Chameleons

Happy Easter! Enjoy the holiday 🙂 See you in two weeks.

Homework (HW):   None

Easter activities:

-Quiz game: https://www.baamboozle.com/game/973326

-„Easter Hunt“ and „Chocolate Bunny“ stories. Students created their own silly stories by first writing words based on prompts (parts of speech, e.g., adjective, noun, verb) without looking at the story and then filling in the story’s gaps. „Easter Hunt“ is below!

-„WANTED: The Easter Bunny is wanted for stealing eggs.“ Students created their own „Wanted“ poster by writing a description of the Easter Bunny. (What colour is his fur? How tall is he? How much does he weigh? Where was he last seen? etc.)

-Brain Break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtkDFPwJvaY&t=239s

Easter Lesson next week!

Homework (HW):  AB 67/2

Portfolio: Write advice for someone who is feeling sad. You should… You shouldn’t…

Pupil’s Book: Unit 7 „Natural world“ (pages 67-69)

Vocabulary and Grammar: Giving advice: should/shouldn’t

Endangered species, extinct, habitat, male, female

Activity Book: 67/1, 4; 68; 69/1, 2

Unit Song: PB 65/4

Diggory Bones Unit Story: PB 69

Homework (HW):  AB 65/1, 66/3

Portfolio: Write as many words about the natural world as you can in 2 minutes.

Pupil’s Book: Unit 7 „Natural world“ (pages 64-66)

Vocabulary and Grammar: Giving advice: should/shouldn’t

Endangered species, extinct, insect, protect, striped, stripes, spots, spotted, beetle, wing, butterfly, in danger

Activity Book: 64; 66/1, 2

Unit Song: PB 65/4

Game: Give advice with „should“ or „shouldn’t“

Homework (HW):  AB 63/5

Portfolio: Sentence Scrambles

Pupil’s Book: Units 5 and 6 Review (pages 62-63)

Special Story: Jack and the Beanstalk. Students completed vocabulary and comprehension exercises including „What other magic things do you think the giant had in his castle? What are they made of? Write and draw.“

Vocabulary and Grammar: All from Units 5, 6

From „Jack and the Beanstalk“: hen, giant, harp, axe, beanstalk; Past simple regular and irregular verbs

Activity Book: 62, 63/4

Homework (HW):  AB 60/2

Pupil’s Book: Unit 6 „Senses“ (pages 60-61)

Vocabulary and Grammar: sound waves, vibrations; all vocabulary and grammar from Unit 6

Activity Book: 61

Board game: PB 63

Can You Guess the Sound? The Game 8: „It sounds like…“

Kid’s Box 5 Unit 6 Review

Homework (HW):  AB 57 (whole page)

Pupil’s Book: Unit 6 „Senses“ (pages 57-59)

Vocabulary and Grammar: 

Senses: hearing, sight, smell, taste, touch

Describing sensations: What does it look/feel/taste/smell/sound like? It looks/feels/tastes/smells/sounds like…

Cooking: flour, salt, pepper, knife, fork, spoon, plate, salami, sausage, onion, delicious, yeast, mix, dough, base, olives, oven, ingredient, topping

Sentence Stress: We talked about how stressing particular words changes the meaning of a sentence. (THIS is my toy spider. This is MY toy spider. This is my TOY spider. This is my toy SPIDER.)

Role Play: Ordering a pizza

Activity Book: 58/1, 2; 59/1, 2

Unit Song: PB 57

Diggory Bones Story: PB 59

Chain game: On our pizza, there’s…. (say a topping, and the next student must say the first student’s topping, and add theirs on).

Homework (HW):  AB 56 (whole page). In Activity 2, the last letter of one word is the first letter of the next word. chips, salt, taste…

Pupil’s Book: Unit 6 „Senses“ (pages 54-56)

Vocabulary and Grammar: 

Senses: hearing, sight, smell, taste, touch

Describing sensations: What does it look/feel/taste/smell/sound like? It looks/feels/tastes/smells/sounds like…

Cooking: flour, salt, pepper, knife, fork, spoon, plate, salami, sausage, onion, delicious, yeast, mix, dough, base, olives, oven, ingredient, topping

Activity Book: 54, 55

Unit Song: PB 57

Game: What does it sound like? (PB 55/3) On slips of paper, students wrote 3 things that make different sounds. E.g. clock. (tick tock tick tock). We took turns drawing a slip, making the sound, and guessing.

Today we had the Units 3-5 Test. Good job, everyone! There is no homework for next week. 🙂

After that, we played a Present tense/Past tense dominos game and practiced some English tongue twisters:

• Sally sells seashells by the seashore.

• A big black bug bit a big black bear.

• Red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather.

• Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• A proper copper coffee pot.

• Fresh fried fish.

• Kitty caught the kitten in the kitchen.

Next week (24.2.): Units 3-5 Test

Homework (HW):  AB 38/3, 38/4

Pupil’s Book: Unit 5 (pages 52-53); Review Units 3-5

Today we reviewed Units 3, 4, and 5. Students also imagined they were sculptors and designed their own sculptures from recycled materials.

Vocabulary and Grammar: Units 3-5

Unit 5: Materials: brick, sugar, rubber, fur, wool, paper, card, plastic, wood, stone, grass, leather, gold, silver, glass metal; made of

Unit 4: Disaster: storm, island, beach, catch fire, lightning, tsunami, hurricane, iceberg

Unit 3: 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: 53

Unit Song: PB 49

Games: Practicing Directions, Units 3 and 4 Review

Homework (HW):  AB 50/4, 51/Do you remember?

Pupil’s Book: Unit 5 „Material things“, pages 49-41

Vocabulary: Materials: brick, sugar, rubber, fur, wool, paper, card, plastic, wood, stone, grass, leather, gold, silver, glass metal

Pronunciation: connected speech. The final consonant sound and an initial vowel sound of two words link together (e.g. look at, come on, made of).

Grammar: „comes from“ e.g. Wool comes from sheep. Paper comes from trees.

„made of“ e.g. The eggs are made of white chocolate. The spider isn’t made of fur. What are they made of?

Activity Book: 49; 50/1, 3; 51/1, 2

Unit Song: PB 49

Diggory Bones Story: PB 51

Games: The Yes/No Game (PB 50/4). One person thought of an object (from the pictures in the activity or something in the classroom) and the rest of the class asked questions that could be answered with „yes“ or „no.“ For example, „Is it smaller than a book?“ „Is it made of metal?“ „Do children play with it?“

Homework (HW):  AB 47 (whole page)

Pupil’s Book: Unit 5 „Material things“, pages 46-48

Vocabulary: Materials: brick, sugar, rubber, fur, wool, paper, card, plastic, wood, stone, grass, leather, gold, silver, glass metal

Grammar: „made of“ e.g. The eggs are made of white chocolate. The spider isn’t made of fur. What are they made of?

Activity Book: 46, 48

Unit Song: PB 49

Games: „What’s it made of?“ Each student got a “secret” material. They wrote 5 things in the room that are made of it. The others must guess the material.

Sorting materials into two categories: natural and man-made.

Units 3 and 4 Review board game (PB 45)

LEAP English Day Camp

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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 (including singing the unit songs).

Activity Book: 43, 44

Diggory Bones Unit 4 Story (PB 41)

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, doing my homework, going to my mom’s house)

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 (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: 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.

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: 36/2, 36/2

Brain Break: New Years Would you Rather

Merry Christmas!

Homework (HW):  No homework

Today we had a Christmas lesson! We watched „Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer“ and talked about it. We also talked about our Christmas plans and played Christmas vocabulary games.

Vocabulary: tinsel, garland, mistletoe, misfit, reindeer, Abominable Snowman, carolers, nutcracker, gingerbread, ornaments, jingle bells

Homework (HW):  AB 29/1, 34/1

Pupil’s Book: Unit 3 „City life“, pages 34-35

We learned about green transport all over the world: high-speed trains, cable cards, and hanging trains!

Activity Book: page 35

Vocabulary: Public transport, hanging train, cable car, electric, environmentally friendly, pollution, greener than

Grammar: Comparative and superlative adjectives (i.e. new, newer than, the newest; beautiful, more beautiful than, the most beautiful)

Brain Break: Santa Freeze Dance

Game: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

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

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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“

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

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 🙂

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

• 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

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! 🙂

Welcome Chameleons!

Homework (HW): No HW today

Videos: Chameleon

Four Corners Challenge

We talked about the Class Rules and signed our group poster: Be respectful (to your classmates, teachers, classroom), Listen, Raise your hand, Be prepared (bring books, pencil case, homework), Speak English

Game: „Fruitbasket Turnover.“ We talked about the summer and reviewed the Past Tense with a game. One person stood in the middle of a circle while everyone else sat in a chair. The person in the middle asked a question about the summer, i.e. „Who… (swam? ate Indian food? flew on an airplane?) If you did that during the summer, you had to get up and find a new chair to sit in (and the person standing in the middle tried to find a chair, too!)

Time Capsules: Students filled out Time Capsule worksheets with information about themselves (i.e. I’m wearing… I’m ____ meters tall. My favourite subject is…This year I plan to…) They will receive these in our last lesson together in June so they can reflect on the year and see if anything has changed!