Class on 1/27/11

We reviewed To Be

            Present                         Past:

            I           am                   was

            You     are                   were   

            She/he  is                     was

            We       are                   were                  

            They    are                   were

We reviewed our Pretest and re-wrote all corrections in our notebooks

            REWRITE = REWORK, ask questions make sure you understand all the corrections.

Small group discussions: What did I learn in Mr Palma’s class yesterday? From the student’s ideas we wrote the following paragraph:

            “I learned many things in last night’s class. We discussed the importance of our own experiences and expectation about education. We will be listening to a radio program that shares different culture’s experiences in the American Educational system. We know that through the blogs and other means we will continue to share our own perspectives as we learn more about the history of early childhood education.”

Individually students were asked to build their own lists from the following questions:

Where does learning take place?

Who helps young children learn?

VOCABULARY/SPELLING WORDS

PLACES

Home

Family

Preschool

Library

Community center

Museum

Church

Street

Daycare

Friendships

PEOPLE/PROFESSIONS

Teacher

Grandparents

Friends

Cousins

Sister

Brother

Uncle

Aunt

Babysitter

Homework:

Study all the vocabulary words above: make sure you can spell every word.

Choose 10 and write sentences with the vocabulary word and a To Be in the past. Use all variants. For example:   "In Mexico I was a high school teacher."