Blue Whales

Class Dojo
We received Class Dojo points for coming to class      Prepared      and ready for the lesson

Homework
A reminder that homework is set for next week, pages 38 and 39 of the Workbook, due next Monday, 15th December.

Warm up
We warmed up our brains and got into English mode with a game of Scattergories

Unit review
We reviewed the Unit 3 flashcards, grammar and vocabulary

Test
We did the unit 3 test

Warm down
We warmed down with a game of guessing which animal was in the picture

Class Dojo
We received Class Dojo points for coming to class     Prepared     and ready for the lesson

Homework
Homework is set for next week, pages 38 and 39 of the Workbook, due in next Monday, 15th December.

Unit 3 test
A reminder that the Unit 3 test will be in the next lesson this week.

Warm up
We warmed up our brains and got into English mode with a game of Scattegories

Flashcards
We played Around the world with the unit 3 flashcards to keep them fresh in our minds

Portfolios
We wrote about what would make a perfect day in our portfolios. Using the times given on the clocks, we wrote about what we will be going to do at that time on a perfect day.

Time worksheet
We worked through a worksheet, telling the time in English

Student’s Book
We worked through page 42 of the Student’s Book, and then warmed down with a game of Mafia

Class Dojo
We received Class Dojo points for coming to class     Prepared     and ready for the lesson

Homework
A reminder of homework. Pages 36 and 37 of the Workbook, due in next Monday, 8th December.

Flashcards
We reviewed our unit 2 vocabulary with a flashcard game of Round the World

Christmas Discussion
We had a discussion comparing Christmas time in the Czech Republic with Christmas time in the UK

Portfolios
In our portfolios we wrote 5 things that we would like to get for Christmas, and then we questioned each other to guess what they were. Some interesting gift wishes!!

Student’s Book
We did pages 40 and 41 of the Student’s Book

Warm Down
We warmed down with a game of scattegories

Class Dojo
We received Class Dojo points for coming to class     Prepared     and ready for the lesson

Homework
Homework was set . Pages 36 and 37 of the Workbook, due in next Monday, 8th December.

Flashcards
We reviewed our unit 2 vocabulary with a flashcard game of Round the World

Going to
We watched a youtube video on the use of ‚Going to‘. https://youtu.be/U8L2m8TeIWA?si=qrozB2D5M5WUfFMi

Portfolios
We discussed the use of ‚going to‘ and wrote in our portfolios what we will be doing in the future

Student’s Book
We completed pages 38 and 39 of the Student’s Book

Warm down
We warmed down with a quick game of Scattegories

Class Dojo
We received Class Dojo points for coming to class     Prepared     and ready for the lesson.

Flashcards
We reviewed our unit 2 vocabulary with a flashcard game of Round the World

Portfolios
We watched a video of Chuck Berry https://youtu.be/aKCt8ssC7cs?si=56uyk9u8a6I6krZM and discussed whether we liked the music, then wrote in our portfolios about what our band would be like

Student’s Book
We completed pages 36 and 37 of the Student’s Book

Worksheet
We did a worksheet on the use of ‚Going to‘

Warm down
We had a discussion about Christmas traditions in differebt countries, and warmed down with a game of scattergories

Class Dojo
We received Class Dojo points for coming to class    Prepared    and ready for the lesson.

Homework
Homework was set. Page 34 and 35 of the Workbook, due in next Monday, December 1st

Flashcards
We learnt the Unit 3 vocabulary from the flashcards and the audio in the Student’s Book

Musical taste
We watched a video showing different kinds of music, and discussed which one was our favourite
https://youtu.be/7uxF9CsxW88?si=S5tzhb8g_c7Ck6to

Portfolios
We wrote which is our favourite type of music and why it is in our Portfolios

Student’s Book
We did pages 34 and 35 of the Student’s Book

Warm Down
We warmed down with a game of Scattegories

Class Dojo
We received Class Dojo points for coming to class    Prepared    and ready for the lesson.

Warm up
We warmed up with a game of scattegories

Flashcards
We reviewed the Flashcards for the Unit 2 test with a game of fly swatter

Portfolios
We reviewed have to/don’t have to in our portfolios

Big numbers
We revised big numbers, writing them on the board and saying them all together

Test
We did the unit 2 test

Class Dojo
We received Class Dojo points for coming to class   Prepared   and ready for the lesson.

Test
Unit 2 test will be on Wednesday 19th November.

Flashcards
We revised the unit 2 flashcards with a game of Duel.

Portfolios
We decided on 4 chores that we have to do at home and wrote about them in our portfolios.

Rainforest quiz
We answered questions about the animals and plants in the rainforest

Big numbers
We went over how to form and say the big numbers that come from somewhere as big as a rainforest, tens, hundreds, thousands, millions !!

Had to/Didn’t have to
We did a worksheet on the use of had to/didn’t have to

Rainforest collage
We all drew a picture on the white board from the rainforest vocabulary that we have been learning

Class Dojo
We received Class Dojo points for coming to class  Prepared  and ready for the lesson

Warm up
We warmed up our brains and got into English with a game of Mafia

Portfolios
In out portfolios we wrote about whether we would rather visit the Savannah or the Rainforest, and gave 3 reasons why.

Student’s Book
We reviewed the story of the time travelling kids so far, then we carried on reading the story on pages 26 and 27 of the Student’s Book

Flashcards
We played a game of duel to refresh our memories of the Unit 2 Flashcards

Class Dojo
We received Class Dojo points for coming to class  Prepared  and ready for the lesson

Homework
A reminder that pages 22 and 23 of the Workbook have been set for homework, due in next Monday

Grammar review
We reviewed the grammar of ‚I was verb +ing‘, ‚we were verb+ing‘ and redid that section of the test from last week

Rainforest Mind Map
We thought up Rainforest vocabulary, and did a Rainforest mind map on the white board together, then wrote it into our portfolios

Student’s Book
We did pages 24 and 25 of the Student’s Book

Rainforest game
In pairs we made a game which had a rainforest animal as it’s main character, and presented it to the rest of the class

Class Dojo
We received Class Dojo points for coming to class  Prepared  and ready for the lesson

Homework
Homework is assigned, pages 22 and 23 of the Workbook, due in next Monday, 10th November

Flashcards
We learnt the names of the new Unit 2 flashcards

Rainforest maps
We looked at a map of the where the Amazon rainforest is in South America, and a map that compares the size of the rainforest to the size of Czechia

Portfolios
We watched a video full of interesting facts about the rainforest, and answered questions about it in our portfolios
https://youtu.be/1BGcT1gnDSQ?si=jaGRGIF13BanjEH4

Student’s Book
We did pages 22 and 23 of the Student’s Book

Big number slides
We did a quiz about big numbers…..

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10YGP57_17U8dWMjlzxvKi9PxhGEdeHSZ/edit?slide=id.p1#slide=id.p1

Class Dojo
We received Class Dojo points for coming to class Prepared and ready for the lesson

Tense relay
We divided in to 2 teams to do the theme of the lesson, writing the best Halloween story. We warmed up by playing a game of tense relay, racing to do a fill in the gaps exercise.

Idioms
We learnt some idioms to put into our story, then played a game in our teams to see who could remember the idioms the best.

1. Ghost town	A deserted, quiet place.
2. Scared stiff	To be completely paralyzed by fear.
3. Skeletons in the closet	A shameful secret from the past.
4. Dig one’s own grave	To do something that will cause big problems later.
5. Night owl	A person who stays up late at night.
6. Over my dead body	To absolutely refuse something.
7. Make one’s blood run cold	To terrify or horrify someone.

Halloween Story
In our teams we wrote our Halloween story, containing as many of the idioms we had learnt as possible.

Test Day! today we did some reviewed and took the Unit 1 test. In the time remaining we played Mafia as a mixed class.

Students did very well:)

Unit test
No homework set this week because the Unit 1 test will be next Monday

Class Dojo
We received Class Dojo points for coming to class Prepared and ready for the lesson

Warm Up
We warmed up our brains and practiced our Unit 1 vocabulary by playing wordsearch on Wordwall https://wordwall.net/resource/5185918/english/disaster

Portfolios
We practiced using ‚While‘ in our portfolios https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fICgCNCc-lsGer2vilG-N_h3iror8DC5rkunBlPqhFc/edit?tab=t.0

Flashcard game
We practiced Unit 1 vocabulary with a game of fly swatter

Workbook
We did Page 13 and 14 from our Workbooks

Unit test
No homework set this week because the Unit 1 test will be next Monday

Class Dojo
We received Class Dojo points for coming to class Prepared and ready for the lesson

Warm Up
We warmed up our brains and got into English by playing Meet in the middle (rock/paper scissors) with the Flashcards from Unit 1 in 2 teams.

Portfolios
We learnt about the word ‚While‘ by forming sentences using what we were doing at 3 pm yesterday afternoon.

We formed sentences from slides.
While Tim was watching television, Sarah was playing football

Student’s Book
We read and listened to the story on Page 14, and completed the exercises

Workbook
We completed Pages 12 and 13 of the Workbook

Warm down
We played scattegories in our groups

Class Dojo
We received Class Dojo points for coming to class Prepared and ready for the lesson

Warm Up
We warmed up our brains and got into English by playing Duel with the Flashcards from Unit 1 in 2 teams.

Portfolios
We did exercises describing what we would do if there was a natural disaster in Prague.

Video
We watched a video about volcanoes, and how they are formed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jxeh-yAXek

Workbook
We did pages 10 and 11 of the Workbook

Class Dojo
We received Class Dojo points for coming to class Prepared and ready for the lesson

Homework
Student’s Book, page 13 due Monday 13th October

Student of the month
The student of the month award was awarded for September

Warm Up
We warmed up our brains and got into English by playing Scattegories in 2 teams

Portfolios
We did exercises describing what we would do if we could time travel to a different time, we had some very interesting answers https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ufxT6ilNlkaDTgDY4aYfbUYsH4NH5PdX/edit?slide=id.p1#slide=id.p1

Unit 1 Vocabulary
We started to learn the Unit 1 vocabulary on Page 10 of the Student’s Book

Student’s Book
We completed pages 10, 11 and 12 of the Student’s Book

Warm Down
We warmed down with a flashcard game to make sure that we keep the new vocabulary in our minds

Class dojo
We received Class Dojo points for working hard and speaking English during the lesson

Warm up
We warmed up practising the Unit 0 flashcard vocabulary, past tenses , and question forms

Test
The students who missed the test on Monday did their tests

Portfolios
We looked at slides about historical eras, and wrote about what we would have done if we had travelled back to that time. We wrote about how our perfect day would be.

Classroom Inventions
We finished our classroom inventions that we started last week, things to help us with our school day. We then did a short presentation of our invention to the rest of the class

Super Minds
We finished pages 8-9 of our workbooks

Tests handed back
We received our test results and our test papers, which we took home

Class dojo
We received class dojo points for coming to class Prepared and ready for the test

Warm up
We warmed up our brains ready for the test by reviewing the Unit 0 vocabulary on the flashcards. We practised question forms and practised making true/false statements.

Portfolios
We practised forming the past tense of verbs in our portfolios, taking the base form of the verb, and writing the past tense down.

Test
We did the Unit 0 test.

Books
Some of us picked books from the library to take home and do book reports on, they will be due back to the library in 2 weeks.

Irregular verb worksheet
We received a worksheet on irregular verbs to work on at home when we want to do some practise with them.

Warm down
We played Mafia to warm down at the end of the lesson after the hard work we had done on the test.

Unit 0 test will be on Monday 29.9
No homework before then

Class dojo.
Students received points for coming to the lesson Prepared with their Super Minds textbooks, and for Working hard and Speaking English.

Warm up
We played Wordwall spin the wheel game https://wordwall.net/resource/97960797/sm5-practice-2 and Past Tense bingo to practice the tenses will we need to know for the test.

Portfolio
We did a fill in the gap exercise to practice our unit vocabulary for Monday’s test.
We recommend the students review this again at home as there will be an almost identical activity on the Test.

Super Minds
We completed page 7 of the Student’s book, and the Workbook, and read the story on page 8 of the Student’s book. If a student was absent, please make sure that they complete the pages by the next week

Homework: Please scratch off the Activation Codes in Both the Student’s Book and Workbook and register both books on the Cambridge One Platform. We will be checking that the codes have been scratched off during the next class. 

Please do Activity number 2 on page 6 of the Workbook to check that you know where to find the audio resources on Cambridge One.

Unit 0 Test will be on Monday 29.9

Class Dojo: At the start of class, students receive Class Dojo points for coming Prepared with their Super Minds textbooks, for having done their Homework, and for any Book Reports they have done. At the end of class students receive further points for Working hard and Speaking English. 

Warm Up: Wordwall to practice irregular past tense.

We recommend the students play this at home as these are the verbs they will need to know for the Test

We also played a round of Around the World with irregular past tense flashcards.

Portfolio: Gap fill exercise to further practice irregular past tense.

We recommend the students review this again at home as there will be an almost identical activity on the Test.

Unit 0 Vocabulary review: We reviewed our Unit vocabulary using the Super Minds online flashcard resources. Students have access to these flashcards at home as well on Cambridge One (under Learner Resources), so we recommend they review and make sure they can spell all Unit vocabulary.

Super Minds: We made sure all students have completed pages 4-6 in both the Student’s Book and Workbook. If a student was absent, please make sure they complete these pages by the next class. If a student did not complete all exercises on pages 4-6 in SB and WB, please make sure they do by the next class. We will begin page 7 in SB and WB next class.

Class Poster: We finished our Class Poster and are looking forward to showing it off in our hallway soon.

Scientific Invention: Students worked alone or in pairs to create their own invention which would make their school life easier. We will finish and present during the next lesson. 

Closing: We played irregular past tense word dominoes and a game of flashcard duel.

Homework

Student’s book, page 6 due Monday 22nd

Warm Up

We made 2 teams and we played Taboo to warm up our English brains, using our unit 0 flashcards and practising our new vocabulary : goggles, shelf, apron, explosion, bubbles, liquid, instructions, test tube, powder, and gloves

Student’s Book

We completed pages 4 and 5 of the Student’s book, learning about the science lesson vocabulary and doing a logic puzzle, finding out which lessons certain kids had been to from the clues on the page.

Workbook

We did page 4, and started page 5 of the Workbook

Warm down

We finished the lesson by playing a game of werewolf, a game that practices vocabulary

Homework was set…page 6 of Super Minds by next Monday.
We chose new class dojos categories, and scores.
We played scattegories to get into English.
We chose a song to use during break time during this unit.
We started our Super Minds books, and did page 4.
We carried on with our class poster.

We entered the class to the sound of whale song, we were going to learn all about our mascot.
We did a mind map of the things we know about Blue Whales, then we played a game of word chain using words to do with whales and the sea.
We watched a video all about Blue Whales and found out lots of new facts about them.
We started out class poster.

We started by learning about our new teacher, Mr Nick, finding out where he comes from, which is Wales, in the UK.
We received our new textbooks and portfolios, wrote our names on them, and started to decorate the covers.
We played 2 truths and a dream to learn more about our classmates and then filled
in ‘All about me’ worksheets.
We had a class discussion about the importance of rules, and came up with a list of
class rules which we wrote in our portfolios.
We taught Mr Nick the rules of ‘Werewolf’ and ‘Mafia’, and played a few rounds of
the game.
Finally, we thought about one thing we had learnt or enjoyed in our class today.