Autor: Anna Holladay

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