Friday, February 13, 2009

Back to School - New Semester!

We started this new semester with a bang, reading two new ESL books - Our School and Family and Home. We read aloud and discussed the different aspects of each subject.

For Our School, we talked about the different people who help us at school and the different activities we do in class.

For Family and Home, we talked about the people in our families, the different rooms in our homes, and what our family members do for work.

After the readings, we reviewed the new vocabulary words and the students practiced writing them five times each.

This week also introduced three new students into our classroom - Andrew, Yo-Yo, and Cody. I had the students go around the room introducing themselves by saying their name and something that they like to do.

Andrew, Yo-Yo, and Cody fit right in and look to be great additions to the classroom.

As for the rest - Aston, Benson, Irene, Gwen, Henry, and Phil - they seemed to dive back into class without a lot of fuss, and I think we had a really good week reading and learning together.

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