Online Class Notes (Nick) [W]

Homework

Why do you like studying math? What about math did you like studying?

Vocabulary

Say / pronounce – to read a word out loud
e.g. How do you pronounce cat? k + at

Although – something should cause something else, but it doesn’t
e.g. Although we planned to go to the park, it began to rain.

Vowel – a, e, i, o, u (sometimes y)

Syllable – at least one vowel, sometimes with consonants
e.g. “a”
e.g. “cat”

Addition and Subtraction :Ā  +/-
Plus and Minus – how you read an equation with these symbols
e.g. 5 + 4 = 9; five plus 4 equals nine (this equation is doing addition)
e.g. 7 – 2 = 5; seven minus 2 is equal to five (this equation is doing subtraction)
Division and Multiplication
Multiply and Divide
e.g. 5 x 6 = 30; five times 6 is thirty (this equation is doing multiplication)
e.g. 30 / 6 = 5; 30 divided by six is equal to five (this equation is doing division)

Grammar

Let him to say it correctly – help him to say it correctly

His performance is not very wellgood (because it describes a noun: performance)

I’m very like math – I really like math

He cannot catch up his classmates – catch up with

Writing exercise

Recently I helped my son to review his English homework. Because they started to study phonics ā€˜abā€™ļ¼Œā€˜adā€™ with consonants and my son could not read some words very well in latest quiz. I wrote down some consonants and some combined letters like ā€˜abā€™. I asked my son to practice reading these words. But I found if a word he does not know then he cannot read it. For example, he knows the word ā€˜cabā€™ then he can read ā€™c-abā€™ cab out but if he doesnā€™t know ā€˜tabā€™ he would read as tag(because he knows tag). The first time I thought my son did not pay attention to the homework because I donā€™t know why he knows the pronunciation of both T and ab but he cannot read tab out. My husband and I blamed his study attitude and ordered him to stop play his toy cars.

Last Saturday, I met with his English teacher and told my sonā€™s problem to her. The teacher told me this situation is very common and a lot of children know all lettersā€™ pronunciation but they cannot read the word out. Then the teacher taught me a method that read t and ab in succession from slow to fast then kid will read tab out naturally.

This Monday I tried this method and my son read all words out correctly. I recognized that the adults always use their thought to judge childrenā€™s behavior right or not and some problems are caused by adultsā€™ bad method sometimes.


Recently I helped my son to review his English homework. Because Although they started to study phonics ā€˜abā€™ļ¼Œā€˜adā€™ with consonants and my son could not read some words very well in the latest quiz. I wrote down some consonants and some combined letters like ā€˜abā€™. I asked my son to practice reading these words. But I found if a word he does not knowĀ a word then he cannot read it / say it. For example, he knows the word ā€˜cabā€™ so then he canĀ say ā€™c-abā€™ cab. But, if he doesnā€™t know ā€˜tabā€™ he would readĀ it as tag (because he knows tag). The first time I thought my son did not pay attention to the homework because I donā€™t know why he knows the pronunciation of both T and ab but he cannot readĀ pronounce tab out. My husband and I blamed his study attitude and ordered him to stop playing with his toy cars.

Last Saturday, I met with his English teacher and toldĀ her about my sonā€™s problem to her. The teacher told me this situation is very common and though a lot of children know all the lettersā€™ pronunciation, but they cannot readĀ say the word out. Then the teacher taught me a method thatĀ to read t and ab in succession from slow to fastĀ and then the kid willĀ be able to read “tab” out naturally.

This Monday, I tried this method and my son read allĀ the words out correctly. I recognized that the adults always use their thoughtĀ assumptions to judgeĀ whether childrenā€™s behaviorĀ is right or not andĀ that some problems are caused by adultsā€™ bad method sometimes.

Pronunciation

L – put your tongue up above your teeth and use your voice
e.g. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/vowel

Succession – Suk – seh – shun