Owls

Today was our last lesson for this year. We had a party with snacks and watched a short movie „Crow: The legend.“ Students also took home their review tests for units 6-8.

Homework: Activity Book 77/2 Do you remember?, “ can do“

Activity book: 77/1,2,3

Portfolio: Students practiced irregular verbs

Pupil’s Book: Unit 8 (pages 75-77)

Vocabulary & Grammar: Sports and seasons

Past participles ending in:

/d/ sound (climbed, played, listened, arrived)

/t/ sound (crossed, finished, jumped, walked)

/id/ sound (decided, needed, waited, wanted)

Unit 8 Story: Kid’s Box 5 -> Stories -> Unit 8 World of sports

Homework: 74/4, 75/1,3,4

Activity book: Unit 8 pages 72-74

Portfolio: Students wrote about their favourite sport

Vocabulary & Grammar: 

Sports: athletics, cycling, golf, racing, skiing, sledging, snowboarding

Seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter

Present Perfect Tense: We practiced with past participles and the Present Perfect tense to express recently completed actions.

Homework: Activity book 70/2

Pupil’s Book: Unit 7 (pages 70-71)

Students learned why turtles, orangutans, hummingbirds, and hedgehogs are endangered and how some people are helping them.

We also watched a video about bees and their importance

Vocabulary & Grammar: Unit 7 vocabulary, especially „habitat“ and „endangered“,fish scale, nectar, caterpillar, beehive

We also learnt about using the ‚when‚ to state facts student tried creating their own sentences eg: When we throw rubbish we pollute the environment.

Games: We played angry birds to go over everything we have learnt in unit 7

Homework: AB 67/2

Portfolio: Students drew a mind map for the words „Natural world“

Unit work: Pages 64-66

Students Talked about advice for different scenarios, using these prompts.

We watched a video about endangered animals, differenciated between the words „extinct“ and „endangered“

Vocabulary & Grammar: giving advice (should/shouldn’t); endangered species, extinct, insect, protect, stripes, spots, beetle, wing, butterfly, in danger

Games: Should/Shouldn’t Advice

Homework: Students have to finish all the homework they did not complete

Portfolio: Sentence Scrambles

Pupil’s Book: Units 5 and 6 Review (pages 62-63)

Vocabulary: All vocabulary from Units 5 and 6

Games: We played different games to reinforce everything we have learnt

Homework: AB 65/1,2 , 66/3,4

Portfolio: Students wrote about how they spent their easter holiday.

Pupil’s book: Unit 7 ,Natural World‘ pages 64-66

Vocabulary: Sun cream, endangered species,extinct,insect,protect, stripped,spotted,spots,beetle,wing

Grammar: Should, shouldn’t, question form: Should…?

Unit 7 song: Natural world

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Students got their tests back. They all did very well and I’m very proud of them. Ask your chidren to see them.

Homework: Activity book pages 62/1,2,3,63/4,5

Portfolio: Students completed sentences : It smells like….;It tastes like…..; It sounds like…, It feels like a warm…. and it looks like …..

Unit pages:59-61

Activity book: 58/3,4, 59/1,2,60/1,2

Vocabulary: sound waves, sound vibrations; sound words: clanging, roaring, honking, ringing, clattering, meowing, giggling, tapping, zooming

Diggory Bones Story: Kid’s Box 5 -> Stories -> Unit 6 Senses

What does it sound like? It sounds like… (Guess the Sound video)

Unit 6 Review game

Homework: AB 56/2,3, 57/1

Porfolio: Using the phrases: It smells good;it tastes sour;it feels soft etc. students had to make list of items that fall in these categories

Pupil’s book: Pages 56-58

Vocabulary: flour, dough, salt, basil, salami, pepper, fork, spoon, plate, base, topping, ingredients,oven,sausage,onion

Unit 6 Song: Kid’s Box 5 -> Songs -> Unit 6 Senses

Activity: Students had to draw a pizza and write all the ingredients they used.

Today we had the review test for units 3-5. Students who couldn’t make it to class will have it next week. We also started unit 6 ,Senses‘

PB: Pages 54,55

Vocabulary: senses hearing,sight,smell,tastes,touch

What does it look like/feel like/smell like/sound like/taste like?

Game: What does it sound like? students had to guess what the sounds were.

crosswords, I spy, words search with spring vocabulary

There was no homework today. Next week we have a test reviewing units 3-5

Portfolio: Students reviewed words from places around the city by unscrambling words.

Grammar& vocabulary: we went over the past continuous tense, looked at the months of the year, types of materials man-made and natural, giving directions and vocabulary from units 3-5 using games and worksheets.

Activity: Students drew a sculpture they created using different recycled materials. They came up with many interesting ideas. 🙂

Homework: 51/2, do you remember? ,49/1,3

Portfolio: Students made a list of man- made and natural materials

Vocabulary:  Materials: brick, sugar, rubber, fur, wool, paper, card, plastic, wood, stone, grass, leather, gold, silver, glass metal; made of, comes from, factory

Pupils book: pages 48-51

Pronunciation Focus: Connected speech. The final consonant sound and an initial vowel sound of two words link together (e.g. look at, come on, made of).

Unit Story: Kid’s Box 5 -> Stories -> Unit 5: Material Things

Game: Students guessed what an item is by asking questions like ,what is it made of?‘ ,where does it come from?‘ ,Does it have wheels?‘ etc

Homework: Activity book:44/1, 45/4,5

Portfolio: Practiced spelling tricky words from unit 4 eg. lightning, frightening, island etc

Pupil’s Book: pages 42-44,46-47

Vocabulary: Metal, gold, silva, rubber, plastic, fur, brick,wood,stone,grass, ash, magma, tectonic plates,geothermal energy

students practiced using „made of“ to ask each other questions. “ What is the table made of?“

Activity book: 42/2,46/1,2,4,47/1,3

Brain Break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqrHmWbQvYM

Homework: 39/1,3,40/1,41/ „Do you remember?“ , „Can do“

Portfolio: Students wrote down their favourite month of the year and why they like it.

Unit Story: Kid’s Box 5 -> Unit Stories ->Unit 4 Disaster!

Activity book: 38/4,40,40/2,42/1,2

Pupil’s book: Pages 39-41

Grammar: Students practiced the past tense of irregular verbs: see/saw, cut/cut, catch/caught,go/ went etc.

past continuous tense, pronunciation of vowel sounds A E I O U

Vocabulary: January, February….December.

Games: KB 5 unit game „Jungle Jams“

Homework: Activity Book 37/1, 37/2,38/1

Portfolio: What kind of weather do you like and dislike?

Vocabulary: Iceberg, earthquake, erupt, lightning, thunder, catch fire,island, storm, beach

Pupil’s Book: Unit 4 „Disaster!“ (pages 36-38)

Activity Book: 36/1, 36/2, 36/3; 38/2

Unit Song: Kid’s Box 5 -> Unit Songs -> Unit 4 Disaster!

Grammar: Past continuous- „What were you doing when it was snowing yesterday?“

was/were +verb-ing

Ordinals: 1st -29th

Games: Ball toss: weather words, quiz: Past continuous

Today being the first lesson of the year, we reviewed the previous chapter by practicing spelling,,vocabulary and playing games.

We also introduced unit 4 ,disasters‘ and watched a video on the topic.

Portfolio: What I did during my Christmas holidays.

Vocabulary: disaster, lightning, storm, island, beach

Christmas lesson

We had a fun Christmas lesson today. We played games, ate popcorn and watched a movie, solved some puzzles and word games. We also did some christmas crafts.

Homework: Activity Book 34/1, 35/1

Portfolio: Practicing giving directions: Go straight, turn right/left, cross the road, next to , opposite

Pupil’s Book: Unit 3 „City Life“ (pages 34-35)

Activity Book: 34

Vocabulary & Grammar: 

-Public transport, hanging train, cable car, electric, environmentally friendly, pollution, greener than, stuck in traffic

–Comparative and superlative adjectives: new (newer than, the newest); easy (easier than, the easiest); good (better than, the best); healthy (healthier than, the healthiest); green (greener than, the greenest); beautiful (more beautiful than, the most beautiful); interesting (more interesting than, the most interesting); expensive (more expensive than, the most expensive)

Game: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

Homework: Activity Book 32/4, 33/“Do you remember?“ and „I can“

Portfolio: Spelling different places in the city eg. Museum, Bridge, Theatre, etc

Unit Song: (Kid’s Box 5 -> Songs -> Unit 3)

Unit Story: (Kid’s Box 5 -> Stories -> Unit 3)

Vocabulary:

Prepositions: who, where, which. i.e. A place where you can post letters. (a post office); Someone who flies planes. (a pilot); Something which you have to buy when you go by bus or train. (a ticket)

reviewed directions: right, left, straight on, (at/on the) corner, past, across, along, to get lost, turn 

opposite, next to, behind, in front of

Places in a city: police station, theatre, bridge, street, post office, taxi, hotel, airport, restaurant, museum, castle, prison, bank, stadium, gym.

Pupil’s book: 31/1,2,3 , 32/1,4 , 33

This week we started unit 3, students also got their unit review tests back so you can take a look together at home. They all did very well 🙂

Homework: 28/1,2, 29/1,30/1

Porfolio: Students wrote about different places in the city and what we do there.

Book Pupil’s Book: Unit 3 „City Life“ (pages 28-30)

Activity book: 28/3,29/2,30/2

Vocabulary & Grammar: 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, university

Games: Students interviewed each other about activities they did over the week.

Homework: There was no homework , but students had some voluntary worksheets to take home.

Portfolio: we wrote about all the things we like about our English class

Test: Students took a review test of units0-2

Games: After the test, we played quiz games, did crosswords and word searches.

Homework: 23/2, Do you remember, can do ,25

Portfolio: Students wrote jobs starting with specific letters

Bookwork:Unit 2 „People at work“ (pages 22-25)

Vocabulary: Burn, candle,by accident,fuel, fire extinguisher, fireplace,gas, oxygen,heat, out of control,matches,plug, socket,safety, smoke alarm

Activity book: 22/3,4,23/1,24/1,2,

Unit Story: Diggory Bones (Kid’s Box 5 -> Stories -> Unit 2 People at work)

Games: Students played scategories in teams where they had to come up with words beginning with specific letters

Portfolio: What I like and don’t like about autumn

Bookwork: Unit 2 „People at work“ (pages 18-20)

Vocabulary: nurse, fire fighter, teacher, dentist, actor, artist, cook, doctor, football player, journalist, manager, mechanic, pilot, sports commentator, video game designer, writer

Spelling autumn words and a crossword puzzle

Grammar: future plans with „going to“ (e.g. I’m going to be a football player. I’m going to school.)

Game: Guess my job

Activity book: 18/1 19/1,2 20/1,2,3

Homework: 18/3, 21/1,2

Homework: Activity book 16/2,3,4

Portfolio: We wrote sentences related to the word documentary

‚Documentaries are about……..‘

‚Documentaries are…….. (using adjectives from previous lesson‘

‚My favourite documentary is……‘

Vocabulary: Camera operator, batteries, underwater, extinct, computer animations,drone camera

Book work: Unit 1 „Time for television“ (pages 16-17) and review of the whole unit. Activities: 16/2, 17/1. Activity book: 16/1, 17

Grammar: We learnt about adjectives, what they are used for and practiced using them and identifying them.

Game: Puzzle square ( using vocabulary from unit 1)

Homework: Activity book 14/3,4 15 ‘Do you remember?’

Vocabulary: amazing, bad, boring, exciting, funny, good, interesting,archaeology, bones, thief, TV screen

Portfolio: Students used the words from the new vocabulary to describe different TV programmes.

Grammar: „sh“ and „ch“ digraphs

Unit story:(Kid’s Box 5 -> Stories -> Diggory bones)

Bookwork: Unit 1 „Time for television“, pages 13-15. Activities: 13/1, 13/2, 14/1, 14/2, 14/3, 15/1 Activity book: 14/1,2 15/1,2

Game: Kid’s box 5 games ‚angry words‘ Here students practiced new words and telling the time from Unit 1

Homework: Activity book page Page 10  exercise 3, Page 11 exercise 2 &3 Page 13 exercises 1&2  

Portfolio: Students answered the questions“ What is your favourite TV programme?“ and

“ What is it about?“

Bookwork: Unit 1, Pages 10-13. 10/1,2,3 11/2, 12/2 13/3

Activity book: 10/1,2 12/1,2

Vocabulary: Telling the time: quarter past , Half past, quarter to. TV programmes: action film, cartoon, comedy, documentary, news, quiz show, sport, weather; TV: channel, episode, series

Closing: Played a game of musical chairs with the Kids box 5 songs- Time for television

Homework: Activity book page 4-exercise 1,2&3 , Page 6- exercise 2&3

Students also chose books from the library to read at home. Return date: 06.10.23

Portfolio: Students wrote 10 words that come to mind when they think about school

Today, students were introduced to their new textbook ( Kids box 5)

Bookwork: Unit 0 pages 4-7, Activities 4/2,3 , 5/2 , 6/2 ,7/1

Vocabulary: Blog, competition, prize, wi-fi, dictionary, exam, online. school subjects: maths, history, geography, science, Spanish, French, German, sport

Speaking: asking and answering the questions

How old are you?

How do you get to school?

What do you like to do?

What is your favourite subject?

What would you like to write about in the school blog?

15.9.

Homework: By the next lesson (22.9.) students need to scratch off their Activation Codes on the inside cover of their Activity Books and register on the Cambridge One Platform.

Introductions: „Find someone who…“ Students asked and answered questions in order to find out information about one another. For example: Find someone who likes reading (What is your hobby?); Find someone who watches TV every day (How often do you watch TV?), etc.

We are the Owls!: Students learned about their new class mascot. We watched a video and played a game.

Portfolio: Students decorated their new portfolio, which we will keep at school and use at the start of each class. Today the students wrote some ‚Fun Facts‘ about owls.

New Teacher: Today Miss Deanna taught the lesson, but Miss Maggie was helping the whole time and she will start to teach the class next time!