Monday or Tuesday

Choose something in your home that you loved when you were a small boy or girl. Bring it to school Monday.

We are going to do a project with these things. Don't forget.

See you Monday

School Starts Soon

I have a big surprise for you when you get back. Here are your questions:

1. What do you think Mr. Sean will give you?
2. Where do you live?
3. Do you like your father or mother better?
4. How many people live in your home?
5. What games are you good at?
6. When will you finish school?
7. Did you go to school, two days ago?









1. I think Mr. Sean will give us ____________.
2. I live in Nablus.
3. I like my ________ more than my ___________.
4. ______ people live in my home.
5. I am good at __________, ___________, and __________.
6. I will finish school _____________.
7. No I didn't.

More Questions

1. How many arms do you have?
2. Where are your feet?
3. What time do you wake up?
4. Is your favorite teacher Mr. Sean?
5. When will you go back to school?
6. Why aren't you in school today?
7. Do you watch TV before you go to bed?








1. I have two arms.
2. My feet are at the end of my legs.
3. I wake up at ________.
4. Yes he is.
5. I will go back to school next Sunday.
6. I am not in school because there is no school.
7. Yes I do.

Questions to Practice

1. Where did you learn to understand English?
2. Where did your mom live when she was a baby?
3. How many sisters does your father have?
4. Why did you check the blog today?
5. How many questions have you answered today?
6. Who is your favorite teacher?
7. When did you stop going to school?













1. I learned to understand English at school.
2. My mom lived in ________ when she was a baby.
3. My father has ______ sisters.
4. I checked the blog yesterday to ________________.
5. I have answered five questions today.
6. My favorite teacher is ____________.
7. I stopped going to school _______ days ago.

Questions to Practice

1. Where were you nine days ago?
2. Where will you be in nine days?
3. How many days have you been at home?
4. When did you meet Mr. Sean?
5. How many years will it take before you are 21?
6. Are you going to be happy when you come back to school?
7. Who is the slowest girl in class?















1. Nine days ago, I was in school.
2. I will be in school.
3. I have been at home for _______ days.
4. I met Mr. Sean in August.
5. It will take 10 years before I am 21.
6. Yes I am.
7. The slowest girl in the class is Zeina.

Questions to Practice

1. Where are you right now?
2. Who is the tallest teacher in the school?
3. Ten years ago, were you alive?
4. How many times did you go to school last week?
5. Where did you play football against Ms.Fatima's class?
6. What are you going to do this week?







1. I am at home.
2. The tallest teacher is Mr. Ameed.
3. No I wasn't or Yes I was.
4. I went to school ______ times last week.
5. I played football against Ms. Fatima's class on the playground.
6. This week I am going to ___________.

The Semester That Just Ended

Was very successful for 4B. Today we received the first fourth grade newsletter. It included stories written in whole or in part by many of our students.

Dania
Zakariya
Ahmed M.
Ahmed H.
Ahmed Q.

and several other students worked on stories for the newspaper. We are going to continue producing the newspaper around once a month.

Great work for everyone and I'll see you next semester.

Today's Class

Today, Sunday, the class was excellent. The students started strong and we easily finished the material in Spin. The top group did well with "The Duck" and the 1.5 group was better with "Abbie Burgess" than I expected.

The drama went well.

Tomorrow more work with the stories, we are going to write a story about Anan, and in our visit with Ms. Fatima, we are going to review the rooms of the house and which furniture and other things go in which rooms. Most of the students should have had this before so we won't belabor it

Specifically:

Stove
Toilet
Couch
Bed
Shower
Sink
TV

Living room
Dining room
Kitchen
Bathroom
Bedroom

This Week in 4B

We are going to be doing some more work in our Spin books. Starting with pages 54-55, we are going to work on using "used to." We will also be working on a new drama that mixes the different past tense forms we know.

This week the 2.1 group will work on "The Duck" and the 1.5 group will work on "Abbie Burgess." A lot of students will work on both because "The Duck" is one of the easier 2.1s and "Abbie" is one of the harder 1.5s. Depending on how the students do on these we may get to a second story in each book by Wednesday. That would be "The Bravest Cat" in 1.5 and either "Eye Spy" or "Furry Mouse" in 2.1.

We are also continuing to work on writing and the newspaper will finally be out this week. Sorry for the delay but my laptop problems have slowed production.

Should be a fun week.

This Year in 4B

I have been writing the students' grade paragraphs this week and I realized how much this class has changed in the past four months. It is always hard to bring new students into our school because they usually don't have enough English to keep up.

At the start of the year this was a big problem. Many of our new students couldn't keep up with the lessons, couldn't use sentences to answer questions and understood very little. When we started with Spin D, there were only six students in the class that could do it without a lot of help. All of these students were with us last year.

I am happy to say that this week when we returned to Spin D for the first time in around a month, almost all the students were able to complete the work independently. We have finishe four pages and I expect to get through more next week.

While I was writing the grades I realized how much some students had improved. Looking at the work they did in September and the work they are doing now is amazing. You should be very proud of your children and how hard they have worked.

I wanted to mentin several students specially.

Ahmed Hejawi, Ahmed Quaraish, Maria, and Miqdam have all made great strides this year. Ahmed Q. might be the top student in the class now. He always works hard, his speech is improving and his writing is much better. Ahmed H. has improved in every area as much as any student in the class.

Miqdam is the most improved student in speech and in singing. He is always excited to participate and he has come so far this year. Maria studies as effectively as any student in the class. She always does well on material that we have covered and she has also made great strides this year.

These aren't the only students whose progress I am very happy with but I wanted to take time to honor them because of how much hard work they do in class and out.

This Week in 4B

This will be a light week in 4B. Very little homework, not much new material, and nothing too difficult. The students are preparing for Arabic finals and that should provide enough stress.

Today we worked on a drama intended to refresh the students on the proper use of but. We also did some work on consonant blends that end words.

Tomorrow we will get started with should and that will include the long awaited return of the Spin D book.

We will also finish working with the Dinosaur Babies story in 1.5 and the Ugly Duckling in 2.1. Should be a fun and interesting week.