April Fool’s Day!

Today is April Fool’s Day. I would love it if you sent a video of you telling a Joke! I’ll give you bonus points if you can tell a joke in English!

Writing

This week we are reading about an auth. So this week’s Writing assignment, is to Write about your  favorite Author. Here is what you will be graded upon

• Paragraph one
  • You must tell me the name of the Author.
  • Tell me about the Author,
    • Where are they from
    • When / why the started to write.
    • Other information.
• Paragraph two
  • You must tell me some of the books they have written.
  • You must tell me what one of those books is about
  • You must tell me why you like that book.
• Paragraph three
  • You must tell me about the fame
    • Did the get awards? Which ones?
    • Was a movie it tv show made of the it book?
    • Are they famous?
• All paragraphs will be checked for
  • Pronoun use
  • Possessives use
  • Spelling
  • Subject verb agreement.

The writing first draft is due on Monday, Final Draft is due on Friday April 8th.

Just a reminder, any work you have can be passed in before Friday. If you give me before Friday I can help you to get the correct answers. But if you pass the work in on Friday I will not be able to help you correct them.

Today there are a few Review worksheets. Most of them should be easy. But if you have any trouble please ask me how to do them. There are 7 pages, but there is no reading comprehension today. You may also look at the videos for help.

Help for the first worksheet here

Help for the second worksheet here

Help for the third & fourth worksheet here

Help for the fifth worksheet here

Help for the sixth worksheet here

Help for the seventh worksheet is here

News

Quiz

This Friday we will be having  our first quiz of the semester, and our first quiz online. Because of this we will be doing some review  of the concepts, Each day I will post the old videos again for you to see. If you  are  worried  about your internet connection, let me know BEFORE THURSDAY! On Thursday I will be sending out the quiz codes, then on Friday morning  I will send out the weblink to the test And a short video of how to log in and do the quiz. Those who have contacted me about bad internet,  will receive a copy of the quiz by Wechat to print up, or do in a notebook page.

Raz-Kids

Over the last week, the following students went up a level in Raz-kids:

• Amy Chen is now Level P
• Ada Liu is now Level J
• Peter Liu is now Level Y
• Kevin Zheng went up 2 levels from Level J to level L
• Farrel  Chen is now Level X
• Daniel Du is now Level U
• Alex Sun is now Level Q
• Felix Yang is now Level Q

During last week Alex Sun and Ada Liu both managed 5 perfect quizes in Raz- Kids.

Answers

New Work:

Today I would like you to choose 1 day of Greg’s life (from Wimpy Kid) and rewrite it as if you are Greg.

You can change what you do, but you cannot change what other people do or events. (Same gifts, toys, things. Only now you are in charge)

Today is Friday the 13th! Spooky!💀

Today the Invention writing is due. Is am not accepting drafts today. All writing passed in will be marked. If I do not recieve it, then I will mark the last draft I have seen and it will be posted with all corrections in red….😱

Please take time to finish you Raz- Kids & Education.com work.

If you cannot get into Raz-kids, read any story from have by wechat to me.

If you cannot get into Education.com, let me know I will send some worksheets for you to practice the same skills.

To Start Off with, the Vocabulary Page has been updated with this week’s words

Please feel free to try the games and activities to practice your vocabulary. But todays work is to start your final draft of your Writing (Inventions) that is due on Friday.

I have also edited the Weekly report format again, (Sorry) Due to some students having technical difficulties, I have made the digital work equal to the Non-Digital. So reading a Raz-Kids Book to me (Through Recording) Now has the same value as Reading our Passages. What this means is If you are unable to get into Raz-Kids, please let me know, then read to me something short from your home library, and I will mark you as having recorded, and give you the appropriate number of starts on the program as well.

Most of the Education.com work this week is online lessons for reviewing the grammar we have done already, and as such, I will only be grading the games. The online lessons are good for your review though, so don’t skip them. If you cannot get into Education.com, through the website, or  the APP (It has been strange lately) Let me know, and I will send you a worksheet to review the same material.

Today we will be reading about the zipper, a wonderful invention. Please read the story from the file below, then read it to me on Wechat. If you are shy bout the rest of the class hearing you, then you can send it to me directly.

Listen to the story on the video

After you have done that, please review your Subject Verb Agreement. from the same file. This is also reviewed in your Education.com work

View the video for help

News

Raz-Kids

Over the last week, the following students went up a level in Raz-kids:

• Gordon Zhang is now Level H
• Owen Cai is now Level K
• Elsa Ling is now Level Y

During last week Bella Han managed 4 perfect quizes in Raz- Kids.

Upcoming Quiz

Friday March 20th will be our first quiz. To help prepare for this, There are grammar Lessons and Games in Education.com that will help you get ready.

If you cannot connect to Raz-kids or Education.com please inform me right away. If problems persits I will give you offline alternatives.

The Quiz Next Friday is an online quiz, so again if you are having difficulties will your internet, you need to let me know, and I will send you a printable copy.

Answers

New Work:

Please read through the current selection from Wimpy Kid and answer the quesions.

Research & Writing

This week I would like you to look on the internet and find an invention with an interesting story behind how it was made.

You have until Friday March 13th ( next Friday)

I expect the article to have:

• a picture of the invention,
• a picture of the inventor
• Good spelling
• Good use of adverbs
• Good use of adjectives
• Long & short sentences
• Good subject-verb agreement
• 2 or 3 paragraphs.

You may type it up or handwrite it, but it must be clear and easy to read.

First drafts are due on Monday March 9th.

Do not send these to the class reading group. Send them directly to me on Wechat.

We with be reading the story “Velcro” today and trying to answer the questions related to it.

Watch the video here

Afterwards we are learning about Subjects and Predicates.

Subjects can be one or more nouns that are the focus or a sentence.

Predicates describe what a Subject is, or what the subject does.

Watch the video here