Daily+Reflections+-+June+18

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 * Aura Reyes**, Week 2 day 5. Thank you Ms Hong for a week full of activities which allow us enrich and nurture our previous teaching knowledge, which ensure us that next time we have to develop a unit we will have more tools to support teaching and give students the opportunity to learn by practicing, playing and make learning something really fun. Have a great summer.

**Jie Ding June18:** It is such an effective strategy to train students writing. I teach 3, 5 and 7 grade students at Colorado International School, an immersion school. Writing is an important part in my teaching. I can't wait to use it in my class. I have enjoyed the stories written by the students. They are very beautiful. I enjoyed Hong Laoshi's lesson. Ms Hong's structure and effective teaching is very impressive. I had a great time learning these new activities and look forward to applying these skills in my teaching. Thank you Ms. Hong and Ms Lo for all of your hard work teaching us these useful skills. I hope see you again.

**Norman Kao** – day5, Ms. Hong showed us how to teach to write from a plain sentence to a great story. Seeing so many her students’ examples really made it easy for me. The sentence construction is a basic building block to the final production; how to chunk words and add more modifiers is absolutely valuable. During the fishbowl activity, I got to hear a lot of great ideas, which I know I will be testing and eventually used in my class for the coming year. Both Dr. Lo and Ms. Hong have offered excellent and practical ideas and activities to us. My hats off to them and I am grateful to two great teachers and our school that provides the services. By the way, the lunch was great and yummy in my tummy still. Shelley week2 Day 5 ** : Ms. Hong amazed me again! She made teaching writings so much easier and effective for teachers. I really enjoyed listening to those little cute, sweet, funny and colorful stories written by her students. The “picture talks” (can’t remember the name of it) activity is brilliant!!! It is so inspiring!!! It turned on my brain’s light bulbs instantly. It’s a whole new concept of the “picture talks” activity! I can’t wait to introduce it to all my classes. Thank you a million Ms. Hong!!!

Amy Hilbert—6/18: Thank you Mrs. Hong for a wonderful week of ideas and practice. It was very helpful to see the finished folder activities for small group stations. Together with Dr. Lo’s strategies, I feel I have an abundant amount of information to draw from and ideas to implement. From today’s lesson, I particularly enjoyed the IVF and the combination from graphic organizer to sentence writing activity and fill-in-the –blank sentence ideas ( . . . 和. . . 都. . ). I’ve used pictures in collaborative writing before, but your presentation gave me new ideas (specifically B and D from the collaborative writing power point page). I also appreciate you giving us time to work in our base and expert groups. In all honesty, these past two weeks with you and Dr. Lo have been an amazing experience! I feel very blessed to have been included in this program and am excited to try my new learning with my students.


 * Fang Liang-June 18: ** This is the last day of our training. I am impressed by the projects completed by Ms. Hong’s students. But I know Rome was not built in a day. As a teacher I should have realistic expectations to my students and give them clear instructions as well as guidance step by step. One day, we will feel rewarding when students give us their cute projects. Thanks Ms. Hong, for all the help you give us on teaching. I like your style. The strategies and activities are very practical. I will apply them to my teaching for sure.

Grace Hu: Ms. Hong shared her students' story books (written by students in Chinese), which really amazed me! I like the "看图说话" very much too, because you will see so many different way of thinking and expression. Last words: wish to see you again, Dear Ms. Hong!

Fang Yuan and Chaoqiong Wang: We hope next year we will see Ms. Hong again. Thank you! Thank you! Have a great trip.


 * Yunn Pann**: I just love the steps and structures that help the student from vocabulary they use of Compare & Contrast, to sentence patterns and Making Sentences, and to the structure for making paragraphs and Writing Paragraphs and Writing stories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course, not to forget to help the student to organize their understanding and thoughts after they hear some reading about a story or any other reading material! Thanks to your sharing of so many useful and interesting teaching approaches and insight.


 * BELINDA LIU**: I really like today's writing part. Everyone used their imagination to make paragraphs. It was so much fun. But I doubt how many years my students will take to get that level. It's good to try. Thanks very much to our instructors, Ms.Pat and Ms. Hong for giving me such good presentations. Hope to see them again.

Wanbing Zhang and Ge Ming: We've learned a lot from you! Thank you very much!!! Hope to see you and study from you again! Have a great trip!

Zhe Zhang: Those little kids’ writings are amazing! What amazed me more was the way Ms. Hong taught how to write. I also like the Picture Talk very much. It is a low prep but high impact activity. I can’t wait to use these activities in my class. I am sure my students will love them! Thank you, Ms. Hong, for sharing all these ideas with us. I learned so much from this training.

Yanni Sun: The stories the kids wrote in their second language amazed me! Behind that, we can see Mrs. Hong's smart and hard work. I think these kids were lucky to be Mrs. Hong's students! In our class, we have a great opportunity to share many of Mrs Hong's wonderful work together. We will benefit from it now on. We should applaud her! As same time, I have to say thanks for GVA give us the great opportunity to have a wonderful time with the best Chinese teachers!!! The food was wonderful! Many thanks for all!!!!

Ritu Thakkar 2nd week Day5 - Many Thanks to Ms. Lo and Ms. Hong for a wonderful concepts of teaching language. I learned lots of new strategies and new methods which help students to learn quickly. I am looking forward to apply all strategies in my classroom.