This week in ELL!

Hopefully everyone had a great long weekend! Our ELL groups have been working hard in our class to practice furthering our understanding of different skills and English vocabulary.

In Kindergarten, we are discussing different places in our community. We identified that houses, our favorite restaurants, parks, hospitals, etc are all places that exist in our community. Each student created a building that they included later on in our Kindergarten ELL community! 

First graders have been discussing the ways that we can take care of our bodies. We have read stories, sung songs and read poems, and are now using our special sequencing words (first, next, then, last) to create a writing piece that describes the different things that we all can do to take care of our bodies!

Second graders are identifying the different landforms that exist on our Earth. We created motions that represent different landforms and have been working on matching descriptions of each landform with their pictures doing a Mix, Freeze, Match activity. We will continue our study of Geography by working with the terms continent and ocean and completing different activities to represent these physical features.

Third grade is discussing the terms immigration and migration. We have identified which students in our ELL group are immigrants and which students are not immigrants and were born in the United States. We have found that there are six students in our group that are immigrants! Later this week, we will be comparing the terms immigration and migration and identifying examples of each.

Fourth graders are continuing our discussion on the different steps included in the scientific method. We have been talking about what each step looks like and what we do during each step. We will also be practicing using these words by performing different experiments that allow us to correctly state a hypothesis and reflect on and revise our predictions for what will happen.

As a side project, we have also been comparing and contrasting currency from different countries. So far, we have compared the different forms of currency from the United States, Australia, India, Saudi Arabia, Italy and Korea! I'd like to thank our fourth grade parents for helping their children find money from other countries so that we can look at it in our ELL class! :)