Blue Whales

Notebooks: Students made up a holiday and traditions for their new holiday and then discussed it with the class.

Easter and Outdoor Games: Played a series of English language games both indoors and outside.

Intro: We began class by warming up our brains with a game of Scattegories

Notebooks: Students wrote and discussed these questions about jobs:

New Vocabulary: Introduced our new words: farmer, artist, engineer, designer, cleaner, dentist, businessman, businesswoman, computer programmer, mechanic.

Easter Games and Activities: Played Easter games and had an „Easter Party“.

Portfolio: Did some grammar review from Unit 7 for the students who would take that test today.

Test: missing students completed test while other students did a worksheet.

Karoke Wednesday: Today we did 2 karoke songs for reading practice.

Story Project: I brought in my camera that prints photos. I split the students into teams. First they had to make an idea for a story using past tense grammar. Then I would take students to the hall way in groups, they would tell me what photos they needed for their stories. Then I printed and gave to them, they glued on nice paper and wrote stories. after they shared with the class.

Portfolio and Test Review

Took Unit 7 test! Students did super well.

Played game after 🙂

Portfolio: I will sentences and Have just sentences

SB page 125 for review, activity 1 and 2

Activity: Verb Tenses Jeopardy in teams.

Unscramble: Grammar Review

Game: Battle Arena Vocabulary review

Game: Have Just Baamboozle

Portfolio: Review of present perfect

Review: Grammar review using I’ve just ____, etc. Went over the present perfect.

Game: Charades using present perfect. Students in teams had one member acting out the word whilst the other team had one minute to guess as many as possible.

Activity: Present Perfect Bingo, each card had the present perfect form and I called out the verb and used it in a sentence.

SB: Page 86-87 we listened to the story together and did activity 3 and 4.

WB: Page 86, activity 1 and 2 from the story.

Final game: Present Perfect Baamboozle.

Today we had both classes mixed so we focused on unit 4-6 review. Past units and new unit material!

Vocabulary Games: Battle Arena, Chinese Whisper, and Bomba

Grammar: Team Jeopardy with the past units’s grammar.

Porfolio: Grammar math, contractions

Vocab review: unit 4-7 vocab review with cowboy stand off

SB: page 85, acting using ‚just‘. Contraction practice and just practice.

Grammar activity: We watched an episode of Peppa Pig, during the video students wrote 10 sentences using the new grammar to describe what Peppe had just done.

Game: team Charades using ‚She’s just, He’s just…“

WB: page 85 activity 1,2 and 3

Game: Heads up on iphone

test Day! Students did super well on their tests 🙂

test This week!

Portfolio: introduced could you and do you mind questions

New Grammar: Did page 73 in the SB, talked about the new grammar and watched the Leo the Lion video. Each student made a question. Did activity 1 and 2 of page 73 in the WB.

Question Creation: game here

Story: We did SB story on page 74/75. We listened and read the story, students also acted it out. We did activity 3 and 4 in pairs.

Game: both classes did really well with all their work today, rewarded with a game of Mafia outside!

portfolio: capitals

Activity: With many students out for the ski trip, we did activities outside of the textbook. Today we focused on Europe: capitals and flags. We did lots of matching, games, and bomb game.

Game: we went outside with Mr.Will’s class and played a Werewolf!

Intro: We began class by warming up our brains with a game of Scattegories.

Notebooks: In our notebooks, students gave me even more advice on a few „problems“ I had. Practicing our new grammar should for advice and recommendations.

Grammar Practice: Then students were assigned a problem, and they had to ask their classmates for advice using should.

Unit 6 Vocab Words: We practiced our new Unit 6 Vocabulary: flag, cushion, cup and saucer, carpet, basket, rings, earrings, sunglasses, plate, comb, soap.

City Guesser: We played a game where students watched a video clip of someone walking around a city and then had to guess which city and country they were in.https://virtualvacation.us/guess

Students Books: We worked through Students Book Page 76

Zkoušky Cambridge English – Flyers

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introduced new unit!

Portfolio: Should vs Shouldn’t

New Unit Vocabulary: Page 70, Talked about Cities, Countries, and Continents. Talked about Istanbul and watched a video on the markets of Istanbul. Did activity 1 and 2

Vocabulary game: Cowboy Standoff and Vocabulary cards

New Grammar: Went over should and Shouldn’t. Talked about rules and giving advice. Gave some situations and the student gave each other advice. Also talked about travelling students told me where they have went and what I should do if I go there.

test day! Students did very well on their tests!

test on wednesday!

Portfolio: possessive apostrophe practice.

Activity: gameshow quiz : https://wordwall.net/resource/31571256/english/possessive-apostrophe-quiz

SB 62: Story time, we did activity 1-4 and read the story in partners . Also we acted out the story.

WB 62: Did activities 1-3 and talked about Billy the kid.

Baamboozle: Did a practice for the test Wednesday.

Portfolio: did a wordwall, matching Made of/Used For, find here

New Grammar: Introduced possessives on page 61. Talked about this a lot on the board and with examples from the students. (example: Honza’s book / the students‘ book)

Activity: We watched a video about possessives, at the end I asked questions weather we add |’s| or |s’| and students went to one side of the classroom or the other.

WB: We did page 61 in the workbook together.

Activity: Possessives Jeopardy, using baamboozle. Split the students into teams and gave each a whiteboard marker, students wrote the answers and won points for their team.

Portfolio: Made of/used for matching

Review: re-taught the vocab and grammar for students that missed it. Had students teach me and the students thta missed!

Bomb: We played the bomb game using the new and old vocabulary words.

SB activity: We did page 65, learned about native americans, watched some videos on how they live, their homes, etc and talked about if we could live there, etc- good discussion!

Game: Jeopardy, we played wild west jeopardy also including the new grammar!

Portfolio: Spelling Review

SB: New grammar and Song

Grammar Activity: Touch something make of ______. Etc

WB: Did Matching activitiy to the SB song.

Activities: We did Karoke of country music

Introduced new unit: Went over all new vocabulary, spelling, defintions, etc. Did activity 1 and 2.

video + game : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeamQF4qRxY talked about what a cowboy standoff is. then we did our own standoff. Students stood back to back holding vocab cards. When I said go they took three steps away from each other, and when i said shoot they turned and the first student to say the word correctly one a point for their team.

activity: https://wordwall.net/resource/75370691/super-minds-5-unit-5 on the board, students race to make leaderboard

Writing activity: Create a Criminal. We made „Wanted“ posters using the new vocabulary. Drew and designed a poster.

TEST TODAY

Review: Talked about what is on the test. Students taugh me, as a form of review.

After test Games: Today we talked about AI and food. Talked about whats real and fake, played games detecting what was Ai food or real.

TEST THIS WEEK

Portfolio: Unscramble the Zero Conditional sentences

SB 50: Read together in groups, do activity 3 and 4. Go through new words, explain the story. Talked about birthday meals, what we eat on our birthdays, what we don’t like.

Acitvity: Ordinal Numbers, dates, and holidays Bingo! Played two times, winners were able to choose videos and games.

WB 50: Do activities 1,2,3 in groups, students practiced typing as we reviewed answers together.

Activity: Games for test review!

Portfolio: Going over bigger ordinal numbers.

Game: We played the bomb game with new vocab.

SB 49: Did the reading together, talked about food of the future. Introduced Zero Conditional using If. Spent a lot of time on this topic, at first it can be hard to understand but we got it!
Video: watched this cool video about 3d printed food and if we would eat it in the future.

Grammar: We went over the grammar again, each student first came up with their own sentences, then we came to the board to write second ones, we went around the class talking about their examples.

WB 49: To go over the grammar again we did these first three activities together, and the third on in pairs.

Ending Activity: we played a game on the computer of tik tak toe using zero conditional.

Portfolio: Talking about dates, What date will it be in two weeks, what date next Friday, etc

Sb 48: Talked about dialogues. First listened to the dialogues, then students read them out loud. Talked about pizza toppings.

activity: first 5 minutes drawing their dream pizza (ice cream pizza, spaghetti pizza) and their nightmare pizza (spider pizza, etc) Then in pairs they made a 15 line dialogue to preform in class about the pizza, what they like, where they like to eat, etc

video: brought back a video from first grade to inspire their dialogues.

WB 48: Did activity 1 and 2 together.

Game: Telling dates and reading calendars.

Portfolio: Spelling/drawing new vocab

Vocab review: Some students were missing so i had the students teach us the new words, then played a vocabulary game.

New Grammar: SB 48 activity 1/2 Introduced new grammar, ordinal numbers/dates. Talked about birthdays and holidays.

Writing: Did activities 1/2/3 in WB page 48 together

Games: Team, oridinal numbers word search, winners chose the next game for this Baamboozle.

Homework WB 46 due next week. Library books due beginning of February

Portfolio: talked about new years resolutions

New Unit: Introduced new unit, unit number 5 in student book page 46. Also did Activity 1 and 2. Played pictionary and did spelling bee with the vocabulary words.

Worksheet: Did this worksheet in groups, went over new words and made a game out of it

Game: Played word association game between food and words from the restaurant.

Today we played Christmas games and watched a Christmas movie!

Merry Christmas 🙂

Intro: We warmed up our brains with a Christmas edition of Scattegories.

Notebooks: In our notebooks we answered some Christmas questions:

Are you excited for Christmas? Why or Why not?

What do you want for Christmas?

What are you going to do on Christmas?

What’s your favorite thing about Christmas?

Christmas Film and Activities: We concluded the lesson by watching the classic Christmas film „Home Alone“ in English and I gave the students some candy and treats while they watched and completed some Christmas activities at their desk.

Unit 3 Test: We reviewed for and wrote our Unit 3 Test.

TEST THIS WEEK

Test review today: Talked more about telling time, watched parts of this video on it and did this worksheet about it in groups. Used interactive clock to tell times, played this game in pairs.

Vocabulary review: went through the vocab again: definitions, spelling, writing, and photos

SB 38/39: We read the story in small groups, than did activity 1-4. The students all told me about the story and acted some parts out.

WB 38: Act 1 and 2

Games: Did runnning jeopardy in three teams, not only do they have to get the answer right but they run around the classroom, its a fun one. here

vocabulary tiles: We worked on spelling in groups with the tiles

SB pages 36 and 37.

SB 36: We sang with the class, boys versus girls. Then a freeze dance. Did activity 1 along side WB page 36 activity 1 and 2

SB 37: Introduced new grammar point telling time, should be a review for the kids.

Activities: We did a few telling time activities on the board, interactive clock, and some team work here.

Homework page 34 and 35 due next Wednesday

Introduced new grammar: Going To

Book Work: We did page 35 activity 1

Played a Bamboozle with new grammar here: https://www.baamboozle.com/game/41814

Did worksheet in pairs using going to: https://www.teach-this.com/images/resources/island-adventure-2.pdf

Introduced new unit vocabulary. Talked about ‚rock n roll‘, watched videos for each new word.

Games: Spelling bee, Charades, and Bamboozle for music.

Students who missed the test last week completed it today in class whilst other students did a worksheet.

Test! We took the test and the kids did super well on it.

UNIT 2 TEST WILL BE ON WEDNESDAY 20.11

Intro: We began class with a game of Scattegories to warm up our brains.

Notebooks: In our notebooks we wrote down our dream vacation destination and three things we have to bring and two things we don’t have to bring on holiday with us.

New Grammar: We introduced our second grammar point of the unit: using have to and don’t have to to speak about rules and obligations.
Example:
We have to bring boots to the jungle.
She has to clean her room before dinner.
I don’t have to leave early today.

Unit 2 Vocab Words: We practiced our new Unit 2 Vocabulary: beak, toucan, jaguar, branch, creeper, anteater, sloth, anaconda, beetle, pool

Student’s Book: We worked through Page 26 and 27 in our Student’s Books. We read and listened to the Unit 2 Story.

Grammar: Did SB 24, talked about how to create questions, turning has to/have to negative, and sentence creation. Did WB 23 Activity 1.

Guessing game: Students were given a white board, I asked questions like „What is the population of Prague?“ The students wrote a number and said it to me, the student closest to the real number won.

Jeopardy: Students broke up into three teams, we did a Jeopardy about Have to/Has to obligations. The jeopardy went over sentence unscrambling, sentence creation, negatives vs positives, and fill in the blank.

Book work: Did SB 24 full page: students in pairs practiced the dialogue in front of the class. We talked about what the dialogue means using ‚has to/have to‘.

Practice: In pairs students made their own dialogue talking about a made up video game or their favourite game, done in front of the class.

New grammar: taught the new grammar, practiced with a quiz and jeopardy teams

Introduced new grammar, using big numbers

Did SB act 1 and WB 1 and 2

Games: We played number bingo and Number red light green light

Talked about the amazon rainforest, the animals that live there, the things that come from there, types of rain forests, climate change ,etc

WB 22- HOMEWORK DUE NEXT MONDAY 🙂

Whats new: Introduced and went over new vocabulary

SB page 22 activities 1 and 2

Practiced spelling and old grammar, lightly introduced new grammar coming this week.

Took test today. Did some test prep with a wordwall and some book work.

Took test, played word games, and watched Halloween Mr.Bean!

TEST WEDNESDAY for blue whales and FRIDAY for Cheetahs

Portfolio: Difference between past simple and past continuous

Student book pages 13- introduced new grammar (WHILE) and practiced grammar on the board with sentence creation and wordwall.

grammar practice here: https://www.cambridgeone.org/nlp/teacher/org_cup_bxE_6Y0H3ReVpj4m2xvuU/product/sm2edpe5/view/item/1608020486260%2F1608020538399%2F1608024387366

SB pages 14-15: We read together in groups and did the activties together.

WB 14 activities 1 and 2

Final Game of Jeopardy!

Homework Due Monday

Today we did grammar review: Past Continuous v.s Past simple

SB and WB page 12 – we listened to the song and sang, and did the activities with it.

Jeopardy – we played in teams of three, covered past continuous and past simple, also question formations and negatives.

Lightly began to introduce the second grammar point using the word „while“

Relearned the new Grammar: past continuous

Grammar Activities: Told stories about the weekend using new grammar, past continuous worksheet, Past continuous kahoot, and board work

Took test for Welcome Unit

Introduced new Unit, Unit 1- Disaster

Did some vocabulary games for the new words

Reviewed for TEST Monday 7.10

review games: Jeopardy, Kahoot, Sentence Creation, Vocabulary spelling

SB 8: Searched for past tense verbs, Read the story together, and completed the matching activities

WB 8: Activities 1 and 2

Grammar and Vocabulary review with Superminds book games

Checked homework

introduced new grammar: Simple past tense questions

Book Work: SB and WB page 7

Team sentence unscramble: https://www.liveworksheets.com/w/en/english-second-language-esl/1463635

wordwall: https://wordwall.net/pt/resource/37468882/english/past-simple-questions-and-negatives

Went outside to play games with the vocabulary

grammar review: We played Past tense bingo, Past tense wordwall, and Made sentences using simple past tense

Book work: SB 6 and WB 6- We sang together and filled in all activities

Games: We did Jeopardy in teams : https://jeopardylabs.com/play/simple-past-231

Homework: Workbook page 5 due next Monday!

review: went over what the students learned last week with Mr.Will.

vocabulary review: Had them teach me the words that they learned from Mr.Will. Did some spelling and memory games with the new words.

new grammar: began to introduce the new grammar on page 5 in students book (simple past tense)

grammar games: kahoot and story creation: What did you eat yesterday, what did you watch last week, etc.

Intro: We began class with a game called Scattegories where students have to come up with words that start with a certain letter and fit into categories.

New Unit: We introduced our new unit „The Science Lesson“ with some videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ASLLiuejAo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHnVVEqKmYA&t=268s

Notebooks: In our notebooks students became mad scientists and came up with an „invention“ to solve a problem they have:

Go Homeinator: Shoot yourself with the Go Homeinator and it instantly takes you home and puts you in your bed.


Unit 0 Vocab Words: We wrote down and practiced our Unit 0 Vocab: goggles, shelf, apron, explosion, bubbles, liquid, instructions, powder, test tube, gloves.

Students Book: We worked through Page 4 in the Yellow Book.

Poster: As a class we began finalizing our poster which will hang in the main hallway of the school.

First Day back

Introduction: I introduced myself to the students and they introduced themselves to me!

Games: played two truths and a lie to get to know each other better.

Poster: learned about our class mascot and coloured our animals for the poster.

Portfolio and rules: handed out portfolios and went over classroom rules.