See you guys next Wednesday

We only had English for an hour today because the students had art.

The students had their spelling test and did well. There were some hard words this week like difficult, chocolate, and vegetables. Nareem, Masoud, Ali, Rifaat, Shahed, Ameed, Beesan, and Omar A., did a great job on the test.

Lyana, Tareq, Masoud, Maya, and Ali told their stories today and did a great job.

Have a nice weekend. I will see you guys next Wednesday. We will have a very short week.

Next Week: reading, verbs, and how to tell time.

The Big Science Test

We had our science test today and the students did a good job. Some struggled but they have learned a lot about our bodies and the different systems in our bodies.

The grade they get on the test isn't important. What I want is for them to remember the vocabulary. Next semester we will continue studying science in class but we will study exercise and nutrition. It's important that the students remember what we've learned this semester about our heart, brain, lungs, stomach, muscles, and bones, because we will be talking about them again, and again, and again.

Today Rifaat, Fitian, Lilia, Shayma, and Kareem told their stories.

Tomorrow we have a spelling test.

Maya, Tareq, Ali, Masoud, and Lyana will tell their stories to the class.

Studying for the Science Test

Today I read with Fitian, Shayma, Ward, Kareem, Maya, and Rifaat.

Today we studied for our science test tomorrow. Students should be studying tonight.


Adam, Shahed, Narmeen and Amelia told their stories to the class and did a great job. Tomorrow Shayma, Lilia, Rifaat, Fitian, and Kareem will tell their stories.

The students have homework tonight.

Writing Today

I read with Taleb, Masoud, Lyana, Beesan, and Shahed today.

We worked on writing today and students wrote "The scariest thing in the world is __________." Some of the students did not finish so they need to finish writing tonight. Parents, please do not write for the students. They need to do it by themselves. If I think they didn't write it, they will do it again.

Today Beesan, Ameed, Mohammed, Ward, Taleb and Omar A. told their stories to the class. Great job. Tomorrow Adam, Shahed, Lyana, Narmeen, Amelia will tell their stories.

Students have past tense homework tonight.

The Goblins have reading homework tonight.

Life is Highway

Here is the song....

Sunday December 18th

We practice using the past tense in class today and using it correctly when we talk.

I read with Ameed, Adam, Amelia, and Omar A.

We are doing storytelling again this week. Students need to tell the class a story about a time when they were younger. Here is the schedule for the week.

Monday (tomorrow): Mohammed, Ward, Taleb, Omar A., Beesan, Ameed.

Tuesday: Adam, Shahed, Lyana, Narmeen, Amelia.

Wednesday: Shayma, Lilia, Fitian, Rifaat, Kareem.

Thursday: Maya, Ali, Tareq, Masoud.

We have our science test on Wednesday.

Tests and Singing Competition

The students had art so today was a short day in class. The students had a spelling test and vocabulary test. I've graded the spelling tests the the students did well.

Ali, Lyana, Tareq, Masoud, and Ameed got a perfect score on the spelling test. Good job!

We also sang in the singing competition and the students did a great job.

Tareq, Masoud, Nareem, and Adam told their stories to the class today. They did a very good job.

Science and Disease

We had science and talked about disease and how your body protects you from getting sick.

Today I read with M.S., Tareq, Lilia, Narmeen, and Ali

Shayma, Lilia, Ali, Kareem, Fitian, Rifaat, Taleb, and Maya told their stories to the class today and they did a great job.

Tomorrow Narmeen, Beesan, Adam, Masoud, and Tareq will tell their stories to the class.

We also worked on context clues in class. Context clues are when the students have to find out what a new word means by looking at the other words in the sentence. This was the first time and they did a great job with it.

Tomorrow there will be a vocabulary and spelling test in class. Study.

Conditionals and Storytelling

We practiced future conditionals today and most of the students have homework tonight. When we write future conditionals we do this....

If + pronoun + verb (present), pronoun + verb (future).

Today I read with Shayma, Rifaat, Fitian, Maya, Ward, and Kareem.

Shahed, Ameed, Ward, Lyana, Mohammed, Omar, and Amelia told their stories to the class today. They all did a great job.

Storytelling for tomorrow: Shayma, Lilia, Ali, Kareem, Fitian, Rifaat, and Taleb

Goblins have reading homework tonight.

We had writing today.

Today I read with Beesan, Masoud, Lyana, and Shahed.

We worked on writing today and the students wrote essays about "If I had a billion shekels." The essays look really good and I'll read them soon.

We also work on the future conditional. We will do more with this tomorrow.

The Goblins have reading homework.

Some of the students will tell their stories to the class tomorrow.

Students have vocabulary and spelling to study for Thursday.

Storytelling.

This week we aren't doing a drama, instead the students will be telling stories to the class. The need to practice their stories before they tell them to the class.

Remember to use the past tense when you are telling your story.

Your story must be more that 30 seconds and less than 2 minutes.

I will be in the teacher's room or our classroom before and after school and on the break on
Tuesday to help your with your story.

We also worked on unreal conditionals today.

If + pronoun + verb (past tense), pronoun + would + verb (present tense)

Today I read with Omar A., Amelia, Adam, and Ameed.

The Goblins have reading homework tonight.

We have a spelling test on Thursday. Here are the words.

friend, favorite, because, when, beating, closer, goodnight, isn't, leaving, digging, empty,
telephone, studied, tables, waiting.

We also have a vocabulary test on Thursday.

bother, brain, message, reflex, sweet, silver, cheer, joy, bridge, organism, disease, sweat, cough

Extra vocabulary: The Goblins have to study these and other students can too.

spinal cord, meek, bold, tale, pound, tears

New video for the song

Here is a new video that will hopefully work better.

Writing and Dramas

Today I read with Rifaat, Shayma, Ward, Maya, Kareem, and Omar F.

We finished writing today and the student did a great job. By the end of the semester I want all the student to be able to write 3 paragraphs. Right now a lot of students are and some are writing four. They are doing a great job.

The students are also performing their dramas this week and they are doing very well.

The students need to study their spelling.

The Goblins have reading homework.

Phrase of the Week (12/4)

Don't forget to use the phrase of the week.....

Got up on the wrong side of the bed!

Carol of the Bells and Quotations

Today I read with Adam, Amelia, Omar A., and Ameed.

We worked on using quotations and how to use them in our writing. Student have a short homework where they need to write quotation marks in sentences and then write two of their own sentences with quotation marks.

We also started a new song, Carol of the Bells. It is our hardest song yet but we have the singing competition in a few weeks. Here is the video.





Tonight the Goblins have reading homework. Use the dictionaries and don't forget to bring them back to school tomorrow.

Group 1 will perform the drama tomorrow.