The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help boost feelings of calmness and well-being.
This document is an alphabet song designed to teach phonics to primary school children in Hong Kong. It assigns an animal, object, or action to each letter of the alphabet that starts with the corresponding sound. For example, "A nts on the apple A" or "B alls are bouncing B". The song is intended to help young students learn the alphabet and associate letters with their sounds in a fun, memorable way.
This document lists objects and items starting with the letter B, including letter, ball, bear, baby, bird, bee, bag, butterfly, bicycle, binocular, building, blocks, boy, banana, bell, balloon, bread, and bus.
Este documento presenta un índice de palabras divididas por sílabas de la A a la Z, con el propósito de ayudar a niños en el aprendizaje de la lectura y escritura. Incluye las palabras agrupadas por sílabas, su significado y ejemplos de uso en oraciones cortas.
This document contains words beginning with the letter R, including types of animals (rabbit, rat, rhino, raccoon), weather phenomena (rain, rainbow), plants (rose, radish, rasberry), and objects (rattle, ring, raincoat, reindeer).
The document teaches counting to 100 by tens. It shows numbers grouped into tens from 1-10, 11-20, and so on up to 91-100. Under each group it states how many tens are in that set, such as "That is one ten!" for numbers 1-10 and "That is ten tens!" for numbers 91-100.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help boost feelings of calmness and well-being.
This document is an alphabet song designed to teach phonics to primary school children in Hong Kong. It assigns an animal, object, or action to each letter of the alphabet that starts with the corresponding sound. For example, "A nts on the apple A" or "B alls are bouncing B". The song is intended to help young students learn the alphabet and associate letters with their sounds in a fun, memorable way.
This document lists objects and items starting with the letter B, including letter, ball, bear, baby, bird, bee, bag, butterfly, bicycle, binocular, building, blocks, boy, banana, bell, balloon, bread, and bus.
Este documento presenta un índice de palabras divididas por sílabas de la A a la Z, con el propósito de ayudar a niños en el aprendizaje de la lectura y escritura. Incluye las palabras agrupadas por sílabas, su significado y ejemplos de uso en oraciones cortas.
This document contains words beginning with the letter R, including types of animals (rabbit, rat, rhino, raccoon), weather phenomena (rain, rainbow), plants (rose, radish, rasberry), and objects (rattle, ring, raincoat, reindeer).
The document teaches counting to 100 by tens. It shows numbers grouped into tens from 1-10, 11-20, and so on up to 91-100. Under each group it states how many tens are in that set, such as "That is one ten!" for numbers 1-10 and "That is ten tens!" for numbers 91-100.
This short document contains a list of random words including types of animals, body parts, and sensations. It does not seem to convey a clear topic or message in just a listing of disconnected terms.
This document lists words beginning with the letter C, including common nouns like cow, cat, car, cheese, cup, camel, clock, cake, carrot, cactus, clouds, and clown.
A slide presentation the shapes taught to Preschoolers in one district - being a language project organized by Mrs Nives Torresi on the request of the Teaching staff.
This particular slide presentation covers the shapes covered in the first week of the project.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
The document discusses bridging languages in a multilingual education program, specifically bridging from the mother tongue to Filipino and English. It explains that bridging involves using cross-linguistic strategies to leverage students' skills in their first language to facilitate literacy and learning in additional languages. The document also provides examples of how to bridge between specific languages by comparing letter sounds and vocabulary.
The Landscape of 21st Century Learning: Personalised and DifferentiatedWesley Fryer
These are my slides for my closing keynote address at the Learning@School 09 Conference in Rotorua, New Zealand, shared on February 27, 2009. Referenced links are available on http://handouts.wesfryer.com/landscape
The document provides information comparing the English and Tagalog languages. It discusses some key differences between the two languages, such as Tagalog having fewer consonant sounds than English, verbs being regular tense rather than having different forms, and sentences following a VSO rather than SVO structure. It also presents examples of errors made by a Filipino student named Rica in learning English, and provides instructional implications and strategies for addressing challenges like past tense formation and differences in word stress between the two languages.
The document is a short story about different important jobs followed by comprehension questions. It states that doctors, police officers, firefighters, teachers, scientists, bus drivers, and cashiers are all important because they keep people healthy, safe, help people, help people learn, learn new things to help people, get people places safely, and let people buy necessities. Families are also important because they take care of people. The questions ask why firefighters are important, why teachers are important, and who the reader thinks is the most important.
The story introduces Toot the engine. Toot pulls a long train and carries people including men, women, boys, girls. Toot also carries bags, tins, sacks, sand, rocks, and boxes. Toot goes up hills, down hills, and listens for the whistle before going off. Toot's wheels go round and round on the tracks.
Tom has a green parrot named Polly. Polly is sitting in a tree and does not come when Tom calls her. Tom gets a mango from his mother and uses it to call Polly. When Polly sees the mango, she flies down to Tom. Both Tom and Polly are happy.
Tim is thin and visits his two friends Beth and Thelma. Beth was crying because she lost her house key and couldn't get inside. Tim comforted Beth while they waited for Thelma. Thelma arrived and had a spare key, allowing Beth to enter her home. The three friends then went inside for tea.
The kids were outside playing catch when they heard thunder rumbling in the sky. They decided to go inside to play it safe rather than stay outside in the storm where it wasn't safe or risk getting wet. Inside, they played a board game and enjoyed listening to the thunder while playing. After the storm passed, the kids went back outside and saw a rainbow.
Gail the snail felt plain so she decided to paint her shell. She got paint and started painting her shell but then it started to rain. The rain washed the paint off so Gail's shell was plain again.
The short story is about a girl named Emma who received a bright pink and shiny new bicycle as a gift from her uncle. Her uncle hid the bicycle behind a bush to surprise Emma. When Emma looked behind the bush and saw the bicycle, she jumped for joy because it was just what she wanted. She gave her uncle a big hug. Emma loves her new bicycle and she loves her uncle.
This short document contains a list of random words including types of animals, body parts, and sensations. It does not seem to convey a clear topic or message in just a listing of disconnected terms.
This document lists words beginning with the letter C, including common nouns like cow, cat, car, cheese, cup, camel, clock, cake, carrot, cactus, clouds, and clown.
A slide presentation the shapes taught to Preschoolers in one district - being a language project organized by Mrs Nives Torresi on the request of the Teaching staff.
This particular slide presentation covers the shapes covered in the first week of the project.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
The document discusses bridging languages in a multilingual education program, specifically bridging from the mother tongue to Filipino and English. It explains that bridging involves using cross-linguistic strategies to leverage students' skills in their first language to facilitate literacy and learning in additional languages. The document also provides examples of how to bridge between specific languages by comparing letter sounds and vocabulary.
The Landscape of 21st Century Learning: Personalised and DifferentiatedWesley Fryer
These are my slides for my closing keynote address at the Learning@School 09 Conference in Rotorua, New Zealand, shared on February 27, 2009. Referenced links are available on http://handouts.wesfryer.com/landscape
The document provides information comparing the English and Tagalog languages. It discusses some key differences between the two languages, such as Tagalog having fewer consonant sounds than English, verbs being regular tense rather than having different forms, and sentences following a VSO rather than SVO structure. It also presents examples of errors made by a Filipino student named Rica in learning English, and provides instructional implications and strategies for addressing challenges like past tense formation and differences in word stress between the two languages.
The document is a short story about different important jobs followed by comprehension questions. It states that doctors, police officers, firefighters, teachers, scientists, bus drivers, and cashiers are all important because they keep people healthy, safe, help people, help people learn, learn new things to help people, get people places safely, and let people buy necessities. Families are also important because they take care of people. The questions ask why firefighters are important, why teachers are important, and who the reader thinks is the most important.
The story introduces Toot the engine. Toot pulls a long train and carries people including men, women, boys, girls. Toot also carries bags, tins, sacks, sand, rocks, and boxes. Toot goes up hills, down hills, and listens for the whistle before going off. Toot's wheels go round and round on the tracks.
Tom has a green parrot named Polly. Polly is sitting in a tree and does not come when Tom calls her. Tom gets a mango from his mother and uses it to call Polly. When Polly sees the mango, she flies down to Tom. Both Tom and Polly are happy.
Tim is thin and visits his two friends Beth and Thelma. Beth was crying because she lost her house key and couldn't get inside. Tim comforted Beth while they waited for Thelma. Thelma arrived and had a spare key, allowing Beth to enter her home. The three friends then went inside for tea.
The kids were outside playing catch when they heard thunder rumbling in the sky. They decided to go inside to play it safe rather than stay outside in the storm where it wasn't safe or risk getting wet. Inside, they played a board game and enjoyed listening to the thunder while playing. After the storm passed, the kids went back outside and saw a rainbow.
Gail the snail felt plain so she decided to paint her shell. She got paint and started painting her shell but then it started to rain. The rain washed the paint off so Gail's shell was plain again.
The short story is about a girl named Emma who received a bright pink and shiny new bicycle as a gift from her uncle. Her uncle hid the bicycle behind a bush to surprise Emma. When Emma looked behind the bush and saw the bicycle, she jumped for joy because it was just what she wanted. She gave her uncle a big hug. Emma loves her new bicycle and she loves her uncle.
A greedy dog saw a big bone in a butcher's shop window. It went into the shop and stole the bone, prompting the butcher to chase it. The dog escaped and ran far away. While crossing a bridge, the dog saw another dog in the river below with an even bigger bone. When the greedy dog tried to take that bone, it dropped its own bone into the river, leaving it sad without a bone.
Sheila lives near a river and often goes there with her father, who is a fisherman. One day while sitting in her father's boat, Sheila says she wishes she had some shoes. Later when her father is leaving to go fishing, Sheila shouts that she wants him to bring back a shell, but he shouts back "no shells, just fish!". That evening, Sheila's father returns home and gives Sheila a box, which contains a pair of shiny black shoes that make her happy.
Roy has many toys but does not let his friends play with them. When some boys come over to play, Roy only wants to play hide and seek while the boys ask to play with his toys like his drum, cars, and truck. Roy refuses and cries when he cannot find the boys during hide and seek. Later, Roy learns to share his toys with his friends and they come over every day to play, making Roy happy.
Rima and Diya are in the garden on a hot, sunny day. They hear a croaking sound and look under trees, pots, bushes, and a car to find the source of the noise. Rima eventually finds a frog under a leaf in the pond, but there is no water in the pond. She calls for her dad, who comes and looks in the pond with Rima and Diya. Dad helps fill the pond with water from a bucket so the frog is no longer stranded.
The passage describes how a bear named prepares for winter. First, the bear eats a lot to gain weight. Then, he finds a den and fills it with leaves to keep warm. By eating much and having a cozy den, the bear is ready for the cold winter season. The questions ask about the character, what the bear needs to do, and how the bear gets ready for winter.
The passage introduces three fish: Finny, who has beautiful long fins to help her swim fast; Tayla, whose big tail moves from side to side to help her go different directions; and Igor, who has great big eyes to help him see where he's going and see big scary fish. It includes questions about which fish has each feature and asks which fish the reader would most want as a pet and why.
Greg helps his mom make chocolate chip cookies, which are his favorite. He adds chocolate chips to the batter, stirs them in, and forms the batter into balls that he places on a baking sheet. While the cookies bake, Greg licks the leftover batter from the mixing bowl.
The story is about a kitten who has to choose between playing with her new toy or chasing a mouse she sees. If she chases the mouse, her brother will take her toy. But if she plays with the toy, the mouse will get away. She decides to chase the mouse instead of playing with the toy, since she doesn't see mice often and finds chasing them more fun, even though she doesn't catch it. She is happy with her choice.
The story is about a visit to Jen's small shop by Jack. Jen has a variety of items for sale including pens, nibs, books, bags, clocks, clips and buttons. When Jack asks if she has certain items, Jen always replies that she does and describes what kinds she has. At the end, when Jack says he wants nothing and was just checking, Jen chases him away from the shop.
Brad loves playing video games, especially Disney games. One day after school, Brad's mom asked if he had homework, which he did, but he considered lying so he could play his games. However, he decided to tell the truth because he knew if he lied, he would not be allowed to play video games for a week. Brad finished his homework and had time to play two games before dinner.
The document is a short passage about apples that is followed by questions. It discusses that apples can be red, yellow, or green; each color tastes different. Apples finish growing in the fall and can be picked from trees by twisting and pulling them off. The passage notes there are five parts to an apple: the skin, flesh, seeds, stem, and sometimes leaves. The subsequent questions ask when apples finish growing, what the passage is about, how many parts an apple has, and what is wondered about apples after reading.
The document is a short story about bears that describes the different types of bears, where they live, their physical characteristics, and their hibernation behaviors. It then provides questions about the details in the story.
Anna and her family enjoy doing puzzles of different sizes. Anna is best at small puzzles with about 50 pieces that she tries to complete one per day. Anna and her brother work on medium puzzles together. When the whole family does a puzzle, they do very large ones with 500 pieces or more that can take them a week to finish. They glue their favorite completed puzzles together and frame them to display on the wall.