Mr. Alex's Super Second Grade

The week is over!

Your Favorite Teacher — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:57:20 +0000

Well done students in their spelling test today – as we missed a day this week, we had a lot of work to do and everyone worked very hard throughout the lesson today to catch up.

We finished two readings this week, as well as making some excellent descriptive sentences of our family such as:

‘My mother is pretty’

‘Her old grandfather’

‘Our tall father’

Next week we will be focusing on birthdays and toys.

Another excellent week and I look forward to seeing the students on Sunday!

Spelling test tomorrow

Your Favorite Teacher — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:13:31 +0000

The students are thoroughly enjoying ‘Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes!’ and are singing and doing the dance with great enthusiasm!

We will be having a spelling test tomorrow to review the words that we learnt from last week. Here are the ten words:

doll

tall

ball

call

bath

with

cloth

bath

lock

duck

clock

I will be handing out some sheets with the words with matching pictures after the lesson this morning.

Good luck all!

Snow day!

Your Favorite Teacher — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:43:35 +0000

The spelling test on Thursday was a great success, well done all!!

After missing school yesterday because of the rain, the class has lots of work to catch up on!

This week we will be focusing on the family and ways of describing family members. Here are the new words – the highlighted ones have ‘th’ in the middle, so will be the theme of the week:

mother

father

brother

sister

uncle

aunt

grandmother

grandfather

baby

cousin

The ways of describing family members:

young

old

pretty

ugly

little

tall

short

long

square

round

We will also be reviewing the body and the names of all the parts of the body. Therefore we will be singing ‘Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes!’ this week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFuZ6LPDYQc

On day one, it is already a popular song!

New words

Your Favorite Teacher — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:22:49 +0000

In class today we focused on the new words of the week, ending with ‘th’, ‘ck’ and ‘ll’.

The ‘ll’ words are:

ball

call

tall

Students added other words ending with ‘ll’:

wall

shell

smell

We practiced our words ending with ‘th’:

bath

cloth

with

Students also mentioned:

tooth (maybe because Zain lost a tooth last week!)

And the words ending with ‘ck’:

duck

clock

lock

Students also added the words:

black

backpack

We also practiced our class drama, using the new vocabulary.

Masa I, Nihad & Abdel Rahman

We also sang our song, ‘Five Little Ducks’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIiHoK-YJuQ&feature=related

Tomorrow we will be reviewing family vocabulary and the family tree.

Don’t forget the spelling test on Thursday!

Hello Mr. Alex!

Your Favorite Teacher — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:52:15 +0000

It’s great to be finally teaching the Super Second grade!

We will be reviewing and practicing ’the family tree’ this week and using the question structure ‘how many’ in our activities in class, using plurals as much as possible…

The ‘Five Little Ducks’ song that we will be singing in class will help us practice numbers too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIiHoK-YJuQ

Here are the new spelling words for this week (don’t forget the spelling test on Thursday so be sure to practice everyday!):

Words ending with ‘ll’ :-

Doll

Ball

Tall

Call

Words ending with ‘ck’ :-

Duck

Lock

Clock

Words ending with ‘th’ :-

Cloth

Bath

With

I will give the students a handout tomorrow with pictures to practice the words.

Mr. Alex

Goodbye Mr. Sean!

Your Favorite Teacher — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:14:08 +0000

Now Mr. Alex will be teaching the class by himself. Mr. Sean will still come visit but Mr. Alex is the teacher now!

Today in Class

Your Favorite Teacher — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:38:12 +0000

Today in Mr. Alex’ class we studied our Winnie the Pooh song. We also practiced our spelling words.

Our ch words are:

Cheese

Rich

And the students added some others like:

Chair

Chat

Our sh words are:

Shell

Ship

Shoe

fish

And our th words are:

Three

Thumb (we sucked our thumbs like babies)

And the students added some like

This and th

Don’t forget the spelling test on Thursday!!!

Our Winnie the Pooh Song

Your Favorite Teacher — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:58:23 +0000

Our New Friend

Your Favorite Teacher — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:53:23 +0000

Mira has joined our class. Welcome Mira!

This Week

Your Favorite Teacher — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:48:31 +0000

We are studying the questions:

Who _________?

The answer is always a person.

Do you _________

Yes I do.

No I don’t

Are you________

Yes I am.

No I’m not.