Mel's 10EAL

This week is Spring Break, so I will not be posting assignments on the blog until after the break. School-at-home will start again on Monday, April 6. Students do not need to work on any school assignments during the break. However, if you would like to continue working on your English skills during the break, I have listed some extra work, activities, free movies, videos, and games that you may find interesting at the bottom of this post. I will not be checking my email regularly this week.

Please click the download button below for important information on how to access food during the Covid-19 Pandemic:

Covid – How to Access Free Food

Please click the download button below for important information and contact information on accessing community based supports during the Covid-19 Pandemic:

Community Based Supports During Covid-19 Pandemic:

Please click on this link for important information from WAEC:

https://winnipegadulteducationcentrestudentservices.wordpress.com/

Criterion On Demand has now opened up home access for students to watch free movies. You can access many free movies to watch at home. Click on this link to go to the website: https://www.criterionondemand.com/

To log in, use this username and password:

Username: 9402001

Password: wsdteach

*School (at home) will start again on Monday, April 6.

Have a safe and healthy Spring Break! 🙂

Here are some great FREE resources for you and your families to use over the break:

This website has lots of great free online books for you and your children to read: virtual.knowbuddyresources.com
User: info@knowbuddyresources.ca
Password: KNOWBUDDY

Here is an interesting Current Events booklet, What in the World?, with some global and international articles and work that you may find interesting, including an article about Covid-19. There are answer keys at the end of each section (*The password for this download is virus3):

CBC has opened up access to some great videos: https://curio.ca/en/

Criterion On Demand has now opened up home access for students to watch free movies at home.

Go to: https://www.criterionondemand.com/

Username: 9402001 Password: wsdteach

Free Interactive Games to Practice English Skills:

https://www.gamestolearnenglish.com/

https://www.englishclub.com/esl-games/

https://www.arcademics.com/

https://www.gamesforthebrain.com/

https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/games/abc-countdown

https://www.english-online.org.uk/games/gamezone2.htm

This week is Spring Break, so I will not be posting assignments on the blog until after the break. School-at-home will start again on Monday, April 6. Students do not need to work on any school assignments during the break. However, if you would like to continue working on your English skills during the break, I have listed some extra work, activities, free movies, videos, and games that you may find interesting at the bottom of this post. I will not be checking my email regularly this week.

Please click the download button below for important information on how to access food during the Covid-19 Pandemic:

Covid – How to Access Free Food

Please click the download button below for important information and contact information on accessing community based supports during the Covid-19 Pandemic:

Community Based Supports During Covid-19 Pandemic:

Please click on this link for important information from WAEC:

https://winnipegadulteducationcentrestudentservices.wordpress.com/

Criterion On Demand has now opened up home access for students to watch free movies. You can access many free movies to watch at home. Click on this link to go to the website: https://www.criterionondemand.com/

To log in, use this username and password:

Username: 9402001

Password: wsdteach

*School (at home) will start again on Monday, April 6.

Have a safe and healthy Spring Break! 🙂

Here are some great FREE resources for you and your families to use over the break:

This website has lots of great free online books for you and your children to read: virtual.knowbuddyresources.com
User: info@knowbuddyresources.ca
Password: KNOWBUDDY

Here is an interesting Current Events booklet, What in the World?, with some global and international articles and work that you may find interesting, including an article about Covid-19. There are answer keys at the end of each section (*The password for this download is virus3):

CBC has opened up access to some great videos: https://curio.ca/en/

Criterion On Demand has now opened up home access for students to watch free movies at home.

Go to: https://www.criterionondemand.com/

Username: 9402001 Password: wsdteach

Free Interactive Games to Practice English Skills:

https://www.gamestolearnenglish.com/

https://www.englishclub.com/esl-games/

https://www.arcademics.com/

https://www.gamesforthebrain.com/

https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/games/abc-countdown

https://www.english-online.org.uk/games/gamezone2.htm

Idiom of the Day:

Laugh of the Day:

Good Afternoon Class!

I hope that you are all well. Thank you to those students who have emailed their writing assignments to me. I have received paragraphs from:

1. Amir
2. Arshad
3. Hadijah
4. Sadia
5. Tiblets
6. Rejae
7. Shireen
8. Abeba

I still need to receive the written assignment from:

1. Mussie
2. Ilyan
3. Senait
4. Shamsedin
5. Selam
6. Jacky
7. Cyusa
8. Lucky
9. Mohamad

I will continue to mark this assignment and will email it back to you when I am finished. Some students have not contacted me yet. Please send me an email today, so that I know you are working and checking the blog. In order to complete this course and get your credit, you will need to continue to do the assignments at home, so please contact me today with an email. I have not yet received an email from the following students:

• Mussie
• Shamsedin
• Selam
• Jacky
• Cyusa
• Lucky
• Mohamad

I know these are stressful times and some of you may not feel able to focus on your school work at this time. Please know that you can get caught up when you are ready and I will accept your work later if you need more time. I do, however, encourage you to try to spend some time on improving your English skills each day. It is a good way to take your mind off the Coronavirus pandemic and focus on something that you can control -your learning.

For students who have not done the written assignment, please go to Monday’s blog post to read the instructions. If you did not do the assignment yet, please work on that today and email me a picture of your final good copy. I will mark it and send it back to you. If possible, please type your good copy of your paragraph and email it to me.

Today’s Lesson:

If you are finished the Who are Your Friends? booklet and have emailed me a picture of your paragraph, here are some activities you should work on today. We will not start the new lessons and Malala book until after spring break to give everyone a chance to get caught up. You can choose what you want to work on from the list below. Spend 2 hours working on any of these activities:

• Singular and Plural Possessive Nouns worksheets
• Definite and Indefinite Articles booklet
• Past Continuous booklet
• Read a book or article for pleasure
• Write a paragraph about any topic in your journal
• Read this article about the benefits of watching movies to improve your English: https://www.gonaturalenglish.com/top-10-movies-learning-english/
• Click on this link to go to CBC Curio’s free website to access free videos. Choose what you would like to watch: https://curio.ca/en/

REMINDERS:

Next week is Spring Break, so today will be the last day that I post assignments on the blog until after the break. School-at-home will start again on Monday, April 6. Students do not need to work on any school assignments during the break. However, if you would like to continue working on your English skills during the break, I will post some extra work that you may find interesting. I will not be checking my email regularly next week.

Please click on this link for important information from WAEC:

https://winnipegadulteducationcentrestudentservices.wordpress.com/

Criterion On Demand has now opened up home access for students to watch free movies. You can access many free movies to watch at home. Click on this link to go to the website: https://www.criterionondemand.com/

To log in, use this username and password:

Username: 9402001

Password: wsdteach

*School (at home) will start again on Monday, April 6.

Have a safe and healthy Spring Break! 🙂

Idiom of the Day:

Laugh of the Day :):

Good Afternoon Class!

Thank you to those students who have emailed their writing assignments to me. I will continue to mark them and will email them back to you when I am finished. Some students have not contacted me yet. Please send me an email today, so that I know you are working and checking the blog. In order to complete this course and get your credit, you will need to continue to do the assignments at home, so please contact me today with an email. I have not yet received an email from the following students:

• Mussie
• Shamsedin
• Selam
• Jacky
• Lucky
• Cyusa
• Mohamad
• Hadijah

I know these are stressful times and some of you may not feel able to focus on your school work at this time. Please know that you can get caught up when you are ready and I will accept your work later if you need more time. I do, however, encourage you to try to spend some time on improving your English skills each day. It is a good way to take your mind off of the Coronavirus pandemic and focus on something that you can control -your learning.

Yesterday, students continued to work on writing a paragraph about one friend. Please go to Monday’s blog post to read the instructions. If you did not do the assignment yet, please work on that today and email me a picture of your final good copy. I will mark it and send it back to you. If possible, please type your good copy of your paragraph and email it to me.

Today’s Lesson:

If you are finished the Who are Your Friends? booklet and have emailed me a picture of your paragraph, here are some activities you should work on today. We will not start the new lessons and Malala book until after spring break to give everyone a chance to get caught up. You can choose what you want to work on from the list below. Spend 2 hours working on any for these activities:

• Singular and Plural Possessive Nouns worksheets
• Definite and Indefinite Articles booklet
• Past Continuous booklet
• Read a book or article for pleasure
• Write a paragraph about any topic in your journal
• Read this article about the benefits of watching movies to improve your English: https://www.gonaturalenglish.com/top-10-movies-learning-english/

REMINDER:

Next week is Spring Break, so tomorrow will be the last day that I post assignments on the blog until after the break. School-at-home will start again on Monday, April 6. Students do not need to work on any school assignments during the break. I will not be checking my email regularly next week.

Take Care and Stay Healthy! 🙂

Idiom of the Day:

Good Afternoon Class! Watch this video for some laughs :):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAPWmZoOUow

Thank you to those students who have emailed their writing assignments to me. I will finish marking them today and email them back to you. Some students have not contacted me yet. Please send me an email today, so that I know you are working and checking the blog. In order to complete this course and get your credit, you will need to continue to do the assignments at home, so please contact me today with an email. I have not yet received an email from the following students:

• Mussie
• Shamsedin
• Selam
• Jacky
• Lucky
• Suahil
• Cyusa
• Mohamad
• Rezwana
• Hadijah
• Haja

Yesterday, students continued to work on writing a paragraph about one friend. Please go to Monday’s blog post to read the instructions. If you did not do the assignment yet, please work on that today and email me a picture of your final good copy. I will mark it and send it back to you. If possible, please type your good copy of your paragraph and email it to me.

Here are the answer keys for 2 pages from the Past Continuous booklet.:

Today’s Lesson:

If you are finished the Who are Your Friends? booklet and have emailed me a picture of your paragraph, here are some activities you should work on today. We will not start the new lessons and Malala book until after spring break to give everyone a chance to get caught up. You can choose what you want to work on from the list below.

Spend 2 hours working on any of these activities:

• Singular and Plural Possessive Nouns worksheets
• Definite and Indefinite Articles booklet
• Past Continuous booklet
• Read a book or article for pleasure
• Write a paragraph about any topic in your journal
• Watch some of the YouTube clips below

Take care and stay healthy! 🙂

Good Afternoon! Welcome to Day 2 of your home school journey!

Yesterday, I only received 2 students’ written assignments through email (thanks Amir and Arshad!). I am hoping to receive more today. Please email me, even if you’re not finished, so that I can see who is reading my blog and working on the assignments. I would like to be able to contact each of you through email, but I don’t have all of your addresses. So, if your name is listed below, please send me a short email message today.

My email: mfenton@wsd1.org

*I need the following students’ email addresses:

• Mussie
• Shamsedin
• Tarfa
• Selam
• Jacky
• Lucky
• Suahil
• Cyusa
• Mohamad
• Sadia
• Rezwana

Yesterday, students worked on writing a paragraph about one friend. Please go to Monday’s blog post to read the instructions. If you did not do the assignment yet, please work on that today and email me a picture of your final good copy. I will mark it and send it back to you.

Today’s Lesson:

If you are finished the Who are Your Friends? booklet and have emailed me a picture of your paragraph, here are some activities you should work on today. We will not start the new lessons and Malala book for a few days to give everyone a chance to get caught up. You can choose what you want to work on from the list below.

Spend 2 hours working on any of these activities:

• Singular and Plural Possessive Nouns worksheets
• Definite and Indefinite Articles booklet
• Past Continuous booklet
• Read a book or article for pleasure
• Write a paragraph about any topic in your journal
• Watch some of the YouTube clips below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDP5A_9qC50

Have a good day and stay healthy! 🙂

Good Afternoon!

I hope you are all well. I will try my best to help you continue your schooling from home. If you have any questions, please email me: mfenton@wsd1.org

*I would like to be able to contact students by email. However, I do not have all of your email addresses. Please send me an email message so that I have your email addresses.

I am experimenting with different ways of meeting your educational needs at home, so please be patient and try your best to keep up with the work that I assign.

Today’s Lesson:

Hopefully, you all finished last week’s work. If not, please go back to my Thursday & Friday blogs (March 19 & 20), and follow the instructions. You should complete that work first.

1. Write Sentences About Your Friends – Pg. 31 . In your journals, draw 3 idea maps like the example in the unit. Use the idea maps to brainstorm about 3 different friends. Make sure to use some of the adjectives, nouns and verbs from the assignment.

2. Write a Paragraph About One Friend -Choose one of the idea maps and write a paragraph about one of your friends, using vocabulary words from the unit. *Don’t forget to include a topic sentence, detail sentences, and a concluding sentence. Your paragraph should include at least 5 – 7 sentences.

3. Edit and Revise your work, following the instructions on pg. 32 & 33.

4. If possible, take a photo of your final good copy and email it to me.

There is a homework package ready for each student who has been absent this week. Please go to the office any time today between 9:00 – 3:15 to pick it up or have someone else pick it up for you. This package is for students to take home to do during the school closure. This work package includes a new book for students to read, “Who is Malala Yousafzai?“ and a book study package to work on while reading this book. This is a library book, so students will need to return in once the school reopens. The package also includes a Reading, Writing and Vocabulary Workbook and students will also take home their journals to write in daily.

The expectation is that students will continue to work on the class lessons at home. I will post the daily lessons on this blog, so that students know what to do. If you have any questions, please email me. I will be available from 12:00 – 3:15 each school day to answer your questions.

Today, students should continue to work on the “Who are Your Friends?” unit.

Here is what you should have completed yesterday:

1. Complete the Different Kinds of Friends Vocabulary assignment.
2. Read the article, “Different Kinds of Friends.”
3. Complete the Comprehension Check and Building Word Families assignment.
4. Write a paragraph in your journal about your different kinds of friends, using some of the vocabulary words from the article.

Today’s Lesson:

1. Review Grammar Chart – Simple Present – pg. 27
2. Complete A. Write Questions Using “Do or Does”, B. Correct Mistakes, & C. Write Questions & Answers – pg. 28-29
3. Complete Writing Skill: Editing for Capitalization & Punctuation – pg. 29-30
4. Journals: View the Word Families Chart (below). Practice writing 2-sentence rhyming poems using some of the word families in your journals. The last word in each sentence should rhyme. See the examples below.

2-Sentence Rhyming Poem Examples:

I know a strange man

Who likes to drive a van.

Sam and Pam

Like to eat ham

*While the school is closed, I will post a lesson each day on this blog for students to follow. It is important that you check the blog daily and do the lessons so that you will not fall behind. I have given students much more than enough work, in case the schools end up closing for longer than 3 weeks. Follow my instructions and spend about 2 hours each day doing the work that I assign. Once the schools reopen, students will need to bring all the completed work back for me to mark, so it is important that you do the assignments and don’t fall behind. Students will also have to do some tests related to the homework once the school reopens, so make sure you follow the daily lessons and do the work.

My Email Address: mfenton@wsd1.org

The school will be closed from March 23 – April 10. Students return to school on Monday, April 13.

I hope to see you soon. Take care and stay healthy! 🙂

There is a homework package ready for each student who has been absent this week. Please go to the office any time today or tomorrow between 9:00 – 3:15 to pick it up or have someone else pick it up for you. This package is for students to take home to do during the school closure. This work package includes a new book for students to read, “Who is Malala Yousafzai?“ and a book study package to work on while reading this book. This is a library book, so students will need to return in once the school reopens. The package also includes a Reading, Writing and Vocabulary Workbook and students will also take home their journals to write in daily.

The expectation is that students will continue to work on the class lessons at home. I will post the daily lessons on this blog, so that students know what to do. If you have any questions, please email me. I will be available from 12:00 – 3:00 each school day to answer your questions.

Students should work on the Who are Your Friends? unit today. Here is your assignment:

1. Complete the Different Kinds of Friends Vocabulary assignment.
2. Read the article, “Different Kinds of Friends.”
3. Complete the Comprehension Check and Building Word Families assignment.
4. Write a paragraph in your journal about your different kinds of friends, using some of the vocabulary words from the article.

*While the school is closed, I will post a lesson each day on this blog for students to follow. It is important that you check the blog daily and do the lessons so that you will not fall behind. I have given students much more than enough work, in case the schools end up closing for longer than 3 weeks. Follow my instructions and spend about 2 hours each day doing the work that I assign. Once the schools reopen, students will need to bring all the completed work back for me to mark, so it is important that you do the assignments and don’t fall behind. Students will also have to do some tests related to the homework once the school reopens, so make sure you follow the daily lessons and do the work.

My Email Address:

mfenton@wsd1.org

My Blog:

ealfenton.home.blog

or go to Winnipeg Adult Education Centre website and click on Student Resources, Blogs, English & Humanities, Melanie, 10E

Schools will be closed from Monday, March 23 – April 10. Students will return to school on Monday, April 13.

I hope to see you soon. Take care and stay healthy! 🙂

Students will be given a work package to take home to do during the school closure. We will go through the Lesson 1 of the Reading, Writing & Vocabulary workbook to make sure students understand how to do the work. Students will also be given a new novel, “Who is Malala Yousafzai?“ and a book study package to work on while reading this book. This is a library book, so students will need to return in once the school reopens. Students will also take home their journals to write in daily.

For the next few days, students will be working on the “Who Are Your Friends?” unit in class. If students are working from home, they should work on this unit this week.

While the school is closed, I will post a lesson each day on this blog for students to follow. It is important that you check the blog daily and do the lessons so that you will not fall behind. I have given students much more than enough work, in case the schools end up closing for longer than 3 weeks. Follow my instructions and spend about 2 hours each day doing the work that I assign. If you have any questions, I will be available each day from 12:00 – 3:00 to answer your questions. Please email me with any questions you have. I may also answer questions on this blog for the whole class. I will also be posting extra information related to the assignments that I have given you. Once the schools reopen, students will need to bring all the completed work back for me to mark, so it is important that you do the assignments and don’t fall behind.

*Any students who have been absent this week can come in to pick up their work packages in the classroom or in the office. They will be available for you until this Friday, unless things change and the school has to close earlier. I will also post each lesson on the blog every school day.

My Email Address:

mfenton@wsd1.org

My Blog:

ealfenton.home.blog

or go to Winnipeg Adult Education Centre website and click on Student Resources, Blogs, English & Humanities, Melanie, 10E

Schools will be closed from Monday, March 23 – April 10. Students will return to school on Monday, April 13.

I hope to see you soon. Take care and stay healthy! 🙂