We are officially into the month of October :)

 

Here is a look at what our ELL students have been doing:

Kindergarten: We finished identifying the colors of various objects and we practiced counting numbers and identifying what numbers come before a number and after a number. This past week, our small group of ELL students has been reviewing our letters and sounds and identifying words that have a particular letter in them. We did a project where the students matched letters, words and pictures and we worked on partner reading.

First Grade: We have identified different weather patterns and practiced writing the weather words and matching the words to pictures. Our next topic will be connecting the four different seasons to weather patterns using the following sentence frame: In the _______________ the weather is ______________. Next week, the students will be writing about different aspects of a chosen season.

Second Grade: Mrs. Krishnan will begin to work with groups from 2W and 2BR while Miss Lundeen will work will our students from 2C in the morning. 2C completed our investigation of the word greater and now we are working on comparing even and odd numbers. We finished the week by creating question clues to try and have the members of our group guess their magic even or odd number! Many students were extremely creative and invented number stories to convey their magic number.

Third Grade: Mrs. Howard has been reviewing the bones and muscles vocabulary with our third grade ELL groups.

Fourth Grade: Mrs. Krishnan has been working with our fourth grade students on describing themselves and communicating effectively with their peers. The students also looked at vocabulary introducing social studies topics such as natural resources, economy, geography, etc.

Fifth Grade: The fifth grade ELL students completed their writers workshop activity and did a fantastic job putting a story that they created into a unique comic! They are sharing the comic book with their group in their classes this week.

We have two Kid-to-Kid students from Metea Valley that are coming to May Watts to work with our students :) They will be coming in the afternoon on either Monday or Wednesday to work with and observe our students.

Next week will begin the district Interim Assessments for students in grades 2-5. ELL students that are levels 1-3 will not be required to take the interim assessments at this time.

 

As always, please contact us with any questions!

 

Miss Lundeen, Mrs. Krishnan and Mrs. Howard