I’m so excited. I really need to update the OS on my desktop. I’m running a very outdated version Fedora Linux. However, more recent versions haven’t played nice. I tried the Fedora 15 alpha a few weeks ago and was more than excited when it booted to a live desktop.
So, I present… The countdown to the official release!
At the end of February, our 7 year olds graduated from Maple Kinder. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend the event. However, Karin was kind enough to get a few pictures for me. I’m proud of what these students accomplished in the kindergarten. And I’m doubly proud of what they are accomplishing in the elementary school classes. Congratulations Spring and Winter Classes!
I love singing songs with my kiddos. The lower level course books usually have OK songs. This one is from “Let’s Go 2″ and is teaching ‘like’ and ‘want’.
The video features Winter Class, 4 1st graders and a kindergartener. Brian, Ella and Joy were in Maple Kinder. Amy and Juliet are new students.
Polaris Class is studying countable and uncountable nouns using foods. Their latest activity was to draw some foods on a table and the write sentences about them. For example… There is an apple on the table. There are three bananas on the table. There is some cheese on the table. I simply took the book activity and put it on the board. After cutting out various foods from flashcards each student came up and added one picture to the table on the board. They had to write a/an/some/number by the picture. When everyone had a turn, they had to write the sentences on the board. Then they repeated the exercise in their books on their own. repetition is the key to successful second language learning. By doing it as a group first, the class didn’t even realize they were doing it more than once.
Enjoy the pics!
I thought I’d post a few pictures of my classroom. Note the obsessively arranged books. Yup, classic Kathryn.
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