Rubrika: Owls

Homework: AB63/4&5

Extra credit: Students can bring in a mystery item to smell, touch, taste, feel, or hear. 

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: AB54/1-2 & AB55/2-3

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).

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

Rorschach test: 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 Thursday, February 26th.

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 Thursday, February 26th. 

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 focused on disasters and specifically volcanic eruptions (Pompeii and Vesuvius, Krakatoa, the Pacific Ring of Fire, etc) 

Game: Students played Baamboozle. This was a great opportunity to practice this unit’s grammar and vocabulary regarding disasters.

Discussion: We discussed active, dormant, and extinct volcanoes. The students told me about the extinct volcanoes in the Czech Republic, and volcanoes they have visited.

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 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 (Santa, sleigh, Christmas tree, etc)

Story-telling: Students played Roll A Story to practice their creative writing skills. 

Game: We had a snowball fight! This was a great way to test our Christmas knowledge. 

Video: We all watched The Grinch together. 

🎅🏼🎄Merry Christmas! 🎄🎅🏼