do some games with verb cards to help children learn the many irregular verbs in English. We try to make it as fun as possible and not dreary list learning but sometimes memorisation helps to enjoy the games, so yes, there will be weekly tests to help the children become familiar with these verbs.
Intermediate Group 4 (Objective- To provide support with summative assessment, as with the beginner's group.)
Intermediate Group 5 (Objective - To complete mini projects on Pompeii to develop research, notetaking and presentation skills.)
Intermediate Group 6 (Objective - To continue with work on the present perfect tense)
We looked this week at other situations when we use this tense as with the word "yet" and "Have you ever.......?" We also played games with verb cards and started to prepare for tests on this work in the next few weeks. Learning English is fun but a bit of memorisation helps too!
