May 8th

Hi everybody!!

Friday again!! (finally)

 

Today we will continue working with the reading "The Young Healer". 
 

We will go over the story again and we will answer the questions that you had to answer as homerwork.


After that, we will discuss "The War with Grandpa", chapters 12 and 13. For next Friday, answer these questions below on your folder (Literature section) and read chapters 14 and 15.

1)  Who are Steve and Billy?

2) What does Steve tell Peter to do about grandpa?

3) What kind of fight is "gorilla warfare"?

4) What does the title "A Light in the Attic" refer to? What does 'light' mean here?

HOMEWORK: For NEXT Wednesday, read the story "The Tilting Tree" in order to be able to discuss it in class.  Here is the link: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QG8js3BneYLodNUKlwx8r0ghX8ytZQCj/view

See you at three!!
Air hugs!
Miss Meli

May 7th

May 6th

Hi everyone!!

Today we are going to work on the reading: "The Young Healer". Look at these pictures, what do you think the reading is going to be about? Where are these people? What are they doing? How are they feeling?

Now go to page 101 and 102 in your Compass and read the story:

Now copy the following questions on your folder and answer them:
1) What does Maryam want to be in the future? Why?
2) What does she want to do?
3) Who was her first patient? What happened to the doll?
4) What does the boy want to be?
5) What does the nurse think about the boy?
6) What does the other boy, Tarek, want to be after the war?

Now go to page 102, read the story again and match the words with the characters, do it on the book:

Now answer the questions from page 102 on your folders:

We will continue working with this during our meeting at 3 pm.
Last, but not least, remember to send me your writings, those who haven't done it yet!
Please copy the theory from the following power point presenatation

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U_jiqJAm1Opgkkgqg4TSY6yo_sU2-v4J/view

And you will also have to work on your Liveworksheet account with WILL or WON'T 


See you later!!!
Miss Meli

May 5th (2)

May 5^th (2)

Hello again!!!

It was so nice to see you all!!!

As part of today's class, I will ask you to write on your folders (language notes) the following information (include everything up to the double line):

Topic 6: What challenges do humans face?

We discuss the different challenges that affect the world today, for example:

• Access to education
• Air pollution
• Wars
• Refugees
• Access to clean water
• Intolerance of diversity
• CORONAVIRUS!!!
• Etc...

Useful vocabulary:

Ethnicity: the fact of belonging to a social group that has a common cultural tradition.

Refugee: a person who leaves home to find a safer place in a foreign country because of political trouble, war, etc.

Scarcity: a situation in which something is not easy to find or get.

Civil war: a war between political groups or regions within the same country

Health care: the provision of medical care to individuals or a community.

Convention on the Rights of the Child

It is a treaty signed by most countries in the world on September 20, 1989. It establishes the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children.

In Argentina, this convention was ratified in 1990 and included in our National Constitution in 1994.

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Here you will find more information about it

https://www.unicef.org.au/Upload/UNICEF/Media/Our%20work/childfriendlycrc.pdf

After you wrote all of the above, go to your Liveworksheet account and complete the new exercise. When you finish, come back to your folder and write some of the rights included in the Convention.

Please watch the Grammar video ( will/won’t) again and I will post the power point presentation tomorrow for you to copy it.

That's all for today!!!
See you tomorrow!!

Miss Meli