Rubrika: Blue Whales

Warmer
We watched a grammar video

Portfolio
Miss Stasia gave a description of the vocabulary and the students

Homework Check
We checked the following workbook homework

Game
We played a vocabulary dual game for unit 1

Upcoming Tests
Wednesday, 21 October: Listening Test
Monday, 2 November: Reading/Writing Test after the break

Warmer
We warmed up with the What Were You Doing Video about Past Continuous grammar 

Portfolios
We practiced using was/were + verb-ing to describe actions happening at the same time. Students wrote 4 sentences using was/were + ing
Write:
WAS / WERE + verb + ing
I / He / She / It          was   playing
You / We / They       were  playing

Grammar Practice
We practiced new grammar using the slide with the “while + was” structure.

Student’s Book
We worked through and completed page 10 activity 1, 2 and page 11 activity 1, 2, 3 – pop corn reading and vocabulary review.
We also completed page 12 activity 1, 2 – read a story about Punk Rock

Game 
We played Rock paper scissors game with new vocabulary.

Reminder homework due 19.10
Watch Unit 1 vocabulary videos at the top of this page.
WB 10 (1/2/3), 11 (1/2), 12 (1/2/3)

Library books due 19.10
If students bring a book report they get 2 extra points in Class Dojo and a stamp in their portfolio!

!!! PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE SCRATCHED OFF THE ACTIVATION CODES IN BOTH THE STUDENT’S BOOK AND WORKBOOK AND REGISTERED YOUR CHILD’S SUPER MINDS 5 TEXTBOOKS. YOU CANNOT DO THE LISTENING EXERCISES OR EXTRA ACTIVITIES AT HOME UNLESS YOU DO!!!

Welcome Miss Stasia!

Today the students were introduced to their new teacher, Miss Stasia, with ‚2 truths and a lie‘ (Miss Stasia has not run 2 marathons, but she has jumped out of a plane and has a tattoo of an alien!) And we played some name games – your child can show you their ‚name + move‘. Miss Stasia ‚passed her test‘ and remembered everyone’s names!

We reviewed our Class Rules (Listen When Others Speak, Be Respectful of Others, Speak English, Be Prepared and Ready to Learn, Raise Your Hand to Speak) and signed our ‚We Are A Team‚ Class Certificate. We can now hang it next to our Blue Whales Class Poster in our hallway!

We began Unit 1 (Disaster!) and learned our new vocabulary.
We played ‚Around the World‘ with our new words.

Unit 0 Tests were RETURNED. Please ask your child to see their test.

Homework due 19.10
Watch Unit 1 vocabulary videos at the top of this page.
WB 10 (1/2/3), 11 (1/2), 12 (1/2/3)

Library books due 19.10
If students bring a book report they get 2 extra points in Class Dojo and a stamp in their portfolio!

Dear Parents,

Thank you very much for your patience during this ‚teacher transition‘.

I am happy to inform you that I have hired a new teacher, Stasia Czupryna (American), and she will begin on Monday 12.10. Miss Stasia has already spent some time at school and has seen a few lessons, and she is really excited to be joining LEAP and to start teaching the students! I will be helping in the classroom and getting her settled in next week.

Once her profile has been completed, you will be able to learn a little more about her on our Team page. Her email is now at the top of this page. Please continue to inform her in advance when your child will be absent, or to contact her with other questions about your child.

We will begin Unit 1 on Monday. If your child has missed any lessons during Unit 0, please make sure they have completed all exercises in their Student’s Book and Workbook pages 4-9.

The homework assigned on 5.10. (WB 10/11) does NOT need to be done.

-Miss Deanna

This was Mr. Clay’s last class with the Blue Whales. Thank you for being great students!

Test: Unit 0 Test next Wednesday, 7.10.

Homework: Worksheet 1: Exercises 1,2. Worksheet 2: Exercise 1. Worksheet 3: Exercise 1.

Warm Up: We played another Wordwall game, this one about question words (what, who, when, why, how). Students read the questions and selected the correct question word that fit the situation.

Perfect Day (past tense): We wrote about our imaginary perfect days in the past. Student wrote 4 sentences in their Portfolio using the past tense. Some of us ate ramen, some of us watched our favorite movie on Netflix, some of us even met Ronaldo.

Games: We got to play several games to since we’ve finished the Unit 0 material. We played Heads Up for the first time. In Heads Up, student have a word on their forehead and their team must give them clues to guess the word without saying it to get a point. Students got into it, miming things like taking a selfie or closing a door.

We played a Baamboozle game called „Close Up Images“. Students were split into 2 teams. Each team was given an image zoomed in and had to guess what it was. Images included a strawberry, bubbles, snow, and a pencil.

Class Dojo: Students earned points for being quick to be ready for class and for completing their homework.

Reward: We played one round of Geoguessr, where we guessed Bangladesh and were in Sri Lanka. We then played a few rounds of „City of Pallermo“ (aka Werewolf). A few of the students played the narrators. The students started to build argument as to why they believed someone was or wasn’t the werewolf.

Reminder: There is no class on Monday as it is a holiday.

Homework: Page 8,9: All. Due 30.09

Warm Up: We played our first Wordwall game. Students spun the wheel and practiced saying irregular verbs in the past tense. We then made example sentences with the verbs in past tense. Example: Yesterday, I went to football practice.

Super Minds: We read the story on Pages 8 and 9. We learned what an experiment is, what we do with instructions (read, follow), and identified several of our vocab words in the story (powder, liquid, test tube, goggles, explosion). We did part of Activity 5. It was difficult but the Blue Whales got there in the end. At the end the story, the 3 adventurers‘ experiment goes awry and they walk into a mysterious portal. Where will it take them?

Games: We played „Yesterday I…“. In this game students gather in a circle and pass a ball or a microphone, from one student to the next. The first student says something they did yesterday (can be made-up), like „Yesterday, I ate pizza“. The next student says what the previous student said and then adds another sentence. This chaining continues until the last student must repeat what everyone said! It’s a good way to practice the past tense.

We also played a vocab-review game, „Hand Slap“. Student sit in a circle with interlocked hands and take turns gently slapping the hand of the next student while saying the letters of a vocab word one at time. For example: Bubbles – B-U-B-B-L-E-S. This helped the students to better understand tricky spellings like „instructions“ or „liquid“.

Reward: We played a few rounds of Geoguessr (corrected guessing Vietnam and Albania). We then played Werewolf for the first time. We worked out how to play and will be ready to have a smooth game next time. In Werewolf, students sit in a circle and there is one moderator. The moderator chooses roles: Werewolf, Doctor, Detective, Villager. Everyone goes to sleep (closes their eyes) and the moderator wakes up each role to do their job (discover the role of someone else, save someone, etc). The Werewolf wins if they aren’t caught by the end. Otherwise, everyone else wins.

Class Dojo: Students earned points for being quick to be ready with their books, speaking English, raising their hand, and having the longest chain of „D“ words in Word Tennis.

Homework: I will new homework assign on Wednesday, 23.09. We checked Page 4 assigned last week and the Blue Whales did well.

Warm Up: We shared about our weekends and played a „Categories“ variant called „Word Tennis“. Students said words beginning with „D“ back and forth and counted how long their streak could get. Our record was 33.

Super Minds: We went through Page 7 of the book, completing Activities 1 and 2. It helped us practice our use of the past tense in a sentence.

Reward: We played one round of Geoguessr, but the game was bugged and we couldn’t guess properly. We had a round with Arabic writing which the students recognized. The guessed Saudia Arabia, but it turned out to be not too far away in Jordan.

Class Dojo: Students earned points for being quick to be ready with their books, speaking English, raising their hand, and having the longest chain of „D“ words in Word Tennis.

Homework: due 21.9. Workbook Page 4, Exercises 1, 2 and Page 5, Exercises 1, 2 (Exercise 3 optional). We will cover Page 6 on Monday.

Warm Up: We played „Categories“, where students wrote as many „B“ words as they could in 60 seconds. It was impressive how many unique words students came up with in such a short period of time (even „bamboozle“ made the list).

Super Minds: We continued with page 5 of Super Minds. Did Exercise 1, completing the grid of which character had which subject yesterday. We then used words from Exercise 1 (mostly past tense verbs) to fill in the blank in Exercise 2. We then gathered to watch the video in Exercise 3, a cheetah who lives in a tree and eats chickens (the students were quick to point out that cheetahs don’t live in trees).

Games: We played a high-energy flashcard review game called „Fly Swatters“. In this game, students are separated into 2 teams. One student from each team is given a fly swatter. The teacher calls out a word („bubbles“) and the first kid to swat it gets a point. I was impressed how quickly the kids had picked up the vocab. We also played „2 Truths and a Lie“ – with sentences in the past tense while we were finishing the class poster.

Class Poster: We finished decorating our poster by gluing on our blue whale cutouts, photos and wrote our names. Well done, Blue Whales.

Class Dojo: Students earned points for thinking of a unique „B“ word in Categories.

Have a good weekend everyone.