Rubrika: Polar Bears

• • Pages 36 (ONLY ACTIVITY 1) and 37 in the Workbook are assigned as Homework for 09.12
    
    Intro: We began class with a game of Hotseat to practice our words.
    
    Notebooks: In our notebooks we looked at different survival scenarios and wrote in our notebooks a plan to survive in those situations.
    I am going to…
    I am going to…
    I am going to…
    
    Unit 3 Vocab Words: We practiced our new Unit 3 Vocabulary: spotlight, backing singers, electric guitar, dancer, fans, bass guitar, stage, drum kit, bodyguards
    
    Music Genres: We dicussed and listened to music from four important genres: Orchestral, Jazz, Rock, and Hip Hop.
    
    Student’s Book: We worked through Page 42 in the Students Book

• Pages 36 (ONLY ACTIVITY 1) and 37 in the Workbook are assigned as Homework for 09.12
  
  Intro: We began class with a game of Scattegories to warm up our brain.
  
  Notebooks: In our notebooks we imagined we were going to have a perfect day where we could do whatever we want: we wrote down four sentences about our plan for this day.
  At quarter past nine, I am going to…
  At half past three, I am going to…
  At ten to seven I am going to…
  At quarter to ten I am going to…
  
  Unit 3 Vocab Words: We practiced our new Unit 3 Vocabulary: spotlight, backing singers, electric guitar, dancer, fans, bass guitar, stage, drum kit, bodyguards
  
  Going to practice: We played a bamboozle game to practice our new grammar, students looked at pictures and say what they thought was going to happen.
  
  Student’s Book: We worked through Page 40 in the Students Book

• • Pages 34 and 35 in the Workbook are assigned as Homework for 02.12
    
    Intro: We began class with a game of Timebomb to Practice Vocabulary
    
    Notebooks: In our notebooks we wrote down our future plans using going to
    What are you going to do…
    this afternoon?
    this weekend?
    next summer?
    when you grow up?
    
    Unit 3 Vocab Words: We practiced our new Unit 3 Vocabulary: spotlight, backing singers, electric guitar, dancer, fans, bass guitar, stage, drum kit, bodyguards
    
    New Grammar: We introduce our second grammar of the unit; using past and to to talk about the time.
    Example: It’s quarter past three. It’s twenty to eleven.
    
    Survival Plan Activity: Students chose four items to bring with them from a sunken ship and had to make a plan using our grammar for how to survive a desert island.
    
    Student’s Book: We worked through Page 36 and 37 in the Students Book

Unit 2 Test: We reviewed for and wrote our Unit 2 Test.

Students Absent on Wedensday will write the test on Monday, November 25th.

PAGES 25 of the Workbook is assigned as Homework for 18.11

Intro: We began class by finishing and presenting our Ecosystem Projects.
Ecosystem Project: Students chose an ecosystem (Desert, Rainforest, Tundra, and Savanna) and researched the following questions about them:

Where are they?
What kind of plants are there?
What kinds of animals are there?
What is the climate (weather)?
2 Fun Facts

Hotseat: We played a game of hotseat to practice our Unit 2 Vocabulary.

New Grammar: We introduced our second grammar point of the unit: using have to and don’t have to to speak about rules and obligations.
Example:
We have to bring boots to the jungle.
She has to clean her room before dinner.
I don’t have to leave early today.

Notebooks: In our notebooks we wrote rules that our classmates would have to follow if certain numbers on a dice were rolled:
1: You have to sing the ABCs.

2: You have to compliment your partner.

3: You have to dance for 10 seconds.

4: You have to stand on one leg for 10 seconds

5: You have to do 5 push ups.

6: You have to spell a Vocab Word

Unit 2 Vocab Words: We practiced our new Unit 2 Vocabulary: beak, toucan, jaguar, branch, creeper, anteater, sloth, anaconda, beetle, pool

Student’s Book: We worked through Page 25 in our Student’s Books.

• PAGES 22 and 23 of the Workbook are assigned as HW for 11.11
  
  Intro: We began class with a game of Hotseat to practice our new vocabulary.
  
  Notebooks: We imagined we were travelling in a plane that crashed in the jungle. We were only able to take three things from the crashed plane to survive in the jungle. Students wrote their three items and a reason for each.
  
  Unit 2 Vocab Words: We practiced our new Unit 2 Vocabulary: beak, toucan, jaguar, branch, creeper, anteater, sloth, anaconda, beetle, pool
  
  Big Numbers: We introduced our first Unit 2 grammar point; big numbers and how to say them.
  
  1,000= one thousand
  10,000= ten thousand
  100,000= one hundred thousand
  1,000,000= one millions
  
  Big Number Game Show: We played a trivia game to practice big numbers. Students answered questions on a small whiteboard; guessing things like the population of Prague, how many hairs are on a human head, and how deep is the ocean.
  
  Student’s Book: We worked through Page 22 and 23 in our Student’s Books.
  
  Halloween Party: We did some Halloween related activities and ate some candy.

• • PAGES 22 and 23 of the Workbook are assigned as HW for 11.11
    
    Intro: We began class with a game of Scattegories to warm up.
    
    Notebooks: Students wrote and discussed wether they would have rather vist the African Savanna OR the Amazon Rainforest and 3 reasons why.
    
    New Unit: Introduced the new unit with a video and presentation on Rainforests.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vijLre760w
    
    New Unit 2 Vocab Words: We introduced our new Unit 2 Vocabulary: beak, toucan, jaguar, branch, creeper, anteater, sloth, anaconda, beetle, pool
    
    Halloween Party: We did some Halloween related activities and ate some candy.