I’m glad to see all of you after the long holiday. I hope you had a good time and had lots of fun and adventures. Now, it’s time to get back to work and become serious about learning once again.
There are a lot of changes in Term 2. I’ve already talked about how we are changing the Reading class from reading one novel each term to doing a variety of reading and writing activities each week. We will alternate text books from week to week. One week, we will be working from Way Ahead – Pupil’s Book 5. This is the book that Teacher Mal uses for his English Grammar lessons. My lessons will complement and expand on what Teacher Mal is doing; we will work on the “Reading for Fun” sections for each Unit in the book.
The weeks were aren’t using Way Ahead, we will work from a brand-new book called Writing Composition 5. The book is full of fun activities to do while we are learning to read and write better. Teacher Robyn also assures me that there will be a third student book coming later in the term which deals with poetry. So, we will be learning to read (and write) many different types of texts – from informational material to short stories to poetry to advertising and many others. I think the new course outline is much better than when we’d just read one book for the entire term – it will give more variety for the teacher and never become routine for the kids. The only real problem will be trying to fit everything into one 50-minute lesson per classroom each week!
T. Mark's Reading Factory 