This Week in NELP

This was a busy week in NELP. Here are the latest pictures!

The First Graders have started doing cooperative writing. This means that students show their writing to another student. They check each other's writing, give suggestions, and hopefully learn some new writing techniques from each other.

Here are some pictures of the First Graders engaging in a discussion about their first reading. Their first reading was "The Wayfarer" by Stephen Crane, a part of his larger work "War is Kind".

Here is a picture of the Second Graders during reading time.

I don't have a picture of the Second Graders' discussion time, but their first reading was the poem "Opportunity" by Edward Rowland Sill.

Here's this term's class picture of the Third Grade.

Here the Third Graders are having a discussion about their first reading: "Ulysses" Alfred Lord Tennyson.

This term, all three grades began doing formal debates. Here are a couple pictures of the First Graders preparing for their first debate.

The First Graders' debate topic was "Should the Media Stop Reporting Negative News about the Government?"

Here are pictures of the Second Graders preparing for their debate.

The Second Graders' debate topic was "Should Young People Be Required to Give One Year of Compulsory Public Service in Japan?"

Here are some pictures of the Third Graders preparing for their debate.

The Third Graders' debate topic was "Should We Pass a Law Requiring Elderly People to Have Supervision or a Person Appointed to be Responsible for Them?"