Grizzly Bears

• OUR UNIT 3 TEST WILL BE ON WEDNESDAY 13.12.
  
  Intro: We began class with a game of Scattegories to warm up our brains
  
  Notebooks: In our notebooks we looked at silly photos and tried to answer the question: „What’s going to happen?“
  He/she is going to…
  They are 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
  
  Review Game: We reviewed for our unit test with a Jeapordy and a Bamboozle game.
  
  Student’s Book: We worked through Page 38 and 39 in the Students Book. We read and listened to our unit story.

• • • Page 37 in the Workbook are assigned as Homework for 13.12
      
      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
  
  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 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.
  
  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 36 and 37 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 Scattegories to warm up our brains.
  
  New Unit Introduction: To introduce our new unit, we listened to a short clip of music from each of the following genres: Classical, Techno, Folk, Pop, Rock, Rock N Roll
  
  Notebooks: In our notebooks we wrote down our favorite music artisits and why we like them.
  
  Unit 3 Vocab Words: We introduced our new Unit 3 Vocabulary: spotlight, backing singers, electric guitar, dancer, fans, bass guitar, stage, drum kit, bodyguards
  
  New Grammar: We introduced our first grammar point of the unit. Using „going to“ to talk about future plans.
  
  Example: I am going to have a holiday in December.
  
  Build a Band: In small groups students came up with ideas and an album cover for a band. It included:
  What are you going to name your band?
• What type of music are you going to play?
• What are you going to name your album?
• How long will your tour be? (Months)
• Where are you going to perform? (Cities)
• What instrument are each of you going to play?
  
  Student’s Book: We worked through Page 34 and 35 in the Students Book

• Unit 2 Test: We reviewed for and wrote our Unit 2 Test.
  
  Students Absent on Friday will write the test on Monday, November 25th.

UNIT 2 TEST WILL BE ON FRIDAY 22.11

Intro: We began class with a game of Scattegories to warm up our brains.

Notebooks: In our notebooks we wrote down our dream vacation destination and three things we have to bring and two things we don’t have to bring on holiday with us.

New Grammar: We practiced 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.

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 26 and 27 in our Student’s Books. We read and listened to the Unit 2 Story.

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 25 of the Workbook is assigned as Homework for 18.11

Intro: We began class with a game of Scattegories to warm up our brains.

Notebooks: We looked at big numbers and practiced writing them as words in our notebook.
Example: 15,492 = fifteen thousand four hundred ninety two

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

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

Student’s Book: We worked through Page 30 and 31 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 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 2 Vocab Words: We introduced our new Unit 2 Vocabulary: beak, toucan, jaguar, branch, creeper, anteater, sloth, anaconda, beetle, pool

Student’s Book: We worked through Page 22 in our Student’s Books.

Halloween Party: We did some Halloween related activities and ate some candy.

• UNIT 1 TEST REVIEW: We reviewed for our Unit 1 Test in our notebooks.
  
  UNIT 1 TEST: We wrote our Unit 1 Test.
  
  Have a great fall break!

• OUR UNIT 1 TEST WILL BE ON THURSDAY OCTOBER 25th.
  
  Intro: We began class with a game of Scattegories to warm up.
  
  While Practice: Students would come to the front and act out actions at the same time for 10 seconds. When they finished the rest of the class would make a sentence.
  
  Example: While Tim was sleeping, Sara was flying a plane.
  
  Notebooks: In our notebooks we looked at two pictures and wrote sentences using While to describe what we saw.
  
  Example: While Spiderman was swinging, Cinderella was cleaning her house.
  
  Unit 1 Vocab Words: We practiced our new Unit 1 Vocabulary: smoke, volcano, temple, theatre, statue, vase, fountain, servant, columns, and horse and cart.
  
  Example: While John was reading a book, his sister was watching TV.
  
  Students Book: We worked through Page 14 and 15 in the Yellow Book.
  
  Unit Story Act Out: We practiced our lines and acted out our Unit Story in two groups.

PAGES 12 (Activity 1) and 13 of the Workbook are assigned as HW for 21.10

Intro: We began class with a game of Hotseat to practice our vocabulary.

Notebooks: In our notebooks we watched this video and wrote down 4 things Spongebob was doing. This helped practice our past continuous grammar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plfR2HEQuYQ

Unit 1 Vocab Words: We introduced our new Unit 1 Vocabulary: smoke, volcano, temple, theatre, statue, vase, fountain, servant, columns, and horse and cart.

New Grammar: We introduced our second grammar point of the unit: Using „While“ to speak about two things happening at the same time in the past.

Example: While John was reading a book, his sister was watching TV.

Students Book: We worked through Page 13 in the Yellow Book.

End of Class Game: We ended class with a game of Mafia. Where students have to work together to find our who the „murderer“ is.

PAGES 10 and 11 of the Workbook are assigned as HW for 14.10

Intro: We began class with a game of Scattegories to warm up.

Notebooks: We watched videos about natural disasters and in our notbeooks we came up with a survival plan for what we would do if a disaster came to Prague.

Unit 1 Vocab Words: We introduced our new Unit 1 Vocabulary: smoke, volcano, temple, theatre, statue, vase, fountain, servant, columns, and horse and cart.

Students Book: We worked through Page 16 in the Yellow Book.

Natural Disaster Project: In groups students did research on different natural disasters and presented that information to the class. They researched the following questions.
Needs to Include:
What are they?
How do they happen?
When and Where can they happen?
What can it do to a place?
How can we be safe in one?
2 Fun Facts
A Color Picture

• PAGES 10 and 11 of the Workbook are assigned as HW for 14.10
  
  Intro: We began class with a game of Scattegories to warm up.
  
  Notebooks: Students imagined that they had a time machine and could travel to either Dinsosaur Times, Roman Times, or the Future. They wrote which they would want to visit and three reasons why.
  
  New Unit: Introduced the new unit with a video and presentation on Natural Disasters.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9klE-iUxX0c
  
  New Unit 1 Vocab Words: We introduced our new Unit 1 Vocabulary: smoke, volcano, temple, theatre, statue, vase, fountain, servant, columns, and horse and cart.
  
  Students Book: We worked through Page 10 in the Yellow Book.

We practiced for and wrote our Unit 0 Test.

Students will bring each test home after all students in the class have taken the test and all tests have been graded.

• • PAGES 6 (only activity 1) and 7 of the Workbook are assigned as HW for 04.10
    
    OUR UNIT 0 TEST WILL BE ON FRIDAY 04.10
    
    Intro: We began class with a game of Scattegories.
    
    Notebooks: Students pretended they were police officers questioning someone who stole something very valuable. They needed to ask the robber questions to find our more information.
  • Why do/did you…?
  • How do/did you…?
  • Where do you…?
  • What do you …?
  • Who do you…?
  • Did/Do you…?
    
    Unit 0 Vocab Words: We practiced our Unit 0 Vocab: goggles, shelf, apron, explosion, bubbles, liquid, instructions, powder, test tube, gloves.
    
    Question Practice: We played a game called Headbands to practice asking questions.

• PAGES 6 (only activity 1) and 7 of the Workbook are assigned as HW for 02.10
  
  Intro: We began class with a game of Timebomb to warm up.
  
  Notebooks: Students wrote down the name of a celebrity and then wrote four questions they would like to ask the celebrity using our question words. Then they pretended their classmates were the celebrity and interviewed them.
  
• Why do/did you…?
• How do/did you…?
• Where do you…?
• What do you …?
• Who do you…?
• Did/Do you…?
  
  Unit 0 Vocab Words: We practiced our Unit 0 Vocab: goggles, shelf, apron, explosion, bubbles, liquid, instructions, powder, test tube, gloves.
  
  Class Story: By looking at pictures in our Students Book students wrote down words they thought of when looking at the pictures. Then we assembled a story using those words.
  
  Students Book: We worked through Page 8 and 9 in the Yellow Book.

• PAGES 4 and 5 of the Workbook are assigned as HW for 27.09
  
  Intro: We began class with a game of Scattegories to warm up.
  
  Notebooks: Students imagined that yesterday was a perfect day and wrote 4 sentences about what they did on the perfect day:
  
• I got up at 9:30. 
• I drank a big cup of coffee.
• I went for a hike in the mountains.
• I played video games with my friends.
• I ate steak and potatoes for dinner.
  
  Unit 0 Vocab Words: We practiced our Unit 0 Vocab: goggles, shelf, apron, explosion, bubbles, liquid, instructions, powder, test tube, gloves.
  
  Students Book: We worked through Page 6 and 7 in the Yellow Book.

PAGES 4 and 5 of the Workbook are assigned as HW for 27.09

Intro: We began class with a game called Hotseat to practice our new vocabulary

Notebooks: Students imagined they were time travelers returning from a journey through the past. They wrote about their experiences using Past Tense Verbs:
In Dinosaur times I …
In Ancient times I …
In Medieval times I …

Unit 0 Vocab Words: We practiced our Unit 0 Vocab: goggles, shelf, apron, explosion, bubbles, liquid, instructions, powder, test tube, gloves.

Students Book: We worked through Page 5 in the Yellow Book.

Poster: As a class we finished our poster which will hang in the main hallway of the school

Intro: We began class with a game called Scattegories where students have to come up with words that start with a certain letter and fit into categories.

New Unit: We introduced our new unit „The Science Lesson“ with some videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ASLLiuejAo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHnVVEqKmYA&t=268s

Notebooks: In our notebooks students became mad scientists and came up with an „invention“ to solve a problem they have:

Go Homeinator: Shoot yourself with the Go Homeinator and it instantly takes you home and puts you in your bed.


Unit 0 Vocab Words: We wrote down and practiced our Unit 0 Vocab: goggles, shelf, apron, explosion, bubbles, liquid, instructions, powder, test tube, gloves.

Students Book: We worked through Page 4 in the Yellow Book.

Poster: As a class we began finalizing our poster which will hang in the main hallway of the school.

Intro: We began class with a game called Scattegories where students have to come up with words that start with a certain letter and fit into categories.

Notebooks: In our notebooks students wrote past tense sentences about what they did this past summer:

I went to…
I saw…
I did…

Textbook Scavenger Hunt: Students worked in groups and opened their textbooks to try and find various things on a list.

1. 4 Unit Titles
2. 3 Character Names
3. 3 Big Questions + (page #)
4. 2 Think and Learn Titles + (page #)
5. 1 Superfact + (page #)
6. 1 Country Flag + (page #)
7. 1 Unit Song + (page #)
   
   Poster: As a class we began finalizing our poster which will hang in the main hallway of the school.

Intro: I introduced myself to the class and gave some information about where I’m from and my hobbies.

Two Truths and a Lie: I gave three „facts“ about myself where one was not true and the students had to guess which „fact“ was untrue. The facts were:
I have been to China
I play the guitar.
I have a fake tooth.

Then the students made their own and as a class we guessed which fact was untrue for each student.

Notebooks: Students had time to write their name and decorate their notebooks.

Class Rules: We dicussed rules for our class and introduced a classroom management system called Class Dojo.

Class Mascot: We watched videos and answered questions about our class mascots:

Polar Bears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zRGzlWqce4

Grizzly Bears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTcbqzYIqpk

Class Poster: We began work on our class poster which will hang in the main hallway of the school.