Family Activities

This week we took a look at two things. One was related to our own families and the activities that we do with them.  Students wrote paragraphs to reflect what they do with their families whether eating or going out to amusement.  We also practiced reading comprehension with numerous activities in writing and remembering information based on "family activity" in a fictional story about going to the amusement park and a family member got lost. The following pictures shows what we did:

Visual Outlines

This week we worked on writing sentences (sentence structure) in regards to sports.  Each student had to draw a mind-map or other visual for themselves to help as an outline for writing about the sport that they chose. The picture here is of one example of how students can use a visual outline in organizing their thoughts.

Week 11 Mindmap Final Presentation Visual Outline

One of the student assignments this week was to do individual (A1 level) or pair work (0 level) mindmaps based on their final presentation topics.  The students on both levels were challenged by the teacher to not just do a few subcategories with their topic but were encouraged for at least three sub-groups that went down to include several examples within their branches.  This visual outline is the first in prepping students to layout their work and provide enough information that they can study for their presentations or other skills in the future.