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

October Reading Viedo

Today for our first hour of class we made our sentence pattern video together and had a good time. Everyone did such a good job. Then we finished by playing game.

For our second hour of class we introduced Halloween for the month. We watched a couple cartoons together and the kids loved them. Then we talked about what we want to be for Halloween. Everyone is excited about this month and celebrating Halloween. We will be making decorations next week together for our classroom.

Welcome To The New Semester!

Hello Dear Parents,

Welcome back to the Apple Class Blog!

It have been long time no see in the website!

Teacher Cookie will help Apple Class to make the website every Tuesday!

In the semester, we will have new classmates!

          Jerry                                                                                                   Keanu

                                                 
                                                                        Audrey

                                                                           Tyler

Jenny

Howard

and Wendy

Teacher Cookie really hope you like the blog!

Enjoy~ <3

-Cookie

Reading Video: What's the Weather?

Here are videos of students reading sentence patterns from June's Theme Class. We talked a lot about the weather, using past tense "was" and future tense "will be". Connecting these words to "yesterday" and "tomorrow" will help students understand a little bit about the tenses. Enjoy!

Jerry

Jenny

Audrey

Howard

Cherry

Unit 6 Phonics Story

Apple Class reads Unit 6 Phonics Story:

It's a pig.
The kid hits the pig.
The kids hits the pig again.
The kid wins. 

Photo Updated (June 3 - June 13)

Photo Updated (June 3 - June 13)

Please check out the photo album for more pictures. 

Phonics Class

Toy Show and Tell

Park Day

June Birthday Party

Art Class: Piggy

Phonics Class

Toy Show and Tell

Reading Up On Top

Cooking Class: Cheesy Toast

Art Class; Rainbow Zebra