Butterflies

Homework (HW):  AB 65/1, 66/4
Portfolio: Write as many words about the natural world as you can in 2 minutes.
Pupil’s Book: Unit 7 „Natural world“ (pages 64-66)
Vocabulary and Grammar: Giving advice: should/shouldn’t
Endangered species, extinct, insect, protect, striped, stripes, spots, spotted, beetle, wing, butterfly, in danger
Activity Book: 64; 66/1, 2, 3
Unit Song: PB 65/4

Game: Give advice

Happy Easter! Enjoy the holiday 🙂
Homework (HW):   None

Vocabulary: lamb, chick, tulip, daffodil, nest, bonnet, basket

Easter activities:

-Word search, jumble, riddle; quiz game: https://www.baamboozle.com/game/973326
-„Easter Hunt“ and „Chocolate Bunny“ stories. Students created their own silly stories by first writing words based on prompts (parts of speech, e.g., adjective, noun, verb) without looking at the story and then filling in the story’s gaps. „Easter Hunt“ is below!

Homework (HW):  AB 63/5, 6
Portfolio: Sentence Scrambles
Pupil’s Book: Units 5 and 6 Review (pages 62-63)
Special Story: „Jack and the Beanstalk“ – Students completed vocabulary and comprehension exercises including „What other magic things do you think the giant had in his castle? What are they made of? Write and draw.“
Vocabulary and Grammar: All from Units 5, 6
From „Jack and the Beanstalk“: hen, giant, harp, axe, beanstalk; Past simple regular and irregular verbs
Activity Book: 62, 63/4

Homework (HW):  AB 55 (whole page)
Pupil’s Book: Unit 6 „Senses“ (pages 60-61)
Vocabulary and Grammar: sound waves, vibrations; all vocabulary and grammar from Unit 6
Activity Book: 61
Board game: PB 63
Can You Guess the Sound? The Game 8: „It sounds like…“
Kid’s Box 5 Unit 6 Review

Homework (HW):  AB 57 (whole page)
Pupil’s Book: Unit 6 „Senses“ (pages 57-59)
Vocabulary and Grammar:
Senses: hearing, sight, smell, taste, touch
Describing sensations: What does it look/feel/taste/smell/sound like? It looks/feels/tastes/smells/sounds like…
Cooking: flour, salt, pepper, knife, fork, spoon, plate, salami, sausage, onion, delicious, yeast, mix, dough, base, olives, oven, ingredient, topping
Sentence Stress: We talked about how stressing particular words changes the meaning of a sentence. (THIS is my toy spider. This is MY toy spider. This is my TOY spider. This is my toy SPIDER.)
Role Play: Ordering a pizza
Activity Book: 58/1, 2
Unit Song: PB 57
Diggory Bones Story: PB 59
Chain game: On our pizza, there’s…. (say a topping, and the next student must say the first student’s topping, and add theirs on).

Brain Break: Would You Rather? Workout! (Pizza Edition) Family Fun Fitness – Brain Break – This or That

Make your own Rorschach Test: Students made their own tests with paint and paper. We all shared our opinions about what it looked like.

Homework (HW):  AB 56 (whole page). In Activity 2, the last letter of one word is the first letter of the next word. chips, salt, taste…
Pupil’s Book: Unit 6 „Senses“ (pages 54-56)
Vocabulary and Grammar:
Senses: hearing, sight, smell, taste, touch
Describing sensations: What does it look/feel/taste/smell/sound like? It looks/feels/tastes/smells/sounds like…
Cooking: flour, salt, pepper, knife, fork, spoon, plate, salami, sausage, onion, delicious, yeast, mix, dough, base, olives, oven, ingredient, topping
Activity Book: 54
Unit Song: PB 57
Game: What does it sound like? (PB 55/3) On slips of paper, students wrote 3 things that make different sounds. E.g. clock. (tick tock tick tock). We took turns drawing a slip, making the sound, and guessing.

Today we had the Units 3-5 Test. Good job, everyone! There is no homework for next week. 🙂

After the test, we played a fun and interactive „Beat the Maze“ game focused on time vocabulary. Students had to answer multiple-choice and open-ended questions about months, seasons, dates, daily routine, etc., to successfully exit the maze.

We also practiced some English tongue twisters:

• Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
• A big black bug bit a big black bear.
• Red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather.
• Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
• A proper copper coffee pot.
• Fresh fried fish.
• Kitty caught the kitten in the kitchen.

Units 3-5 Test on 25.2.
Homework (HW):  Unit 4 Reinforcement Worksheet
Pupil’s Book: Unit 5 (pages 52-53); Review Units 3-5
Today we reviewed Units 3, 4, and 5. Students also imagined they were sculptors and designed their own sculptures from recycled materials.
Vocabulary and Grammar: Units 3-5
Unit 5: Materials: brick, sugar, rubber, fur, wool, paper, card, plastic, wood, stone, grass, leather, gold, silver, glass metal; made of, comes from
Unit 4: Disaster: storm, island, beach, catch fire, lightning, tsunami, hurricane, iceberg
Unit 3: Directions: right, left, straight on, (at/on the) corner, past, across, along; to get lost, turn; Places in a city: police station, theatre, bridge, street, post office, taxi, hotel, airport, restaurant, museum, castle, prison, bank, stadium, gym
Activity Book: 53
Units 3 and 5 Songs
Games: Materials (Unit 5) Students said a sentence using the material and either „comes from“ or „is/are made of“, Units 3 and 4 Review

Homework (HW):  AB 50/4, 51/Do you remember?
Pupil’s Book: Unit 5 „Material things“, pages 49-51
Vocabulary: Materials: brick, sugar, rubber, fur, wool, paper, card, plastic, wood, stone, grass, leather, gold, silver, glass metal
Pronunciation: connected speech. The final consonant sound and an initial vowel sound of two words link together (e.g. look at, come on, made of).
Grammar: „comes from“ e.g. Wool comes from sheep. Paper comes from trees.
„made of“ e.g. The eggs are made of white chocolate. The spider isn’t made of fur. What are they made of?
Activity Book: 49; 50/1, 2, 3; 51/1, 2
Unit Song: PB 49
Diggory Bones Story: PB 51
Games: The Yes/No Game (PB 50/4). One person thought of an object (from the pictures in the activity or something in the classroom) and the rest of the class asked questions that could be answered with „yes“ or „no.“ For example, „Is it smaller than a book?“ „Is it made of metal?“ „Do children play with it?“

• Unscramble the sentences: https://wordwall.net/resource/28393726/kb-5-made-of-used-for

Homework (HW):  AB 47 (whole page)
Pupil’s Book: Unit 5 „Material things“, pages 46-48
Vocabulary: Materials: brick, sugar, rubber, fur, wool, paper, card, plastic, wood, stone, grass, leather, gold, silver, glass, metal
Grammar: „made of“ e.g. The eggs are made of white chocolate. The spider isn’t made of fur. What are they made of?
Activity Book: 46, 48
Unit Song: PB 49
Games:

-„What’s it made of?“ Each student got a “secret” material. They wrote 5 things in the room that are made of it. The others must guess the material.
-Sorting materials into two categories: natural and man-made.
–https://www.baamboozle.com/game/3029371

Today we had a special story lesson on The Smeds and the Smoos by Julia Donaldson. This book is about two groups of aliens, the red Smeds and the blue Smoos. It explores themes of prejudice, breaking down barriers, appreciating differences, and friendship.

Students predicted what would happen, listened to the story, and retold it in their own words. We also discussed these questions: Which part do you like? Is it okay to say “we don’t talk to them”? Who is right: the grandparents or the children? What happens when the grandparents visit different planets? What can we learn from this story? In what ways can people be different than us?

Finally, students wrote and drew pictures of their favourite part.

Vocabulary: different, same, planet, friendly, strict, accept, nasty

Homework (HW):  AB 45/4, 45/5
Pupil’s Book: Unit 4 „Disaster!“, pages 42-43; Units 3 and 4 Review, pages 44-45
Today we learned about volcanoes (active, dormant, extinct) and reviewed Units 3 and 4.
Activity Book: 43, 44
Games: Kid’s Box Review Units 3-4
Beach Ball Toss (Ask and answer to practice the Past Continuous): What were you doing yesterday at 6:00 pm? I was… (eating dinner, doing my homework, going to my mom’s house)

Brain Break: Would You Rather? Fitness (Dessert Edition) | This or That | Brain Break | PE | GoNoodle

Homework (HW):  AB 40/3, 41/2, 41/Do you Remember?
Pupil’s Book: Unit 4 „Disaster!“, pages 39-41
Vocabulary: Disaster, storm, island, beach, catch fire, lightning, tsunami, hurricane;
ordinals (e.g. 20th: twentieth, 25th: twenty-fifth); months of the year; recognizing long vowel sounds A E I O U
Grammar: Past continuous and Past simple
Activity Book: 40/1, 40/2, 41/1
Diggory Bones Unit 4 Story (PB 41)
Game: Charades with pictures and phrases on PB 37/3. Students chose and acted out a scenario (i.e. I was making a sandwich when I cut myself.) The others guessed the scenario with the correct grammar.

Wordwall Activities: https://wordwall.net/resource/25707195/kb-5/kb-5-unit-3-direction

https://wordwall.net/resource/26318748/kb-5/natural-disaster-vocab-scrambled-words-kb-5-unit-4

Merry Christmas!

Today we celebrated the season by creating stories, having a „snowball“ fight (the students had to answer the Christmas-related questions that were on every snowball), watching the original 1966 „How the Grinch Stole Christmas“, and playing a game with questions based on the movie.

Enjoy the holidays and see you in January!

Homework (HW):  AB 37/1, 37/2
Pupil’s Book: Unit 4 „Disaster!“, pages 36-38
Vocabulary: Disaster, storm, island, beach, catch fire, lightning, tsunami, hurricane;
ordinals (e.g. 20th: twentieth, 25th: twenty-fifth)
Grammar: Past continuous and Past simple (e.g. They were getting warm when the journalist arrived.)
Reading dates: e.g. 14 April 1912 (you say „The fourteenth of April, nineteen twelve“)
Activity Book: 36 (whole page), 38/1, 2

Game: Past Continuous Baamboozle

Homework (HW):  AB 32/4, AB 33/ “Do you remember?”
Pupil’s Book: Unit 3 „City life“, pages 31-33
Unit 3 Song (PB 31) and Diggory Bones episode (PB 33)
Vocabulary:
Prepositions: who, which, where
Directions: right, left, straight on, (at/on the) corner, past, across, along; to get lost, turn
Places in a city: police station, theatre, bridge, street, post office, taxi, hotel, airport, restaurant, museum, castle, prison, bank, stadium, gym
Activity Book: 31 whole page; 33/1, 33/2, 35
Quiz Game: who, which, where

Students took their tests home today
Homework (HW):  AB 29/2, 29/3; 30 (whole page)

Pupil’s Book: Unit 3 „City life“, pages 28-30

Today we practiced giving and following directions using maps. We learned the new Unit 3 Song (PB 31) and read Lenny, Stella, and Meera’s blog about London!

Activity Book: 28, 29/1

Vocabulary: Directions: right, left, straight on, (at/on the) corner, past, across, along; to get lost, turn
Places in a city: police station, theatre, bridge, street, post office, taxi, hotel, airport, restaurant, museum, castle, prison, bank, stadium, gym

Game: Hot Seat

Homework (HW): No homework today!
Portfolio: Spelling dictation. I began to spell a word, letter by letter. When students thought they knew the word, they raised their hands and guessed. Words: Prize, comedy, interesting, history
Today, students took a test that covered the material from the Starter Unit, Unit 1, and Unit 2. After the test, we practiced the past tense using a matching game, told stories with StoryCubes, and asked and answered questions with „Let’s Talk!“ dice.

Well done today!

Homework (HW):  AB 25, 27/6
Pupil’s Book: pages 26-27, Review Starter Unit, Unit 1, and Unit 2
Today we reviewed the vocabulary and grammar for next week’s test. 🙂
Activity Book: 26, 27/5

Brain Break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkjSCvw5qBg
Game: Review Units 1 and 2
Test on 19.11.: Starter Unit, Unit 1, and Unit 2.

Homework (HW):  AB 22/3, 22/4
Pupil’s Book: Unit 2, pages 21-23
Today we continued learning about jobs, practiced with „going to“ for future plans, and completed Unit 2 with the Diggory Bones Story.
Activity Book: 21 (whole page), 23 (whole page)
Diggory Bones Unit Story (PB 23)
Games:

Who am I? While one student sits in the „hot seat“ (a chair at the front of the room with their back to the board), the others choose a job without telling them. The student in the hot seat must ask yes/no questions to figure out what job they have.

„Going to“: https://www.baamboozle.com/game/538333

Homework (HW):  AB 20 (whole page)
Pupil’s Book: Unit 2, pages 18-20
Activity Book: 18, 19

Today we learned new vocabulary, sang the new unit song, and read Lenny, Meera, and Stella’s blog.
Vocabulary: Jobs- nurse, fire fighter, teacher, dentist, actor, artist, cook, doctor, football player, journalist, manager, mechanic, pilot, sports commentator, video game designer, writer
Grammar: Plans, intentions, and predictions with “going to“
For example, What are you going to do after LEAP? I’m going to go home. What are you going to be when you grow up? I’m going to be a veterinarian.

We also did some Halloween activities 🎃:

All About Halloween for Kids | 31 October | History of Halloween | Halloween Traditions | Twinkl USA

Funny Fill-In: Happy Haunting | National Geographic Kids 

Halloween Scramble Spelling | Baamboozle  

Homework (HW):  AB 16/2 write about a documentary you’ve watched (or imagine a documentary you’d like to watch)
Pupil’s Book: Unit 1, pages 16-17; Units 0-1 Review
Today we learned about how documentaries are made!
Activity Book: 16/1; 17
Vocabulary: Adjectives: amazing, bad, boring, exciting, funny, good, interesting;
Drone, underwater camera, computer-generated images (CGI), stream (e.g. a series)
Games: https://www.baamboozle.com/game/2534309; https://www.baamboozle.com/game/200278

Homework (HW):  Activity Book 14/3, 15/1, 15/Do you remember?
Pupil’s Book: Unit 1, pages 13-15
Activity Book: 13/1; 14/1,2
Vocabulary: Adjectives: amazing, bad, boring, exciting, funny, good, interesting
Grammar: Past Simple
Games: Frogs on a log with „ch“ and „sh“ sounds. Students listened to words and moved to the corresponding side of the room; Circle hand slap „I know 5 words about television“: Students practiced vocabulary and spelling with this game.
StoryCubes: We created stories with StoryCubes using the unit vocabulary and grammar.
Diggory Bones Unit 1 Story, Pupil’s Book page 15: Watch again using your CambridgeOne login 🙂

Homework (HW):  Activity Book page 11 (whole page)
Portfolio: What’s your favorite TV program or series to watch? What kind of program is it? (comedy, cartoon, quiz show, sport, action, science fiction, documentary)
Pupil’s Book: Unit 1, pages 10-12
Activity Book: pages 10 and 12
Vocabulary: Time: half, o’clock, past, quarter, to; TV programmes: action film, cartoon, comedy, documentary, news, quiz show, rock music video, sport, weather; TV: channel, episode, series, stream
Games: https://www.baamboozle.com/game/69918; https://wordwall.net/resource/22445710/kb-5-unit-1-tv

Homework (HW):  AB 7/3, 9/2
Pupil’s Book: Unit 0 „Welcome to our blog“, pages 7-9
Activity Book: 7/1, 8/3, 8/4, 9/1, „Do you remember?“
Vocabulary: dictionary, definition, ancient, Rosetta Stone; all vocabulary from last week

Today was our first Diggory Bones Story. We watched the video, discussed new words, and read the story as the characters.

We reviewed vocabulary in a fun way, playing „UFO“ and then creating our own stories with Story Dice and the Unit vocabulary.

Students also practiced their pronunciation of „connected words“, for example, „Did you…“ often sounds like „Didja…“ in informal conversation. 🙂

Homework (HW):  Activity Book (AB) page 6, the whole page
Today we started in our new Kid’s Box 5 books. We met Stella, Lenny, and Meera and read the first blog they wrote for their school’s competition.
Pupil’s Book (PB): Unit 0 „Welcome to our blog“, pages 4-6
Activity Book (AB): 4, 5
Vocabulary: blog, competition, prize, wi-fi, online, dictionary, second language, exam, school subjects: English, French, geography, German, history, maths, science, Spanish, sport, music
Unit Song: PB 7

Quiz Game

Some students checked out library books from the LEAP library. They are due in 2 weeks with a book report! 🙂

Welcome Butterflies!
Homework (HW): No HW today

Video: 10 Enchanting Butterfly Facts Revealed!

Rules: We talked about the Class Rules and signed our group poster. Be respectful (to your classmates, teachers, classroom), Listen, Raise your hand, Be prepared (bring books, pencil case, homework), Speak English

Class Dojo: Class Dojo is a Program-wide reward and motivation platform. Students earn points based on the following criteria:

When students earn 30 points, their eggs will hatch! As the year progresses, there will be more goals and rewards.

Game: „Fruitbasket Turnover.“ We talked about the summer and reviewed the Past Tense with a game. One person stood in the middle of a circle while everyone else sat in a chair. The person in the middle said something about their summer, i.e. „I swam in the pool. I ate sushi. I flew on an airplane.“) If you also did that during the summer, you had to get up and find a new chair to sit in (and the person standing in the middle tried to find a chair, too!)

Time Capsules: Students filled out Time Capsule worksheets with information about themselves (i.e. I’m wearing… I’m ____ meters tall. My favourite subject is…This year I plan to…) They will receive these in our last lesson together in June so they can reflect on the year and see if anything has changed!

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