2015 JULY 19th to 25th:: Essay story starts from scholastica

(ADVENTURE) Write a travelog for a watchful musician  who guides a jungle expedition
(ADVENTURE) Describe the appearance of a shivering astronaut who collects space trash
(SCIENCE FIC) Describe a typical day of a honest world leader who befriends a race of mutant rabbits
(Fantasy) write a first person story of vain emperor who is held captive by a werewolf

[July 5 - 11th 2015] May be 50% Lang Arts by July 30th

Greetings on a Tuesday afternoon,

thanks for your effort. Varun is now doing IXL regularly. I think if one looks into the report "Performance by Skills" (Language Arts) I think Varun has completed close to 15% in Grade 7th. thanks very much.

more like by end of July 2015, if you can motivate/boost up Varun to complete 50% of Grade 7 in Language arts - it will be great.

thanks so much.
Mahesh

Mar 2nd Mon - Mar 9th 2015 varunixl & EQAO

Greetings,

(EQAO)
Akila has sent a PDF file containing EQAO
    - I was thinking if you had a chance to read those question papers
    - also can you ask Varun to do the  question papers which Akila has sent

(ENGLISH ixl as of Wednesday March 4th 2015)  Varun has completed 59 skills out of total 122 skills.

by March 8th 2015 70 skills to be MASTERED
by March 15th 2015 80 skills to be MASTERED
by March 22nd 2015 100 skills to be MASTERED
by March 29th 2015 110 skills to be MASTERED
by April 5th 2015 122 skills to be MASTERED

REQUEST TO YOU
1. henceforth please call from Wednesday morning itself. for few minutes, ask him how many skills he wants to complete. since for each week, we have kept about 10 skills to be MASTERED
2. (first call) You may want to call as early as possible (as per your convenience), anyway Varun is watching videos till indian time 6:00 AM. you can call at your convenience.
    (second call) you can initiate after 45  min the second call. you may want to talk with both Akila and Varun.
3. link to the EXCEL sheet is http://aoljgd.org/varunixl . I have already updated the goal for each week.
4. you may want to go through the EQAO material emailed by Akila

in terms of priority (1) english IXL
priority (2) english EQAO
priority (3) maths IXL


Regards
Mahesh

Feb 2-9 2014 IXL & Brave Writer

Nov 9th to Nov 15th

Greetings on a Sunday morning.

Varun is going very very slow on accepting instructions from us. hence our request to you is if you can directly create a new post addressing to Varun in http://varundh.blogspot.ca

for posting a new post in the above blog, please use your gmail account. amunianto123

Nov 2nd to Nov 8th

This is Akila here. Nice to hear from you. How are you ?
How do you find Singapore ?  We will call you on saturday.
What would be a good time ? Will Saturday or Sunday morning work for you ?
Varun is fine .I will ask him to revise the topics you have covered before the class.

September 14th to September 20th 2014

3:48 PM 18/09/2014
Greetings,
I have requested Varun, to update http://varundh.blogspot.ca.
Also I have updated the google doc (list of of links ) with the http://thehappyscientist.com/

Regards
Mahesh

August 17th to August 23rd 2014

Greetings,  

I hope you are doing good.  

It is good that you told Varun how to write a essay.  After putting down things in writings.  After writing down in the way you have asked him - He knows what is that he has learnt from his school. And he has written it down. 

(it is just my suggestion. but you can decide when to implement) there is a website I found different levels  http://www.thewritesource.com/studentmodels/ 
(Grade 6 -8) http://www.thewritesource.com/studentmodels/ws2k-racism.htm
(Grade 4-5) http://www.thewritesource.com/studentmodels/#exp

the reason why I am requesting you with the input of the website is - for a person who has studied all his years in a western country - we (all of us) suggesting him the way to write a essay - will be taken in a incorrect way. 

I was thinking the best way is to make Varun realise by him writing essay on "how to write"  
for specific topic like (Grade 4th and Grade 5th)
   "Personal Writing" or 
   "Subject Writing" 
   "Story and Play writing"
   "Report Writing" 
   "Poetry Writing"  

Regards

Mahesh

updated on Monday Aug 18th 2014 
Greetings, 
May be you can ask Varun,  to write essay about 'how to write'  the above topics.  So for each topic one essay as to how to write. So totally it will be 5 essay to cover all the 5 topics listed above.

updated on Monday Aug 18th 2014
Also something different (IXL Renaming Child 1 and 2 to your son's and daughter name) so that it will be more personal to your son and daughter. please send email of your son and daughter. so that I can rename

Aug 10th 2014 to Aug 16th 2014

Dear Teacher,

Good Morning. This is Akila here. Varun did ixl yesterday and also wrote a essay.
He is begining to show more interest. Thanks for your efforts.

From Mahesh, 

1)(giving less essay homework) Ask Varun to write a essay on 'how to write an essay' . You may want to consider - giving less the essay homework. I think Varun is struggling to write essay. 

2) (give some homework on Tamil Learning). Akila told me that Varun is very much interested in Tamil blog. I have created a http://trainingtamil01.blogspot.com . you may want ask him to  recite Tamil alphabets. I can record as mp3 and give it in the blog itself. I can then install Tamil99 keyboard software (suggested by Tamil nadu government)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_99 and http://www.google.com/inputtools/try/

3) (for English SPELLING) you may want to give more English spelling homework. created a blog http://trainingEngspelling01.blogspot.com

Aug 4th 2014 to Aug 9th 2014

Greetings on a Friday, 

thanks to your effort. we could see Varun doing the IXL on a regular basis. since it is holiday time, I think it is okay. 

if I can request  
 (1) - you may want to ask Varun to create a tamil blog - where he can type Tamil basic letters in the blog. 
 (2) - also you may want to insist that Varun updates his http://varundailyhighlights.blogspot.ca
  (3) I was thinking if you update the essay topics page,  so I will ask Varun to pickup any two topics from there.  

thanks so much for all your help. 

Regards
Mahesh

July 22nd Sunday to Aug 2nd 2014 Saturday

Greetings, 

Varun is doing good. now a days there is less struggle to make Varun do IXL. thanks for your coaching. both Akila and I could see improvements in Varun's efforts. 

Your help in enabling Varun to update the Daily highlights (http://varundailyhighlights.blogspot.ca),  English Essay (http://trainingLanguageArts.blogspot.ca) will provide a reference to Varun his improvements over a long period.

following is fyi
(for improving English Essay writing) last I bought a course "Writers Jungle" for 8 years to 18 years. here is the product review http://www.homeschoolbuyersco-op.org/brave-writer-product-testimonials/  and here is the product page for http://www.bravewriter.com/program/home-study-courses/the-writers-jungle/

I am attaching the courseware itself (PDF file in this blog.

Saturday July 19th 2014

To Varun teacher, 

Varun likes the coaching time very much.  We could see that he is now by himself takes interest in doing ixl.  Now he is doing the ixl the night before the class.  He will sure improve doing the ixl daily.  Today I will hang a paper chart on the wall. Which he can  update with a tick. Focus is to know if he remembers. 

Thanks so much for being part and helping Varun stay focused and interested in learning.