Thursday, September 6, 2007

1R) questioning; b, a, c, t, i phonics instruction; classroom semantic feature analysis; reflective writing

September 7, 2007

1R) questioning; b, a, c, t, i phonics instruction; dictation + review; began name poems

Blog a paragraph: what was the most important thing you learned this week?

2R) distributed name tags, index cards and exercise books; explained give me five and Web sites; told a few personal stories; questioning; explanation of phonics

Bring three folders and, for extra credit, bring colored pencils or markers

September 10, 2007

1R) awarded lollies; questioning; bactims phonics; introduced acrostic poems, either descriptive or narrative; independent work time

Finish first draft of poem

2R) semantic mapped blogs, read article and revised maps while explaining RSS feeds and content aggregators

September 11, 2007

1R) questioning; bactims phonics; reviewed acrostic poems; finished poems with student presentations; reflective writing
Read pages 4 and 5; choose an important word to learn; guess its definition; explain why the word is important to learn
2R) checked colored pens and folders; questioning; bacti phonics; initial semantic feature analysis
read passage and revise semantic feature table

September 12, 2007

2R) questioning; bacti phonics; revised semantic feature analysis table, without adding more elements, unfortunately; taught explicit grammar questions: Qwords, yes/no and tags; distributed worksheets and finished discussing first part.

quiz on Friday; finish G.E. unit 1, pages 1-11

September 14, 2007

1R) questioning; bactims; dictation + review; read aloud page four; produced VSS words from groups to class level (unfinished)

journal writing; newspaper assignment

2R) questioning; phonics; finished discussing impolite and polite emotions in questions with group and class activity; dictation + review

journal writing + news assignment and reading passage assignment

September 19

2R) distributed lollies; questioning and bactims; read aloud; distributed exercise books and reported observations and comments regarding assignments; established blogs with first entries

choose a country and an important word to learn, from the lonely planet Web site

September 20

1R) questioning; hactbims; read page five aloud; finished elicting words for VSS list; elicited more VSS words from newspaper article and added words.

2R) discussed excuses, one more; questioning; bactims; finished reading aloud passage; pairs determined country, word, definition and significance; elicited countries and features for relationship analysis

complete table using online resources, etc.

2W) blog semantic mapping - it was ridiculously boring!

September 21

1R) establishing readiness expectations; questioning; bactimsh; semantic mapped words; read passage and added more vocabulary words; dictation

blog about a hobby using the present tense; GE unit 1, parts A-E; finish mapping new words

2R) establishing readiness expectations; bactims; discussed how students discerned semantic feature relationships; completed and revised table; dictation

blog about a hobby; G.E. unit 2, parts A-F; nebulous newspaper assignment

September 25

1R) provided commentary from parents' meeting; questioning students; phonics instruction BACTIMSHOR; semantic mapping and VSS list selection; reading aloud of passage; planning of letter

Choose a few areas about which to write; create five questions that you can answer about these topics

2R) discussed CBox problems and solutions; reflective writing; checked GE homework; group question comparison followed by class discussion of good/bad questions/characteristics

Form a group of four and create ten good questions

September 27

1R) questioning (CAR); Bactimsho; reviewed writing areas and questions; drafted letters and highlighted L.E. tips and plans for letters; reflective writing

finish drafting letter

2R) transitive verb questioning; bactimsho; reviewed questions and critera

2W) students created blogs; in their post, they listed five significant words, a definition for the most significant word and a statement of its significance for our class; furthermore, each post needed a title and labels; the blog creation assignment counted as a quiz

28/9

1R) CAR questioning; bactimsho; check drafts in stages; dictation

blogging; G.E. unit 18 A-C; rewrite draft

2R) transitive and intransitive verb questioning and VSS; bactimsho; reviewed survey questions and finalized list; dictation; reflective writing

complete G.E. unit 3, A-F; newspaper assignment and blogging

2/10

1R) rewarded John and Yoyo; checked G.E. unit 18 A-C; questioning (unit 18 and CAR); bactimshor; explicit unit 6 vocabulary teaching; writing pen pal letter reflection

2R) YouTube video embed; students need a title, a YouTube video, an explanation for choosing the video, one vocabulary word, one definition, one explanation for choosing the word and a vocabulary label

3/10

2R) rewarded Sunny and Karen; explained new index card procedure; questioning units 3 and transitive verbs; bactimshor; determined HK-focus for survey; phrasal verb activity word box activity; reviewed blogging

4/10

1R) questioning (CAR and unit 6 vocabulary); bactimshor; benchmarking assessment and marking

2R) ten minutes to finish phrasal verb boxes; questioning of phrasal verbs and transitive verbs; bactimshor; revised survey questions; read aloud yellow worksheet; expectation discussion with students

2W) Blog list-group-label strategy

5/10

1R) questioning (CAR and unit 6 vocabulary); bactimshor; quiz + review; introduced poetry by reading poem and learning rhythm

8/10

1R) questioning (pronouns, CAR, unit 6); bactimshor; distributed compositions and discussed rewrites; reviewed poetry worksheet and began writing poetry riddles incorporating either rhyme scheme or rhythm;

bring stationary materials to class; finish writing poems

2R) list-group-label; edit grid on blogs

9/10

1R) questioning (unit 6; CAR; pronouns); bactimshor; rewrote final drafts of letters

2R) questioning (phrasal verbs and pronouns); bactimshor; asked about yellow sheets (no review); wonders of world vocabulary quiz and review (incomplete)

10/10

2R) questioning; bactimshor; finished reviewing quiz; took and reviewed contextual analysis quiz

grammar quiz

11/10

1R) questioning; bactimshor; read and analyzed student poems; revised and rewrote poems

finish poems; quiz

2R) questioning; bactimshor; grammar quiz and review; seven wonders reading aloud (incomplete) and construction of 20-word VSS list

quiz

2W) YouTube embed activity with VSS

12/10

1R) distributed and explained Science in English program; quiz and review; MMLC time

science in English worksheet; and blogging

2R) questioning (wonders of the world and question tags); redistributed quizzes; bactimshor; read aloud and chose six words; quiz + review; began defining words using contextual clues

study for question quiz; blogging

15/10

1R) please see formal lesson plan

2R) YouTube list-group-label; distributed Flickr list-group-label worksheet; Flickr photo/slideshow task

16/10

1R) questioning; bactimshor (ch sh tr ar or th ai oa); brainstormed biography features; read aloud and analyzed contents; students began outlining passage

complete Einstein outline and complete Curie past tense worksheet

2R) questioning; bactimshor (ch sh tr ar or th ai oa); quiz+review; finished defining VSS words using context clues

17/10

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