Page 5 - SN November - Grade 4

EAL

MS. DIVNA STAKIC

Intermediate Group

Dear Parents,

In October we finished the class project about Heroes. The EAL students presented their writing to
their peers. Students used the Two stars and a Wish peer assessment tool, to provide feedback to
each other. In grammar, we started reviewing basic parts of speech – nouns, verbs, adjectives, and
adverbs. The students practiced identifying them based on the function they have in each sentence.
Some students walked an extra mile, as they made connections with the parts of speech in their first
languages.
We also started supporting the transdisciplinary theme How We Express Ourselves – Music and
Dance Unit, with its central idea: Many ideas and feelings are conveyed through dance. We inquired
into the history of dance, messages that are revealed through dance, and how people globally connect
through dance. We viewed various video clips, and used adequate vocabulary and sentence structure
to describe what we saw. We also focused on communicative language function - expressing likes
and dislikes in a polite way, and using arguments to support our views.
Wonderful work, Grade 4!