Saying Goodbye
Today was the last day for one of my high school first grade NELP students. She's moving to America and I sincerely wish her all the best, though I will miss her. We had a little goodbye party for her in class today..
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This Week in NELP
A couple of first graders 'got the giggles' in NELP class.
The second graders attempted to draw a person described in "Getting a Haircut in the Army", a non-fiction piece about a haircut-gone-wrong during the US Civil War.
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This week in NELP
Every day at 16:30, students are welcome to come to the NELP room to study, check out library books, talk and so on. Here are a couple of students using Open Room time to get books.
Here are the Junior High 3rd Grade students having a discussion about Chief Seattle's 1854 Oration.
Here is my High School 1st Grade Class.
Here the high school first grade class is preparing for their debate.
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Third Grade - Improvisation
This term, the junior high school third grade students are studying improvisation and extemporaneous speaking for their term project.
Today, the students improvised a situation loosely based on Monty Python's famous Parrot Sketch.
My only regret was that I didn't film them. They were hysterically funny and gave brilliant performances.
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Third Grade Class Discussion
This week, the junior high third grade NELP students had a GREAT discussion about one of our stories: "The Rock Garden" by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston.
We talked about the Manzanar Internment Center and about WWII. The students did a great job.
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2010 Video Project
Thanks to Seishin teacher Jeff, I have learned something new and useful: iDVD. iDVD is an Apple application that can create DVDs that can be played on any computer or a regular DVD player. It can also make DVD menus. It is superbly easy to use, and I'm quite happy with the results.
Here are a couple of screenshots from last year's first grade video project:
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New School Year, New Classes
The 2010-2011 School Year is off to a great start. Here are my junior high school classes.
First Grade has eleven students.
Second Grade has ten students now.
Third Grade has seven students.
Next week, we'll start our first readings.
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