I received this information which you may find interesting, although, it´s not too close to go there.
I´m talking about The Benjamin Franklin Library, located in Liverpool 31, Colonia Juarez, tel. 5592-3483
Tell your parents about it and perhaps they can take you.

Te tenemos 2 sorpresas:

-         La primera es que ahora contamos con revistas para niños y las podrás consultar en la Biblioteca.

-         La segunda es que el 26 de octubre a las 15:30 te esperamos con tu disfraz para escuchar historias de misterio y

      después pedir calaverita or “trick or treat”

¡Te esperamos!

 Encuéntranos en facebook http://www.usembassy-mexico.gov/bbf/bffacebook.htm

HI KIDS,

I KNOW YOU NEED TO STUDY FOR OTHER EXAMS...THAT´S WHY I TRY TO KEEP YOUR HOMEWORK SIMPLE.  BUT PLEASE DO IT!  FOR SOME STRANGE REASON, AND BELIEVE ME, THERE ARE VARIOUS REASONS...MOST OF YOU, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, ARE NOT , I SAY N O T....DOING YOUR HOMEWORK??? WHAT´S HAPPENING??????

We haven´t been able to advance and homework adds up...tomorrow you´ll have MORE, so hurry and do it.  By the way, tomorrow I hope we can use the IPAD to play some interesting games to help the BRAIN!!!
See you tomorrow!    The link is as follows:

http://www.lumosity.com/app/v4/dashboard

http://www.lumosity.com/app/v4/personalization/report

DEAR STUDENTS,

The exam results were not as good as I would have liked, therefore, to continue practicing, today´s double
HOMEWORK   (to turn in by Wednesday)   will be:

5 sets of  Affirmative, Negative & Interrogative ( question ) for easy sentences using 3rd Person, Present
Simple ONLY.  Just like we did in class today.   NOTE:  Third graders will make 10 sets.
DO NOT use the verb TO BE because that is different.  We´ll practice that later this week.

Also write one sentence of your choice (keep it simple) for each of the 14 VOCABULARY WORDS that
we saw for October.  Many of you did the homework in class but DID NOT STUDY the words and so the results were evident on the exam.    Don´t Forget!

Lumosity Link

GUYS, I want to congratulate you on the Internet practice this week since most of you did well on the Countable & Non-Countable exercise.  However, you must DO YOUR HOMEWORK and STUDY

because I can see from the exam results that many of you had bad results on both this and the vocabulary words.

Now I want you to read the following link because we will use part of it on the IPAD this coming week.

But this article talks about SOFT DRINKS / Diet drinks.

newsletter@email.lumosity.com

newsletter@email.lumosity.com

KIDS, THIS IS A REMINDER THAT THIS WEEK WE´LL BE HAVING INTERNET EARLY IN THE MORNING.

THE URL IS THE FOLLOWING:

http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-countable-uncountable-nouns.php


1.  FIRST we will read the lesson.

2.  THEN we´ll do the  20 exercises and you can check how you did.

3.  AFTER we will see Much, many and a lot

4.  THEN   A little or a few

5.  Afterwards a few JOKES  about school

6.  And then I hope we have time for some Lyrics

                 Alphaville´s    Forever Young       or
           The Eagles´s        Hotel California      or
      Michael Jackson´s    This is it

Don´t forget tomorrow´s homework.   See you!

KIDS, as I told you in class today -- next THURSDAY 18th will be your English Test for October,
covering what we´ve practiced the latest weeks, which is:

October´s Vocabulary,  3rd Person Present Simple, Superlatives & Comparatives and Count & non-
Count which we´ll go over tomorrow and on the Internet classes next week.  Go over your notebooks,
homework and words you don´t know -- 6 days should give you plenty of time to review.

ANIMO CHICOS, con la práctica y repetición aprendemos...como les comenté en clase,  el Examen de Inglés de Octubre será el jueves 18.  Tienen unos buenos 6 días para seguir practicando y repasando sus cuadernos para aquellos que aun se les ha dificultado la gramática.

ESTIMADOS PADRES DE FAMILIA Y ALUMNOS:

Disculpen la confusión ocasionada por la no publicación a tiempo de la tarea del jueves pasado -- sin embargo en clase fui explícita.  Por consideración y excepción, en clase lo hemos estado trabajando,
la mayoría de los alumnos han cumplido bien, hay otros que no lo han logrado.

TAREA DE MAÑANA, (jueves 11 para entregar lunes 15):
1) Aprender el vocabulario de 14 palabras anotadas en su cuaderno (16 palabras para primeros años).
2) Elaborar una frase sencilla con cada palabra.

Cualquier duda que tengan, estoy a sus ordenes.

I TRUST YOU HAD A GREAT WEEKEND AND THAT YOU´RE READY TO START A NEW WEEK...

ALONG WITH THE DRILLING I HOPE WE CAN ADD SOME LISTENING AND READING PRACTICE OF A BOOK THAT WON A PULITZER PRICE BACK IN 1940.  THIS STORY REMINDS ME OF THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN MEXICO BECAUSE OF THE ECONOMY.

JUST A REMINDER THAT YOUR HOMEWORK IS DUE ON MONDAYS ( from last Thursday) AND WEDNESDAYS ( from the one I´ll give on Mondays)

Congratulations on your written paragraphs concerning your preference of  exploring the Ocean or Space...some of them were quite original and perhaps we can include them in the Blog one of these days.

Now, concerning class:  I still think you can do some drilling in UNISON about how the English language is structured, so please participate and let me hear you.  We need to cover the basic aspects before the books arrive.

****TAKE NOTE: ****
I will be giving you homework on MONDAYS to hand in on WEDNESDAYS and on Thursdays, to hand in on Mondays.  It will be written exercises on what was seen that day in class--mainly 5 positive sentences,
5 negative ones and 5 questions BEFORE USING THE BOOK.

HI GUYS,  I HOPE YOU HAD A GOOD AND RESTED WEEKEND.

THIS WEEK WE´LL BE REVIEWING THE WRITTEN EXERCISE AND ALSO DO SOME ORAL ONES IN UNISON.  I ALSO NEED TO KNOW IF YOU UNDERSTOOD THE VIDEO ABOUT THE SPACE ELEVATOR WHICH WE TRIED TO SEE LAST WEEK, AS WELL AS THE INTERACTIVE ONE ABOUT THE OCEAN WITH DR. BALLARD.

9 FIRST GRADERS PREFER EXPLORING THE OCEAN AND ONLY ONE PREFERED SPACE.

IN SECOND GRADE 7 PREFER THE OCEAN AND 6 SPACE,

WHEREAS 3 THIRD GRADERS WOULD LIKE EXPLORING THE OCEAN AND 7 PREFER SPACE.

THE HOMEWORK I ASKED FOR WAS HALF A  PAGE EXPLAINING WHY YOU PREFER TO EXPLORE WHATEVER AREA YOU CHOSE.

Hi students, I hope you liked the videos we saw on the Space Elevator and Oceanographer Robert Ballard.
I know the sound wasn´t the best so if you have a chance to watch it at home, try to do so.

Wednesday´s HOMEWORK to hand in on Thursday, the 27th  will be an explanatory paragraph on WHY you prefer Space Exploration to Ocean or vice-versa.   Some of you mentioned your reasons.   Now write
these reasons on your Notebook.  Minimum of 3 sentences.  If you can´t think of any reasons then write what you learned from these videos.

First of all let me remind you that the HOMEWORK this week is to STUDY and also UNDERLINE or
make words stand out with COLOR on your Notebooks, in order to learn faster.

Second, we will be having our 1st Internet Session and the link is the following:

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/alien-deep/?source=link_oceandl091412lalien-deep

This is related to the first Unit of the book called Explorers, which you have already read.

In case you need to see it again at home, you can look it up and show it to your family.

CONGRATULATIONS for having done your first exams of the year.  As you saw, it was easier than you thought, right?  It was just a matter of studying first and concentrating before you answer.

REMEMBER write on your notebooks what we see in class.  WRITE the new VOCABULARY WORDS in the back part of your notebooks with the equivalent in Spanish and learn them as part of your daily homework by repeating them until you learn them.  Make a sentence with each new word.

This coming week we will be going to the Internet Room for your 1st class on Monday 2AB, Tuesday 3AB and Wednesday 1AB...so come prepared.  

REMINDER

As all of you know, the first test of this year will be on Thursday of this week. (the day after tomorrow)
September 20th.

As I have mentioned to you, it will cover:  Short answers, Numbers, Tag Questions, Vocabulary seen in
class, Present Simple and Present Continuous.

Some of you do not have these written on your notebooks, so be sure you can review them with
someone that can lend you their notes.

REGLAMENTO DE INGLES INTERMEDIO

HI, STUDENTS
PLEASE COPY THE FOLLOWING, SIGN IT AND HAVE YOUR PARENTS SIGN IT TOO.

REGLAMENTO PARA INGLÉS INTERMEDIO

1.  El respeto ante compañeros y maestros es obligatorio.  Cualquiera que sea irrespetuoso tendrá un reporte.

2.  Los alumnos deberán ponerse de pie al inicio de clase y cuando entre cualquier otro profesor.

3.  La puntualidad es esencial y al pasar lista, todos deberán estar en orden y en silencio, si no responden será tomado como falta.

4. Para poder iniciar y que haya progreso, debe haber orden y limpieza en todo tiempo. No consumir alimentos en clase, de lo contrario afectará la calificación.  Nota: Habrá premiaciones al salón limpio y ordenado.

5.  El mismo criterio se aplicará por cada alumno si esta conversando en clase y distrayendo a compañeros.  Es necesario alzar la mano, solicitando permiso para hablar.

6.  El uso de teléfonos inteligentes y de Ipods solo será con fin didáctico y los audífonos se utilizarán sólo en la clase de artes visuales.  Es importante que sepan que ni el Instituto, ni el profesor, ni el personal administrativo se hace responsable por los mismos en caso de pérdida, robo o préstamo.

7.  Es necesario que todos chequen el Blog para ver las tareas, fechas, recordatorio de actividades y toda comunicación entre alumnos, padres y maestros.

8.  En la clase de Computación los alumnos seguirán las indicaciones del maestro y se presentarán con cuaderno y plumas negra y roja.

9.  Los alumnos se presentarán con uniforme completo, así como material: cuaderno forrado con papel azul, plástico y etiqueta de la escuela (se revisarán periódicamente.

10. La evaluación será continua tomando en cuenta participaciones, cuadernos, actividades, y sobre todo actitud positiva.  Para poder exentar el final se necesita 9.0 de promedio en aprovechamiento  y 9.5 en conducta.

11. Las evaluaciones serán bimestrales y será tipo Enlace.  Se considerarán Grammar (gramática), Reading (lectura), Listening (escuchar), y Oral expression (expresión oral), con su porcentaje para cada habilidad.  La calificación final incluye el porcentaje del examen.

12.  Los alumnos deberán llegar a clase desayunados.

Animar a Desayunar

KIDS,
Other Secondary Schools enter at 7am -- you have almost 45 minutes difference -- enough for you
to have breakfast! (or at least prepare something to eat on your way to school)...get up earlier...do some exercise...

Please DO eat before coming to school,  that way you are not tempted to eat your lunch in class.

(CHICOS, otras secundarias entran a las 7am--suficiente para desayunar! prepárense algo para el camino...levántense más temprano...hagan algo de ejercicio...procuren comer algo antes de llegar a la escuela para así no tener la tentación de comerse su lunch en la clase.)

Hi Kids and Parents too...   (Hola Chicos y Padres tambien)

WELCOME TO ALL WHO ARE NEW
and for those who´ve been here before,
WELCOME BACK!    (Bienvenidos de nuevo)

I trust we can make progress together and will be happy to teach you
as long as you want to learn and
I hope you do.  (Mientras quieran aprender estaré gustosa de enseñarles)

TRY TO HAVE BREAKFAST BEFORE YOU START YOUR 1st CLASS
and that will garantee you a better day...make it a HABIT and you will learn.

Let me share a thought --  "The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that 
counts, but how much it digests.    -- Albert M. Leschak

(Procuren venir desayunados ANTES de comenzar su primer clase y eso les garantizará un aprendizaje.  El pensamiento a compartir es -- "La mente es como el estómago.  No importa mucho cuanto le metes, sino cuanto digiere.)

FINAL GUIDE

Hi guys, this is the final guide, please print it and bring it to class tomorrow, we will answer it together in class, have a nice day ( it is 5 pages long)

FINAL PROJECT

Hi guys, just to remind you that thursday June 14th you have to present your work to the authorities of the school, so be ready, GOOD LUCK!

FINAL GUIDE

Hi guys, please print the final guide and take it to school for Monday June 18
regards