Here's some photos of our Thursday morning. In the photos you can see our phonics bookwork writing time, and our Christmas speech practice. I was very happy to see the faster kids helping the slower kids with their bookwork. They are also getting much better at their Christmas speeches now, which is nice to see.

Here's some photos from our visit to the park on Wednesday. The kids had a great time, and we were very thankful for the great weather!

November's English class (with Teacher Eddie)

Hello parents and family! My name is Teacher Eddie and you may remember me from previous events at the HESS Datong school. I taught the Apple class for most of November, and during this time the students studied the 'Neighborhood' theme. In the theme part of class they learned a lot of place names, and some prepositions of position to help talk about them. Our sentence patterns asked where they were, where they wanted to go, and where they had to go. We also had a short part of the month that was dedicated to Thanksgiving. The students practiced how to say what they are thankful for. Also during the month we read the HESS phonics reader 8, which is named 'Vroom Vroom'. The students used this and the phonics workbook to study phonics, and focused mainly on long vowel sounds and consonant blends. I made a short video with each student to show their knowledge of these areas.

Also during this month the students continued their math and science studies. They completed several pages of math, focusing on numbers  between 10 and 20. They recently have started to study the concept of more and less. During science time the students studied day and night, and the solar system. You may have seen the day and night worksheet that the students took home with them. When we studied the solar system the students looked at all of the planets, and their position in relation to the sun. Sometimes during class we sang some classic kids' songs to break up the lessons. The kids especially liked the 'Teddy Bear' song.

I hope you enjoy the videos of your children studying English. I apologize for my unsteady hands, but I am not a great photographer!

Thanks,
Teacher Eddie