You might have seen a note come home with your student today asking them to bring a soup recipe to ELD class on Monday, October 10th. Students can write the recipe on paper, print it off from a computer, or take a picture of a recipe and email it to me at [email protected]
We will be looking at the language used when writing a recipe, how to clearly communicate directions, and respond to questions about our recipes. Eventually, we will assemble all student recipes together in a book to take home and share with families. Thank you to our first family that already sent their recipe for "Garden Soup Vegetable" soup. This sounds delicious! Thank you!
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Now that students have a clear understanding of fruits and vegetables, they were asked to define both and give examples. This task requires students to adapt their language choices in order to communicate similarities and differences. This skill is useful not just in ESL, but in all subjects. In school, students might be asked to find similarities and differences between two characters in a book. When buying a car, it is important to compare and contrast different cars so you can make a decision about the best car for you. In the grocery store. When shopping for apples in the store, you might have to compare 5 or 6 different kinds of apples and think about the pros and cons of each option before deciding which one to buy. Students are beginning a unit about food that will provide a variety of opportunities to engage in rich language. For students that are new to the country, this unit will also introduce them to the names of foods, colors, plural vs singular nouns, and much more. This week we are focusing on vegetables, and students have already had some lengthy discussions about how to define a fruit compared to a vegetable (see video link below), and then justifying whether or not a particular food is a fruit or vegetable. A few foods that led to some great debates were: bananas, pineapples, avocados, tomatoes, and peas. Students critiqued each other's arguments and even spent some time researching on the computer to help them draw conclusions about each food's designation and how to support their claim. We read a book called "Growing Vegetable Soup" to introduce this unit and posed the questions: Can you grow vegetable soup? We will continue to read more books and articles that relate to the topic of food so students can practice gathering information from what they read. We will also talk about the language used to write a recipe. If you have any soup recipes that you would like to send to school with your child, we would love to read them as a class! You can even email a picture of a recipe your family loves and I can print it for your child at school. |
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