Chameleons

Homework: AB64/1&2

Sumamry: Today we started unit 7. We focused on nature problems (littering, air pollution, deforestation, etc).

Giving Advice: Students practiced giving and asking for advice (“What should I do? You should/shouldn’t…”). This will be our grammar focus for this unit. 

Plink-oh!: This was a great way for the students to practice giving advice for various problems. 

Homework: No homework! 

Discussion: Students shared their plans for the Easter holiday. It was a fun opportunity to learn about their family’s traditions. 

Mystery Game: Students brought in some mystery items so we could play this game. It was a great way to practice asking and answering questions about what different items feel, taste, sound, smell and sound like. 

Easter Bingo: This was a fun activity to review vocabulary for Easter and its traditions (grass, Easter egg, duckling, chick, basket, tulip, etc)

🌷Have a Happy Easter! 🐣 

Homework: AB62/1&2

Summary: today we reviewed units 5&6 

Mystery game: We played a guessing game to practice asking and answering what things look, smell, taste, feel, sound like. This was a great way to practice our vocabulary and grammar.

Relay Race: We reviewed past tense, present tense, and present continuous tense. This was a fun and fast way to practice verb tenses. 

Homework: AB63/4&5

Extra credit: Students can bring in a mystery item to smell, touch, taste, feel, or hear.  We will play a guessing game with the items.

Summary: We continued our unit focused on the senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste). We discussed our favorite and least favorite things to hear and why. 

How can we hear?: Students watched a video on how sound travels. We learned how sound waves travel through vibrations, and what makes sounds higher or lower. We also learned that sound cannot travel through space because there’s no air!

Homework: AB55/1-3 

Extra credit: Students can bring in a recipe in English to share with the class. Be sure it includes the ingredients, the steps for how to make it, and a photo or drawing of the meal. See PB57/3 for an example. This is an optional assignment for fun. 

Summary: We continued our unit focused on the senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste). We discussed our favorite and least favorite things to smell, taste, hear, feel and see. 

Pizza: Students designed their own pizza with their favourite ingredients. This was a fun way to practice our new vocabulary (dough, thick crust or thin crust, oven, herbs like basil, thyme, and rosemary, etc)

Homework: AB54/1-3

Test: Today students were given back their tests on units 3, 4, & 5. 

Summary: We started a new unit focused on the senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste). We discussed what parts of our bodies we use to experience these senses, and what items we like or dislike to smell, taste, touch, hear, or see.

Senses: Students were given a variety of items to smell, taste, touch, hear, and see.  This was a great way to practice our new grammar. “What does it taste like? It tastes salty.”

Hearing: Students made different sounds, and we tried to guess what it was. “What does it sounds like? It sounds like a monkey.”

Sight: Each student created a rorschach ink blot test, and we all discussed what it looked like. Look at our rorschach tests. What do they look like to you?

Homework: No homework

Summary: We reviewed units 3, 4, & 5 to prepare for our test today. We focused on giving directions, places in a city, describing materials, and distinguishing when to use the different forms of be (am, is, are, was, were).

Game: Plink-Oh! This was a great game to review places in a city (museum, theatre, stadium, police station, etc).

Test: Students completed a test today on units 3, 4, & 5. They will be sent home next week. 

Homework: AB45/4&5

Summary: Today we reviewed units 3, 4, & 5 to prepare for our next test. We focused on giving directions, writing the months of the year, describing materials, and distinguishing when to use the different forms of be (am, is, are, was, were).

Giving directions: Students practiced giving directions to the class, and the class had to guess where they led us on a map. This was great practice for giving correct and understandable directions. 

Next class: We have a test scheduled for Tuesday, February 24th.

Library books: During the break please look around for any books from our library that you may have at home. 

🎊Have a great holiday! 🎉

Homework: AB47/1-3

Summary: Today we continued unit 5. This unit focuses on materials and what things are made of (These books are made of paper, The table is made of wood, etc). 

Creative Writing: Students created a new material, and told the class 1-3 special things about it. This was a great opportunity to use our creative thinking skills in English! 

Song: Students sang a song about different materials. This was also a good activity for listening comprehension.

Next week: We will review units 3, 4 & 5. The next test is scheduled for Tuesday, February 24th. 

Homework: AB46/1-4

Summary: Today we started unit 5. This unit focuses on materials and what things are made of (These books are made of paper, The table is made of wood, etc).

Video: Today we watched a video about Stella, Meera and Lenny visiting a Joke Shop. This was a good visual for discussing different objects and what they are made of (wood, brick, plastic, rubber, fur, wool, stone, sugar, etc.)

Game: Bowling! This was a fun way to practice our unit vocabulary. 

Homework: AB38/1-3

Summary: Today we focused on the months of the year, specific dates (birthdays, holidays, etc), and activities we do during different months or holidays. We also read about and discussed disasters and focused on volcanic eruptions (Pompeii and Vesuvius, Krakatoa, the Pacific Ring of Fire, etc) 

Game: Students played Baamboozle. This was a great opportunity to practice the vocabulary regarding disasters.

Discussion: We discussed active, dormant, and extinct volcanoes. The students told me about the extinct volcanoes in the Czech Republic, which was new for me! They were great teachers while explaining where they are located and the stories regarding them. 

Homework: AB39/1-3

Summary: Today we reviewed past simple verbs and past continuous verbs. We practiced forming sentences using both tenses. For example, “I was walking when I fell.” We also discussed disasters (avalanche, flood, volcanic eruption, tsunami, fog, etc). 

Competition: Students competed against each other in identifying and writing the correct past continuous verb forms with pronouns (I/She/He was walking. You/They/We were talking.)

Game: Students played Baamboozle where they had to decide which verb form they needed to complete the sentence (past simple vs past continuous). We also played a game to practice identifying our new disaster vocabulary. 

Song: Students sang a song about disasters. 

Homework: AB37/1-2

Summary: Today we reviewed past simple verbs and introduced past continuous verbs (we were walking, I was thinking, etc.). We also began discussing disasters. 

Competition: Students competed against each other in a variety of speed relay races. This was perfect for quickly categorising the different verb forms and practicing spelling them quickly. 

Game: Students played Baamboozle where they had to decide which verb form they needed to complete the sentence (past simple vs past continuous).

🎊🙌Welcome back to LEAP! 🥳🎉

Homework: No Homework! 

Summary: Today we reviewed and practiced using Christmas vocabulary (sleigh, mistletoe, tinsel, Christmas tree, snowflake, stocking, wreath, candy cane, elf, chimney, etc) 

Discussion: Students discussed what they want for Christmas and why. 

Game: Christmas traditions and vocabulary quiz! 

Video: Students watched Prep & Landing in English. 

🎅🏼🎄Merry Christmas! 🎄🎅🏼

Homework: AB30/1-3

Summary: We reviewed how to read maps and give directions in English. We also practiced using prepositions of place in relation to other buildings when describing how to find monuments and tourist attractions in a city. We also practiced giving directions for navigating Prague Metro! 

Game: Sticky ball map! This was a great way for students to select random points on a map and then describe how to get from point A to point B. 

Real life practice: Students discussed their favourite places in Prague (Prague Castle, Charles Bridge, Jump Park, Flying Tiger in Smíchov Mall, etc) and then they explained why they picked it, how to get there, and what you can do there.

Homework: AB31/1-3

Summary: Today the students practiced reading physical maps, and asking and giving directions in English.  They also practiced using prepositions of place while describing where buildings are located in relation to others. In addition to reviewing jobs, and where people work.

Video: Would you Rather? Christmas edition! This was a great way to prepare talking about the Christmas holidays and our preferences. 

Homework: AB28/1-3

Test: All students will bring home their first test today. Please email me directly with any questions or concerns.

Summary: Today the students learned how to read maps in English and how to give directions. 

Practice: We used a map from PB29 to practice using the new vocabulary and giving each other directions to different locations. 

Real life practice: Students were given a map of Prague, and they practiced giving and understanding directions in English to various locations.  This was great practice for helping tourists and foreigners in our city! 

Homework: None

Test: today on units 0-2 

Summary: Today the students reviewed and were tested on present simple verbs, telling time, making predictions and plans for the future (using “going to”), jobs, and adjectives. 

Students who were absent today will be tested next week, so please study the units and the review pages on 26 & 27 in the Pupils Book and Activity Book.

Homework: AB26/1-4 & study 

Test: units 0-2 on November 18th 

Summary: The students reviewed past tense verbs, telling time, making predictions and plans for the future (“going to”), jobs, and adjectives to prepare for their first test scheduled for next week. Please encourage your child to review and study at home to help prepare them. The test will be a review for units 0-2.

Creative Writing: Students worked together to write a short story using the phrase “going to” to make predictions about what will happen next in the story. 

Game: Students played a speed recognition game for jobs, and a speed writing game for telling time. We focused on using phrases like, “quarter to five, half past six, twenty-five to ten, etc.” 

Homework: AB20/1-4  

Summary: The students practiced talking about future plans and predictions using the phrase “going to.” We also discussed different job titles and responsibilities. 

Discussion: Students discussed their future career plans and explained why they would want to do a specific job. 

Game: Students played twenty questions to guess different jobs, and also played a speed recognition game for different job titles. 

Homework: AB19/1-3

Summary: Today we focused on plans, intentions and predictions using the phrase “going to.” This was good practice for talking about the future. 

Discussion: We played “rose, thorn, bud.” Students were paired with a friend and were instructed to tell their friend one good or bad thing, or something they were going to do in the future. 

Game: We played Taboo today. This is a great way to review and practice vocabulary and grammar. 

Homework: AB17 – Flyer’s Listening 

Summary: Today we discussed how documentaries are made, and the differences between the practices in the past and the present. This was a perfect way to practice comparing and contrasting things with present and past tense verbs. 

Creative Writing: Students pretended to write for a TV program (the news, sports, a documentary, etc). This was great practice for using the unit vocabulary in context and past tense verbs. 
Survey: Students wrote about a show or movie they watched last night or last weekend. They used adjectives to describe the episode or movie, and how it made them feel.

Homework: AB13/1-3

Summary: Today we reviewed past tense verbs, sang a rock song about time, and practiced our new vocabulary. We also practiced listening for the difference in the sounds between ch and sh words like choose and shoes, chair and share, and cheap and sheep. 

Song: We sang a rock inspired song to practice our new vocabulary and telling time. The students really got into karaoke! 

Game: We played charades and taboo today to practice our new vocabulary on TV programs (comedy, documentary, weather, etc).

Homework: AB11/1-3

Video: Would you rather..? Luxury edition 

• We finished the second half of this video today. It’s always a fun brain break for the students. 

Summary: Today we discussed different television programs, and shared what we like to watch on television. This was a great way to practice the new vocabulary in unit 1.  We also focused on telling time in English. 

Game: What time is it? For this game the students need to speed write what time I tell them. We practiced phrases, “It’s ten to six,” and more! 

HW: AB9/1-2 & Do you remember?

Video: Would you rather..?

• This was a fun brain break for the students. 

Summary: Today we discussed school subjects.  We asked each other about which are our favourite and least favourite school subjects and why. We also asked each other what activities we did this summer. This was great practice for recognising the differences in asking and answering questions in the present simple and past tense. 

Song: We sang a song about school subjects and routines. The students really got into singing karaoke! 

Homework (HW): AB5/3 and AB6/3

Video: Would you rather..?

• This was a fun brain break for the students. 

Summary: Today we talked about blogs and school subjects.  This was a fun way to discuss our classes in English and get to know each other better. We also practiced asking and answering present simple questions. 

Game: “Rock, paper, scissors.”  This game is a great way to review and practice new vocabulary and vocabulary from last year (Kids Box 4).  Today it was a reward for working so hard during the lesson.  

Homework (HW): Activity Book page 8, exercises 1-2 (AB8/1-2)

• The homework is a listening activity, so please email Deanna or me if you have any difficulty locating the audio files for the Cambridge activity books. 

Video: Real or Cake? 

• This was a fun brain break for the students. 

Summary: Today we talked about the Class Rules and signed our group poster: in English class we Speak English, Listen to each other, Raise your hand to speak, will Be prepared (bring books, pencil case, and homework), and will Be respectful to each other. 

We also asked each other what activities we did and where we travelled this summer.  It was a good opportunity to share our experiences and practice past tense verbs.  

Game: “Rock, paper, scissors.”  This game is a great way to review and practice vocabulary from last year (Kids Box 4), and the students always have fun with it.