“HES” Helen’s English System PROGRESS REPORT “HES” Helen’s English System

Report on Helen’s English System in the PRE-SCHOOL and KINDERGARTEN Introduction We are now submitting to you a report on the progress that we have made on the implementation of “HES” in the pre-school and kindergarten. In the following sections of this progress report, you will be informed of the work that we have already accomplished, the work that we are now involved in, the work left to do, and finally an overall appraisal of how the “HES” implementation is going.

Summary of “HES” accomplishments During this period we have aimed towards integrating the effective and efficient in hand materials, with the inclusion of our Multi-skill book(which includes Math, shapes, colors, Social Skills,etc..)lessons, hands on activities, arts and crafts, songs, games, PE, field trips in the target language, different Yoga techniques and a variety of supplements such as puppets, salt/rice tray, play dough and live music making language learning a natural and instinctive process as we had intended to. As of this time, we have completed almost all the provided material and we are putting our ongoing effort in elaborating the scope of all skill capabilities in our students, just as we had mentioned in our deductive approach goal in this system which has now reached its’ peak. Here is a break down of the work we have done :

Developing Conversational Skills In the development of the conversational skills, students have been introduced to all nine themes of the Pockets Books and related Tiny Talk units which include: 1.TheClassroom2.MyBody3.Toys4.Family5.Pets6.Clothes7.Party Food8.Home9.Neighborhood Students are now involved in conversational revising activities such as circle time with flashcards,teacher based puppet shows and student based role plays using class posters for increasing student’s enthusiasm in all learned conversations. During the following months we will elaborate the theme vocabulary by presenting more advanced theme related vocabulary through the next level of the Pockets books,according to students capabilities.

Multi-Skill Essentials The fundamental concepts in Math, Science, Social Skills,Reading, Rhyming word recognition,etc… have been presented through our Multi-skill books. The details of the covered concepts are as follows: Colors and Shapes: All related pages have been covered till now whereas we are now reviewing all related pages Math:Numbers 1-12 have been taught. We will continue teaching numbers and will later get to concepts of addition and subtraction in classes that have the capability to move on to the next level. Science:The following topics have been presented:Five senses,Seasons,Weekdays,Plants,Birds and reptiles,Mammals,Planet Earth,Recycling,Living/non living things and we will elaborate on each topic in different levels according to students capabilities.In addition to teaching new topics along with related science experiments. Social Skills:All Pages have been covered with the intention of familiarizing students with essential social skills helping each and every one of them to thoroughly learn the basic skills needed in different settings. Rhyming Words:Lessons 1-20 have been completed(out of 40) and we will continue presenting new rhyming groups,whereas in later stages students will gain thorough knowledge of rhymes to start rhymes on their own. Sight Words:”I,MY,You,And” have been taught. We will continue the sight words section in the order it appears in the book for students to gain complete awareness in this regard for future text readings.

Literacy Program All units of “Phonics for kids” and “Jolly Phonics”have been introduced to the students whereas we are eventually entering the next step towards the literacy program. As students gain more phonemic awareness through practice, they will accomplish awareness in the following order:a)reading sounds of the letters b)Reading CVC words c)Reading sight words d)Reading short sentences E)reading stories in the” Learn to Read A “ book. We implemented all related flashcards in accordance to the sounds that had been taught throughout this period and will continue furthermore. We are now integrating the newspaper practice in all classes to help students reach a better understanding of phonemes.We are planning individual story reading time for students that have a potential in this matter.

Motor Skills& Writing We have completed the Motor Skill activity pages to perform more efficiently on our writing practice pages in all related books. Students mastery of fine-motor skills have allowed them to gain greater independence in all writing material. As for now all students can trace all related letters and at this point they are capable of tracing their names. We have used the Salt/rice tray activity for better efficiency in this matter.

Games-Yoga Techniques-Arts&Crafts- Hands on Activities Each week students have learned new games, new yoga poses and have made arts and crafts to strengthen and help stabilize the newly learned concepts in all subjects. We have also celebrated the American holidayssuch as Halloween and Thanksgiving to familiarize students with target language holidays and occasions. We have Christmas coming up, and other holidays in the future months. Finally, every other week students are involved in activities such as making different recipes such as salads,desserts,foods,etc..with the objective of teaching the children different action words and new related vocabulary along with lots of fun while doing so. We will continue all the aforementioned activities in the future as well.

ESL Classes The ESL section of our system has been technically very complete with the supervision of an experienced teacher in this matter, reaching all students in need of extra supervision and assistance. Through ESL classes the students in need of extra practice in all skills especially reading have been pulled out of the mainstream class and have been assisted in the required field. As for now the ESL students have a record with their teacher and will continue ESL classes until their teacher determines just when they need to return to their mainstream classes for good.

Overall Appraisal In all the aforementioned skills our English site is very complete and gives all parents a good idea of what has been implemented through our weekly lesson plans in detail. The student accomplishments can be observed by parents through their weekly evaluation sheets that have been sent home each week. In addition to the weekly evaluations students have had individual interviews and class observations in this regard for us to get results of the system integration in detail. According to the “HES” grading system an above average feedback has been shown in all classes. The overall system implementation has come along very well till now. We hope to see an ongoing progress in all skills as expected in the following months to come. Thank you all for your sincere cooperation.