25.11.

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

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

Today we practiced giving and following directions using maps (both in the book and our imagined „LeapLand“ in the classroom!

Activity Book: 28

Brain Break: Thanksgiving Freeze Dance

18.11.

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, they competed in quiz games practicing past tense verbs. Well done today!

11.11.

Homework (HW):  AB 26 (whole page)

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: 27 (whole page)

Game: Quiz Game

Test on 18.11.: Starter Unit, Unit 1, and Unit 2.

4.11.

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)

Game: Who am I? One student sits in a chair facing their classmates. They silently choose a job. The rest of the students have a total of 10 yes/no questions to figure out which job the student chose.

Test on 18.11.: Starter Unit, Unit 1, and Unit 2.

21.10.

Homework (HW):  AB 19/3; 20 (whole page)

Pupil’s Book: Unit 2, pages 18-20

Activity Book: 18 (whole page); 19/1, 2

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.

Beach Ball Toss: Students asked and answered questions using „going to“

14.10.

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)

Brain break: Would you rather? Pets

Games: Units 0 and 1 Review Quiz

7.10.

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.

Diggory Bones Unit 1 Story, Pupil’s Book page 15: Watch again using your CambridgeOne login 🙂

30.9.

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)

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

Brain Break: Would you rather?

Games: https://www.baamboozle.com/game/69918; https://wordwall.net/resource/22445710/kb-5-unit-1-tv

23.9.

  • HW: AB 7/3, 9/2
  • Portfolio: random order of subjects on the board: geography, music, maths, science, history, computer studies, sport
  • In their portfolio, children listened and wrote the school subject (audio-PB 7/1)
  • New words – dictionary, definition
  • Practice definitions/subjects: “In this subject, we can learn about numbers and shapes. What is it?” (Maths) 
  • Students were asked to choose a school subject, say the definition, others had to guess (PB 7/5)
  • PB 7/3 (song): Which subject does the singer love? Which subject does the singer enjoy?
  • AB 7/1
  • Introduction of Diggory Bones – an archaeologist
  • PB 9  book story – Diggory Bones (video)
  • Reading the story in character groups: Diggory, Diggory’s father, Emily

16.9.

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: Unit 0 „Welcome to our blog“, pages 4-6

Activity Book: 4/1, 3, 4; 5/1, 3

Vocabulary: blog, competition, prize, wi-fi, online, dictionary, second language, exam, school subjects: English, French, geography, German, history, maths, science, Spanish, sport, music

Students checked out library books from the LEAP library. They are due in 2 weeks, on 30.9. with a book report! 🙂