Like it or not, it's Binder time - the most wonderful time of the year! (lol), You likely have your favourite templates for the binder's ABOUT ME section, but here is a link that has a variety of templates to use for all levels if you are looking for something:
Sample Templates: Needs. Goals, Autobiography, Reflections
Also, here is yet another weekly reflection that focuses on summarizing their learning and self-improvement for CLB 5+:
Weekly Reflection/Review
If you are one of those...(who is assessing already) here is a copy of the Ongoing Assessment Chart to track all of your student's assessment levels:
Ongoing Assessment Chart
If you are forgetting all those details about our Staff meeting, Ana sent us a summary via email last week (thanks Ana!) and then this link to it on Centre point if you need a quick refresh. Just hover your mouse over blank area: (wow Ana, what a big link you have -lol)
https://thecentre.sharepoint.com/Departments/languages/LNS%20Department/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2FDepartments%2Flanguages%2FLNS%20Department%2FMeeting%20notes&FolderCTID=0x012000A01C8DFDE1C594458501E96F7327735A&View=%7BB92BC7EF%2D117E%2D4AA0%2D894A%2DCFF82A79B3A5%7D&InitialTabId=Ribbon%2ERead&VisibilityContext=WSSTabPersistence
Speaking of Fall, here is a worksheet for a Fall Group Discussion practicing the Present Perfect Tense I use every fall - Change and use as you wish:
Fall Group Discussion
The Milton Fall Fair is coming next weekend - people from all over Halton come up for it so I'll share a few great reading activities Dawn and Joy created. Dawn has two flyers - one for the Fair that you can use to create a reading activity, as well as fort The Pumpkins After Dark festival.....creeeepy good fundraiser:
Fall Fair and Pumpkins After Dark Flyers
Joy has two activities that are well worth looking into as well:
Fall Activities Websearch
Milton Fall Fair Reading Activity CLB 2/3
And Finally, a great warm-up Sentence correcting activity (focused on plural forms) from Valerie for lower levels you can use Monday morning:
Correct the Sentences Review - CLB 2/3
We are loving all the sharing (haha, we know love is a stative verb and should not be continuous but we're just talking like natives here :) So keep it coming!
The next Blog post update will also focus on Fall - so if you have any FALL activities/worksheets, send them in to us and we'll share. Remember to include instructions at the top of your worksheet :)
Happy Binder Time!
H, C, M