Ms. Hines' Grade 4 ESL Online Learning Forum
Dear Grade 4 students, For most of you students, this will be my second time teaching you, as I was on the Grade 2 team when you all were second graders! I’m very excited to see you all again and spend another school year with you! To those of you who were new last year, or are new this year, welcome! We are going to have so much fun! I am so lucky, because as the ESL teacher I have the opportunity to get to know each and every one of you! You may know that I teach ESL, but did you know that I also co-teach with your classroom teachers? So, I will be teaching all of you, every week! Now, there are over 100 fourth grade students, and I remember most of your names from Grade 2, but it might take me some time to remember ALL of your names, all the time. Be patient with me, and feel free to help me out! All of us here in Grade 4 are here to help and learn from one another! Let’s make this a fantastic year! All the best, Ms. Hines
Dear all, Thank you so much for such a wonderful year! As I look ahead to my new job posting in Munich, Germany, I can only hope that my students, colleagues, parents, and school are as wonderful as they have been here. Best of luck to all of you! Have a wonderful summer! My ISM email will be working through June Read full article »
Hello, and welcome back to my G4ESL blog! As promised, the rest of our digi-books are below, enjoy! Feel free to leave an encouraging comment for our young author/illustrators! Thanks! Elizabeth Hines **Please note that these are created with Microsoft PowerPoint. If you do not have this software you can download a free PowerPoint viewer HERE Read full article »
Hello, and welcome back to my G4ESL blog! Well, as the school year draws to a close, and the Grade 4 students are preparing for their transition to Middle School, my ESL students have been busy completing their “very cool projects” that I told you about last month. My students read the book, Higher on the Door, by James Stevenson, Read full article »
Dear Parents, I hope you received this letter that was sent home via email by Ms. Beetson on Friday. If you should have any questions at all, please feel free to contact me! Sincerely, Elizabeth This week ESL students in Grade 4 will be taking a standardized language test called WIDA MODEL. The test comprises speaking, listening, reading and writing components and will be used Read full article »
Hi! Welcome back to my G4ESL blog! Well, we’re in the midst of two short weeks in a row, MAPS testing, and we’ve just celebrated International Day, complete with a music concert! In terms of sharing with you what has been happening in ESL lately, I can say it has been very chaotic. So, for this posting I would like Read full article »
Hi! Welcome back to my G4ESL blog! This week Grade 4 students have continued with their MAPS testing, and begun to the “Tuning In” part of our new Unit of Inquiry, “Scientific Process”. ESL students continued to work on their “very cool new project”, making a memory book. Each student in the process of creating their own book based on Read full article »
Hi! Welcome back to my G4ESL blog! As per usual, we’ve had another busy week. It’s hard to believe Spring Break was only a week ago! Since our return, the G4 students have finished up any remaining business they had connected to their Child Rights Performance task and have been introduced to their final Grade 4 Unit of Inquiry, “The Read full article »
Hi! I hope you all have enjoyed the SLC student feedback from my earlier post, I thought you might be interested in what some of the SLC parent feedback has been! Thank you parents for you kind words and for your support! Enjoy your Spring Break! Elizabeth Parent Feedback from SLCs – March 2011 1. These are many interesting and funny activities to help children Read full article »
Hi! Welcome back to my G4ESL blog! Most of the feedback I have received indicates that many visitors and students felt that there was not enough time to show and discuss everything that they wanted to see and share. I am posting the Powerpoint that I made that was looping during the Student-Led Conferences. If missed a station, or did Read full article »
Welcome back to my G4ESL Blog! Student-Led Conferences (SLCs) were Tuesday, and the feedback I have received from both students and parents has been overwhelmingly positive! I asked my students to reflect in their Learning Journals about their SLCs. I gave them some guiding questions. 1. How do you feel about the ESL student-led conferences yesterday, and why? 2. What did you Read full article »
Hi! Welcome back to my ESL blog! Please click below to view the final remaining Persuasive Videos! Feel free to leave a comment! Thank you! Sincerely, Elizabeth Hines Read full article »
Hi! Welcome back to my G4ESL blog! As promised, here are more Persuasive Videos! I'll keep posting them as the children finish relecting and peer assessing them! Check back often! Please feel free to leave a comment! Thanks, Elizabeth Hines Read full article »
Hi! Welcome back to my ESL blog! Last week my students finished recording their Persuasive letters to their parents and reflected in their Learning Journals on how they felt after doing their Persuasive Vado Videos. My students started viewing their videos and give themselves and their peers assessments and feedback. The highlight of the week in Grade 4 ESL was Read full article »
Hi! Welcome back to my G4ESL blog! As promised, here are three more of the Persuasive writing videos. I will continue to add more as they are self- and peer- assessed until all are posted, so check back often! Please, (Really, please!) feel free to leave a comment. Also, please have a discussion with your child about the (long and involved) Read full article »
Hi! Welcome back to my G4ESL Blog! Wow, and I thought last week was busy! This week the Grade 4s sat for the ERB, an externally scored writing assessment. The G4ESL students took it with me and had the benefit of scaffolding and extra time. We also had Sports Day today, check your classroom teacher’s blog for pictures. I was Read full article »
Hi! Welcome back to my G4ESL blog! Well, another week has come and gone! Isn’t this year flying by? This week was incredibly busy and full of changes to our usual schedule. On Monday, Ms. Pat in the CMC and Ms. Jen from ES IT led some more student workshops centered on research and proper citation of sources. On Tuesday, Read full article »
Hi, and welcome back to my G4ESL Blog! Remember last week when I was telling you about how the students put their listening skills to work in order to draw a map that would later become their playing board for a game? Well, on Monday the students all took part in playing, “Escape from Chance Island!” using their island maps. Read full article »
This week saw the ESL students engaged in some varied activities. Some students continued to practice their oral language skills, while focusing on the proper use of prepositions of place. This was done by playing a prepositions board game, describing some action photos, as well as playing some more barrier games wherein students were in pairs, and one student gave Read full article »
Hi! Welcome back to my Grade 4 ESL blog! There is a famous proverb, thousands of years old, that in English is, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” Do you have a similar saying in your language? This week we were very busy and productive! All my students worked very hard to finish their vacation writing piece Read full article »
Dear Parents, In Grade 4 we have just started our new Unit of Inquiry: Child Rights. Our Unit of Inquiry essential questions are “Why do we need rights?” “How are rights upheld by me and others?” and “What are the responsibilities that go along with rights?” This Unit of Inquiry has many vocabulary words which will be new to all G4 students. Read full article »
Fun and interesting audio-visual storybooks for every reading level! Some even have quizzes! Students can access the site by using the same login and password they use at school.
BrainPOP is an animated, fun, online learning portal. In addition to supplementary English videos, students can choose to learn more about Science, Math, Arts & Music, and Technology! Brain POP is geared for Grade 4 students and higher, so some of the languae used may be difficult, but there is a "cc" option that you can click for subtitles. After each video there are quizzes, and other fun extention activities students can do to test their knowledge. Students have access 7AM - 5:30PM (Manila time), using their login and password they use at school.
BrainPOP Jr is another animated, fun, online learning portal. BrainPOP Jr is like BrainPop, but is geared for grades K-3, so the language may be more easily understood, especially for the students who are new English language learners. In addition to supplementary English learning videos, students can chose to learn more about Science, Math, Reading & Writing, Social Studies, Health ,and now Arts and Technology! After each video in Brain Pop Jr., students can… • Draw about it • Write about it • Read about it • Talk about it • Play a related game • Learn vocab on the word wall • Pop a Joke • Read a comic (Belly up) or • Take a Quiz! Students have access 7AM - 5:30PM (Manila time), using their login and password they use at school.
Ms. Hines