Rubrika: Grizzly Bears

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

Student Book and Workbook
We worked on pages 13,14,15

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.

Students also created a drawing with their partners to replicate the while + was examples we learned. Then presented drawings and grammar examples to their classmates.

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‘ and ‚What’s Missing‘ with our new words.

We also did Student’s Book:
Page 10 (1, 2)
Page 11 (1, 2, 3)
Page 12 (1, 2)

Unit 0 Tests will be RETURNED on Wednesday. Please ask your child to see their test then.

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 Grizzly Bears. 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.

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

Reward: 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.

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

Homework: Pages 7, 8: All. Page 9: Activity 5. 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 ate pizza.

Super Minds: We reviewed what happened in the story on Page 8 then finished reading the story with Page 9. The students persevered through a difficult Activity 3 to answer questions about the story. We learned the word „experiment“. At the end the story, the 3 adventurers‘ experiment goes awry and they walk into a mysterious portal. Where will it take them?

Class Dojo: Students earned points for being quick to be ready with their books, helping with tasks and speaking English.

Reward: We played Geoguessr, a game where you are placed somewhere in the world (Google Streetview coverage) and you must guess where you are. We had a round in Latvia and a round in the Philippines.

Homework: I will assign the new homework on Wednesday. We checked last week’s assigned homework, Pages 4-6. The students have a good grasp of the Unit 0 vocabulary and their past tense usage is improving.

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 hard to say exactly but may have been as high as 45 in our group of 3.

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. We also did Page 8 where students created their own story of a science experiment gone wrong using the pictures on the page. We then listened to the story up until the end of Page 8. What will happen to our Time Travelers?

Games: We played „Yesterday I…“. In this game students gather in a circle and pass a ball („Mr. Star“), from one student to the next. The first student says anything 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 past tense.

We also played a vocab-review game, „Rock, Paper, Scissors“, that the students had played before. The student were so quick saying the words that I had to make sure they were really saying the words!

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.

Reward: We played Bowling mode in Baamboozle. We played a difficult animal quiz. Did you know lobsters had 10 legs if you include their claws? I didn’t.

Note: Below is the same homework assigned Monday + Page 6. Next week I will assign all the week’s homework on Monday. Sorry for the confusion.

Homework: due 21.9. Workbook Page 4, Exercises 1, 2. Page 5, Exercises 1, 2. Page 6, Exercises 1, 3.

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.

Super Minds: We continued with page 6 of Super Minds. We listened to a song about the book’s 3 characters, Phoebe, Alex, and Patrick, and their time-traveling adventure. Trippy. We answered Exercise 1’s questions as a class.

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.

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

Have a good weekend everyone.