Cheetahs

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 and Test Review

Took Unit 7 test! Students did super well.

Played game after 🙂

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.

Portfolio: Grammar Math, contractions practice

Vocab practice: played Cowboy standoff and Battle Arena with unit 4-6 vocabulary

SB: 84, listened to the song and did activity 1. Did karaoke from the book then Karaoke in teams and WB 84: activity 1 and 2. Did rhyming game.

SB 85: New grammar, did activity 1 and played charades using the new Grammar; „he’s/she’s just…“

grammar activity: Watched one episode of Peppa Pig, students wrote 10 sentences during the video using the new grammar to desrcribe what Peppa had just done in the show.

Game: Heads up on iphone.

homework: WB 82 and 83

Portfolio: Talked about the theatre

New unit: Began unit 7, new vocabulary, page 82 activity 1

Vocab: Chinese Whisper

New Grammar: Began new grammar, talking about contractions and future will.

Took unit 6 test !

TEST RESCHEDULED TO NEXT WEEK

today we played grammar baamboozle and learned a new game 🙂

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: introduced giving advice using should and shouldn’t

discussion: advice wheel , students gave me advice, we talked about different ways to handle situations!

SB and WB: dialogues in page 72, did activities then worked in pairs.

activity: played city guesser, we have begun to talk about cities, capitals, and countries and this is a fun game to talk about that!

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 super well on their tests!

test on Friday!

Portfolio: Possessive apostraophe

New Grammar: Introduced Possessive Apostrophe . „Grab Bruno’s pencil case, Touch Adri’s Chair“ etc

SB 61: New Grammar activities , 1 and 2

practice activity: https://wordwall.net/resource/31571256/english/possessive-apostrophe-quiz

SB 62: Story, listen to the reading and did activities 1-4 in partners.

Grizzly bears and Cheetahs Combined

portfolio: Sentence Unscramble

Review: Did worksheet from the textbook in pairs

Activities : vocabulary Cowboy standoff, Chinese whisper, Grammar Baamboozle, and one Karaoke

Portfolio: Spelling Review

SB: New grammar and Song, did the activity then sang the song as a class.

Grammar Activity: Touch something make of ______. Etc, students ran around the room to find various materials.

WB: Did Matching activitiy to the SB song.

Activities: We did Karoke of country music. We went through many years of country music, from 50s until now! Talked about what we like, and what we don’t. Students showed me some music they like as well.

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 video.

Merry Christmas and see you in the new year!

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

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.

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.

UNIT 2 TEST WILL BE ON FRIDAY 22.11

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 practiced 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.

SB 25-26 Story: Read together, talked about the past, present, and future. Went over new words from the text: Spear, Penknife, Cheif, and past tense verbs.

Video: Watched a video on Indigenous people living in the Amazon rainforest. Had good conversation on the differences of their lives to ours, using the new grammar ‚Have to/has to“

WB 25: Activity 1 and 3

Game: played Bamboozle using have to/has too

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

Grammar: Introduced new grammar, big numbers, thousands, millions, etc

games: Guessing game: What is the popolation of prague? How many KFC’s are in Prague? Using our new knowledge of numbers to guess.

SB 23 and WB 23

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.

Mixed Classes with Mr.Will’s 5.A

introduced new unit and the vocabulary.

Watched videos on the animals, had a spelling bee, acted out the animals, and played jeopardy. Also did wordsearch with new vocab!

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“

Assigned homework pages 10 and 11 in workbook

Introduced new grammar: Past Continuous

grammar activities: Using past continuous with partner and past continuous worksheet

games: Kahoot

SB page 11 activities 1 and 2

PAGES 10 and 11 of the Workbook are assigned as HW for 14.10

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

Notebooks: We watched videos about natural disasters and in our notbeooks we came up with a survival plan for what we would do if a disaster came to Prague.

Unit 1 Vocab Words: We introduced our new Unit 1 Vocabulary: smoke, volcano, temple, theatre, statue, vase, fountain, servant, columns, and horse and cart.

Students Book: We worked through Page 16 in the Yellow Book.

Natural Disaster Project: In groups students did research on different natural disasters and presented that information to the class. They researched the following questions.
Needs to Include:
What are they?
How do they happen?
When and Where can they happen?
What can it do to a place?
How can we be safe in one?
2 Fun Facts
A Color Picture

PAGES 10 and 11 of the Workbook are assigned as HW for 14.10

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

Notebooks: We watched videos about natural disasters and in our notbeooks we came up with a survival plan for what we would do if a disaster came to Prague.

Unit 1 Vocab Words: We introduced our new Unit 1 Vocabulary: smoke, volcano, temple, theatre, statue, vase, fountain, servant, columns, and horse and cart.

Students Book: We worked through Page 16 in the Yellow Book.

Natural Disaster Project: In groups students did research on different natural disasters and presented that information to the class. They researched the following questions.
Needs to Include:
What are they?
How do they happen?
When and Where can they happen?
What can it do to a place?
How can we be safe in one?
2 Fun Facts
A Color Picture

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.

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.

Notebooks: In our notebooks students wrote past tense sentences about what they did this past summer:

I went to…
I saw…
I did…

Textbook Scavenger Hunt: Students worked in groups and opened their textbooks to try and find various things on a list.

1. 4 Unit Titles
2. 3 Character Names
3. 3 Big Questions + (page #)
4. 2 Think and Learn Titles + (page #)
5. 1 Superfact + (page #)
6. 1 Country Flag + (page #)
7. 1 Unit Song + (page #)
   
   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.