Grizzly Bears

Mixed Classes today.

Portfolio: Creating If sentences using this spinner.

SB story: Page 98 and 99 – In pairs we listened too the story and did activities 1-4. From activity 4 we did more riddles with the class.

Activity: Job bingos, we did played bingo with new job words and the old ones from the unit vocabulary. Students won points in ClassDojo.

Game: Today since we had mixed classes, we played Mafia with the whole class.

PAGES 94 AND 95 OF THE WOORKBBOK ARE ASSIGNED AS HOMEWORK FOR 05.05

Intro: Warmed up by practicing our words with a a game of Hotseat.

Notebooks: Students imagined they had a magic remote that could do anything they like. They wrote sentences about what it will do using our 1st Conditional Grammar.

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

New Grammar: Introduced our 1st Condtional Grammar Point: If + Subject + Verb, Subject + will + verb clause.
Example: If you’re warm, I’ll open a window.

Students Book: Worked through page 97 in the Students Books.

Intro: Warmed up our brain with a game of Scattegories.

Notebooks: Watched a video and had a class discussion about Jobs and Robots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-7Azih0D98

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

New Grammar: Introduced our 1st Condtional Grammar Point: If + Subject + Verb, Subject + will + verb clause.
Example: If you’re warm, I’ll open a window.

Students Book: Worked through page 95 in the Students Books.

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“.

Unit 7 Test: We reviewed for and wrote our Unit 7 Test.

OUR UNIT 7 TEST WILL BE ON FRIDAY 11.04

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

Notebooks: Students wrote and discussed what they think just happened based on a series of pictures.
Example: He has just won a championship.

Grammar Practice: Practiced our second grammar point of the Unit. Have/Has + JUST + 3rd Form. To talk about things that happened seconds ago.
Example: I have just dropped my keys.

Students Books: Worked through the Unit 7 story on pages 86 and 87, and the biography on page 93

Biography Project: Students wrote a biography about themselves from 100 years in the future:

HOMEWORK: Pages 84 Activities 1 and 2 and 85 are assigned as HW for Monday 07.04

Intro: We began class by warming up our brains with a game of Hotseat to practice our Unit Vocabulary.

Notebooks: Students wrote and discussed what they think just happened based on a series of pictures.
Example: He has just won a championship.

Grammar Practice: Practiced our second grammar point of the Unit. Have/Has + JUST + 3rd Form. To talk about things that happened seconds ago.
Example: I have just dropped my keys.

3rd Form Bingo: In order to practice 3rd Forms we played a bingo game.

Romeo and Juliet: As a class we put on a mini-play of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Students were assigned roles and read the story from a script.

Student’s Book: Worked through page 85 in the Students Book.

HOMEWORK: Pages 84 Activities 1 and 2 and 85 are assigned as HW for Monday 07.04

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

Notebooks: Students wrote and discussed how they would help a friend in different situations using our grammar: I’ll + Verb.

New Grammar: Introduced our second grammar point of the Unit. Have/Has + JUST + 3rd Form. To talk about things that happened seconds ago.
Example: I have just dropped my keys.

3rd Form Bingo: In order to practice 3rd Forms we played a bingo game.

Students Book: Worked through page 84 in the Students Book.

• HOMEWORK: Pages 82 and 83 are assigned as HW for Monday 31.03
  
  Intro: We began class by warming up our brains with a game of Scattegories
  
  Notebooks: Students wrote and discussed their favorite movies and TV series.
  
  
  
  New Unit: Introduced our new unit with a few videos about Shakespeare and Theatre.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocrgDc6W7Es
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXt6dtkRtLs
  
  Unit 7 Vocab Words: We introduced our new Unit 7 Vocabulary: lute, candles, mask, wig, costume, tights, actor, audience
  
  Students Books: We worked through Students Book Page 82.

OUR UNIT 6 TEST WILL BE ON FRIDAY 21.03

Intro: We began class by warming up our brains with a game of Hotseat to practice our Words.

Notebooks: We practiced our grammar with the following notebook activity:

New Grammar: We practiced our second grammar point of Unit 6: using „Could I …. please?“ and „Do you mind if I…?“ to ask and answer polite questions.

Example: „Could I borrow a pen please?“ „Of course!“
„Do you mind if I open the window?“ „Not at all!“

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

Test Review Game: We played a review game to practice for our Unit 6 Test.

Students Books: We worked through Students Book Page 74 and 75.

• OUR UNIT 6 TEST WILL BE ON FRIDAY 21.03
  
  Intro: We began class by warming up our brains with a game of Scattegories.
  
  Notebooks: We practiced writing our Unit 6 Vocabulary with an Unscramble activity.
  
  New Grammar: We introduced our second grammar point of Unit 6: using „Could I …. please?“ and „Do you mind if I…?“ to ask and answer polite questions.
  
  Example: „Could I borrow a pen please?“ „Of course!“
  „Do you mind if I open the window?“ „Not at all!“
  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 73

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.

Students Books: We worked through page 71 in our Students Books.

Much of the class is traveling on a school trip this week. This week we will practice our current grammar and unit vocabulary, but we will wait to introduce new material and homework until next week.

Intro: Played a series of English Language vocabulary games.

Notebooks: In our notebooks, students gave me 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.

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

Notebooks: In our notebooks, students wrote down cities they would like to visit and not visit and reasons why:

New Unit: We introduced our new unit with part of a short travel vlog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9FqjVHYqA4&t=223s

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

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

New Grammar: Introduced our 1st Grammar Point of the unit; using should to talk about recommendations, rules and advice

Students Books: We worked through page 70 in our Students Books.

Unit Test: We reviwed for and wrote our Unit 5 Test.

OUR UNIT 5 TEST WILL BE ON MONDAY 24.02

Intro: We began class with by sharing what we did over our breaks, and we also played a game of Scattegories to warm up our brains.

Notebooks: In our notebooks, we completed sentences to practice both our „made of“/“used for“ grammar and our apostrophe placement grammar.

Students Books: We worked through pages 62 and 63 in the Students Books

Superminds Story Read Aloud/Act Out: As a class, we read and acted our our Unit 5 Story. Students were assigned to be the role of our main characters, sheriff, robber, or reader. We used props and acted out our story together.

Page 61 of the Workbook is still Homework, to be checked on 19.02

OUR UNIT 5 TEST WILL BE ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH

Intro: We began class with by sharing what we did over our breaks, and we also played a game of Scattegories to warm up our brains.

Notebooks: In our notebooks, we did our last made of/used for guessing game. Students chose four of the objects and wrote two sentences to describe each object. They then read those sentences to a classmate for the classmate to guess the object.

Example: It’s made of metal. It’s used for flying around. What is it?
Answer: Helicopter

• • Unit 5 Vocab Words: We practiced our new Unit 5 Vocabulary: robbers, jail, wagon, sheriff, pistol, saddle, handcuffs, barrel, rope.
    
    New Unit 5 Grammar: Introduced our second grammar point of Unit 5: apsotrophes.
    In sentences where there is one object the apostrophe goes before the „s“
    Example:
    The sheriff’s badge is made of silver.
    In sentences where there are multiple objects the apostrophe goes after the „s“
    Example:
    The sheriffs‘ badges are made of silver.
    
    Students Books: We worked through page 61 in the Students Books

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

Page 61of the Workbook is assigned as Homework for Monday, 17.02

Intro: We began class with a game of Scattegories to Warm Up Our Brains.

Notebooks: In our notebooks, students saw a bunch of objects on a slide. They chose four of the objects and wrote two sentences to describe each object. They then read those sentences to a classmate for the classmate to guess the object.

Example: It’s made of plactic. It’s used for paying. What is it?
Credit Card

• Unit 5 Vocab Words: We practiced our new Unit 5 Vocabulary: robbers, jail, wagon, sheriff, pistol, saddle, handcuffs, barrel, rope.
  
  Unit 5 Grammar: Practiced our 1st Grammar Point of the unit; using made of and used for to describe items.
  Example:
  This bottle is made of glass.
  It’s used for drinking water.
  
  Country Western Music: We listened to our unit song, an American country western song. We then listened and talked about several examples of real life country music
  
  Students Books: We worked through page 60 in the Students Books

Page 58 and 59 of the Workbook are assigned as Homework for Monday, 03.02

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

Notebooks: In our notebooks, students imagined they could live in one of three historical time periods; Cowboy Times in the USA, Samurai Times in Japan, or Viking Times in Norway. They wrote which one they would rather live and three reasons why, and then we discussed as a class.

New Unit: We introduced our new unit with a short informative video.
https://youtu.be/Jq1J8DHgrJo

Unit 5 Vocab Words: We introduced our new Unit 5 Vocabulary: robbers, jail, wagon, sheriff, pistol, saddle, handcuffs, barrel, rope.

New Grammar: Introduced our 1st Grammar Point of the unit; using made of and used for to describe items.
Example:
This bottle is made of glass.
It’s used for drinking water.

Create and Outlaw: Students created a Wild West Outlaw. They came up with a backstory for their outlaw including:

Picture of Outlaw or Your Crime with 2 vocab words
Your Outlaw Name
A Description of your Outlaw (1 Sentence)
What was your crime? (2 Sentences)
What is the reward for your capture?

Students Books: We worked through page 58 and 59 in the Students Books

Unit 4 Test: We reviewed for and wrote our Unit 4 Test. Students absent for the test will take it on Monday 27.01.

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LEAP English Day Camp

August 4-8, 2025

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• OUR UNIT 4 TEST WILL BE ON FRIDAY 24.01
  
  Intro: We began class by warming up our brains with a game of Scattegories.
  
  Notebooks: In our notebooks, we completed sentences from our 0 Condtional grammar point. Students saw either the first part or the second part of the sentence and filled in the rest with their own answers.Example:
  If you press the button,…
  If you don’t study for the test,… 
  If _________________________, the teacher gets angry.
  If _________________________, my parents get angry.
  
  Unit 4 Vocab Words: We practiced our new Unit 4 Vocabulary: waiter, strawberries, biscuits, spoon, napkin, fork, knife, pepper, salt, chopsticks.
  
  New Grammar: Practiced our second grammar point of Unit 4; 0 Conditionals. We use this for rules and things that are always true. We played a board game where in order to stay on the space, students must form a conditional sentence.
  Example:
  If ice gets hot, it melts.
  If you press the button, the TV turns off.
  
  Unit Review: We played a few games to review our Unit 4 Vocab and Grammar before the test.
  
  Students Books: We worked through page 54 in the Students Books

Pages 49 in the Workbookis assigned as Homework for 20.01

OUR UNIT 4 TEST WILL BE ON FRIDAY 24th OF JANUARY

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

Notebooks: In our notebooks, we completed sentences from our 0 Condtional grammar point. Students saw either the first part or the second part of the sentence and filled in the rest with their own answers.

Example:
If you don’t eat,…
If you don’t study for the test,… 
If _________________________, the teacher gets angry.
If _________________________, my parents get angry.

Unit 4 Vocab Words: We practiced our new Unit 4 Vocabulary: waiter, strawberries, biscuits, spoon, napkin, fork, knife, pepper, salt, chopsticks.

New Grammar: Practiced our second grammar point of Unit 4; 0 Conditionals. We use this for rules and things that are always true. We played a board game where in order to stay on the space, students must form a conditional sentence.
Example:
If ice gets hot, it melts.
If you press the button, the TV turns off.

Unit Story: We read and listed to the Unit 4 story on page 50 and 51.

• Pages 49 in the Workbook is assigned as Homework for 20.01
  
  Intro: We began class by warming up our brains with a game of Scattegories.
  
  Notebooks: We made a plans for the year 2025. In their noterbooks, students chose four things they wanted to do in 2025 and four dates they would do those things on.
  Example:
  I want to celebrate my birthday on the 19th of January.
  I want to climb a mountain on the 23rd of April.
  I want to buy a Mercedes on the 7th of August.
  I want to visit Australia on the 14th of October.
  
  Unit 4 Vocab Words: We practiced our new Unit 4 Vocabulary: waiter, strawberries, biscuits, spoon, napkin, fork, knife, pepper, salt, chopsticks.
  
  New Grammar: Introduced our second grammar point of Unit 4; 0 Conditionals. We use this for rules and things that are always true.
  Example:
  If ice gets hot, it melts.
  If you press the button, the TV turns off.
  
  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: We watched a few short clips from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory about the fantastic foods that are in those movies.
  Chocolate River
  3 Course-Meal Chewing Gum
  Chocolate that makes you fly.
  We read about more of these in our Students Book on Page 51. Students then came up with their own Fantastic Food. They drew and wrote about it.
  
  Student’s Book: We worked through Page 49 and 51 in the Students Book
  
  

• • Pages 46 and 47 in the Workbook are assigned as Homework for 13.01
    
    Intro: We began class by playing a game of Timebomb (Hot Potato)
    
    Notebooks: We discussed what technology will be like in the future, and students imagined a peice of future technology they would like to have. We wrote about it in our notebooks; including:
    A Name
    2 Sentences about what it is and what it will do.
    A Small Picture
    
    Unit 4 Vocab Words: We practiced our new Unit 4 Vocabulary: waiter, strawberries, biscuits, spoon, napkin, fork, knife, pepper, salt, chopsticks.
    
    New Grammar: Introduced our first new grammar point of the unit Ordinal Numbers to talk about dates.
    Example: 01/05/25 in words is „First of May 2025“
    1 = first
    2= second
    3 = third
    etc.
    
    Student’s Book: We worked through Page 47 in the Students Book
    
    Calendar Activity: Using blank calendars; students invented their own month. They named the month and came up with three holidays they would like to celebrate in their month.
    Example:
    Willuary
    National Bicycle Day is on the 21st of Willuary
    National Video Game Day is on the 8th of Willuary
    National Movie Day is on the 14th of Willuary.

• Pages 46 and 47 in the Workbook are assigned as Homework for 13.01
  
  Intro: We began class by discussing what we did over the Christmas Holiday and also warming up our brains with a game of Scattegories.
  
  New Unit Intro: We introduced the our next unit by watching and talking about a video pradicting what the future will be like.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNv3mOR1QJQ&t=181s
  
  Notebooks: After watching our video, students wrote in their notebooks what they though the future would be like by following these prompts.
  I think the future will have _________ (technology)
  I think the future will have _________ (technology)
  I think the future will be _________ (adjective) Because…
  
  New Unit 4 Vocab Words: We introduced our new Unit 4 Vocabulary: waiter, strawberries, biscuits, spoon, napkin, fork, knife, pepper, salt, chopsticks.
  
  Student’s Book: We worked through Page 46 in the Students Book

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.

• OUR UNIT 3 TEST WILL BE ON WEDNESDAY 13.12.
  
  Intro: We began class with a game of Scattegories to warm up our brains
  
  Notebooks: In our notebooks we looked at silly photos and tried to answer the question: „What’s going to happen?“
  He/she is going to…
  They are going to…
  
  Unit 3 Vocab Words: We practiced our new Unit 3 Vocabulary: spotlight, backing singers, electric guitar, dancer, fans, bass guitar, stage, drum kit, bodyguards
  
  Review Game: We reviewed for our unit test with a Jeapordy and a Bamboozle game.
  
  Student’s Book: We worked through Page 38 and 39 in the Students Book. We read and listened to our unit story.

• • • Page 37 in the Workbook are assigned as Homework for 13.12
      
      Intro: We began class with a game of Hotseat to practice our words.
      
      Notebooks: In our notebooks we looked at different survival scenarios and wrote in our notebooks a plan to survive in those situations.
      I am going to…
      I am going to…
      I am going to…
      
      Unit 3 Vocab Words: We practiced our new Unit 3 Vocabulary: spotlight, backing singers, electric guitar, dancer, fans, bass guitar, stage, drum kit, bodyguards
      
      Music Genres: We dicussed and listened to music from four important genres: Orchestral, Jazz, Rock, and Hip Hop.
      
      Student’s Book: We worked through Page 42 in the Students Book

• Pages 36 (ONLY ACTIVITY 1) and 37 in the Workbook are assigned as Homework for 09.12
  
  Intro: We began class with a game of Scattegories to warm up our brain.
  
  Notebooks: In our notebooks we imagined we were going to have a perfect day where we could do whatever we want: we wrote down four sentences about our plan for this day.
  At quarter past nine, I am going to…
  At half past three, I am going to…
  At ten to seven I am going to…
  At quarter to ten I am going to…
  
  Unit 3 Vocab Words: We practiced our new Unit 3 Vocabulary: spotlight, backing singers, electric guitar, dancer, fans, bass guitar, stage, drum kit, bodyguards
  
  Survival Plan Activity: Students chose four items to bring with them from a sunken ship and had to make a plan using our grammar for how to survive a desert island.
  
  Student’s Book: We worked through Page 40 in the Students Book

• Pages 34 and 35 in the Workbook are assigned as Homework for 02.12
  
  Intro: We began class with a game of Timebomb to Practice Vocabulary
  
  Notebooks: In our notebooks we wrote down our future plans using going to
  What are you going to do…
  this afternoon?
  this weekend?
  next summer?
  when you grow up?
  
  Unit 3 Vocab Words: We practiced our new Unit 3 Vocabulary: spotlight, backing singers, electric guitar, dancer, fans, bass guitar, stage, drum kit, bodyguards
  
  New Grammar: We introduce our second grammar of the unit; using past and to to talk about the time.
  Example: It’s quarter past three. It’s twenty to eleven.
  
  Going to practice: We played a bamboozle game to practice our new grammar, students looked at pictures and say what they thought was going to happen.
  
  Student’s Book: We worked through Page 36 and 37 in the Students Book

• Pages 34 and 35 in the Workbook are assigned as Homework for 02.12
  
  Intro: We began class with a game of Scattegories to warm up our brains.
  
  New Unit Introduction: To introduce our new unit, we listened to a short clip of music from each of the following genres: Classical, Techno, Folk, Pop, Rock, Rock N Roll
  
  Notebooks: In our notebooks we wrote down our favorite music artisits and why we like them.
  
  Unit 3 Vocab Words: We introduced our new Unit 3 Vocabulary: spotlight, backing singers, electric guitar, dancer, fans, bass guitar, stage, drum kit, bodyguards
  
  New Grammar: We introduced our first grammar point of the unit. Using „going to“ to talk about future plans.
  
  Example: I am going to have a holiday in December.
  
  Build a Band: In small groups students came up with ideas and an album cover for a band. It included:
  What are you going to name your band?
• What type of music are you going to play?
• What are you going to name your album?
• How long will your tour be? (Months)
• Where are you going to perform? (Cities)
• What instrument are each of you going to play?
  
  Student’s Book: We worked through Page 34 and 35 in the Students Book

• Unit 2 Test: We reviewed for and wrote our Unit 2 Test.
  
  Students Absent on Friday will write the test on Monday, November 25th.

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.

PAGES 25 of the Workbook is assigned as Homework for 18.11

Intro: We began class by finishing and presenting our Ecosystem Projects.
Ecosystem Project: Students chose an ecosystem (Desert, Rainforest, Tundra, and Savanna) and researched the following questions about them:

Where are they?
What kind of plants are there?
What kinds of animals are there?
What is the climate (weather)?
2 Fun Facts

Hotseat: We played a game of hotseat to practice our Unit 2 Vocabulary.

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.

Notebooks: In our notebooks we wrote rules that our classmates would have to follow if certain numbers on a dice were rolled:
1: You have to sing the ABCs.

2: You have to compliment your partner.

3: You have to dance for 10 seconds.

4: You have to stand on one leg for 10 seconds

5: You have to do 5 push ups.

6: You have to spell a Vocab Word

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 25 in our Student’s Books.

PAGES 25 of the Workbook is assigned as Homework for 18.11

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

Notebooks: We looked at big numbers and practiced writing them as words in our notebook.
Example: 15,492 = fifteen thousand four hundred ninety two

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

Ecosystem Project: Students chose an ecosystem (Desert, Rainforest, Tundra, and Savanna) and researched the following questions about them:

Where are they?
What kind of plants are there?
What kinds of animals are there?
What is the climate (weather)?
2 Fun Facts

Student’s Book: We worked through Page 30 and 31 in our Student’s Books.

PAGES 22 and 23 of the Workbook are assigned as HW for 11.11

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

Notebooks: Students wrote and discussed wether they would have rather vist the African Savanna OR the Amazon Rainforest and 3 reasons why.

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

Student’s Book: We worked through Page 22 in our Student’s Books.

Halloween Party: We did some Halloween related activities and ate some candy.

• UNIT 1 TEST REVIEW: We reviewed for our Unit 1 Test in our notebooks.
  
  UNIT 1 TEST: We wrote our Unit 1 Test.
  
  Have a great fall break!

• OUR UNIT 1 TEST WILL BE ON THURSDAY OCTOBER 25th.
  
  Intro: We began class with a game of Scattegories to warm up.
  
  While Practice: Students would come to the front and act out actions at the same time for 10 seconds. When they finished the rest of the class would make a sentence.
  
  Example: While Tim was sleeping, Sara was flying a plane.
  
  Notebooks: In our notebooks we looked at two pictures and wrote sentences using While to describe what we saw.
  
  Example: While Spiderman was swinging, Cinderella was cleaning her house.
  
  Unit 1 Vocab Words: We practiced our new Unit 1 Vocabulary: smoke, volcano, temple, theatre, statue, vase, fountain, servant, columns, and horse and cart.
  
  Example: While John was reading a book, his sister was watching TV.
  
  Students Book: We worked through Page 14 and 15 in the Yellow Book.
  
  Unit Story Act Out: We practiced our lines and acted out our Unit Story in two groups.

PAGES 12 (Activity 1) and 13 of the Workbook are assigned as HW for 21.10

Intro: We began class with a game of Hotseat to practice our vocabulary.

Notebooks: In our notebooks we watched this video and wrote down 4 things Spongebob was doing. This helped practice our past continuous grammar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plfR2HEQuYQ

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

New Grammar: We introduced our second grammar point of the unit: Using „While“ to speak about two things happening at the same time in the past.

Example: While John was reading a book, his sister was watching TV.

Students Book: We worked through Page 13 in the Yellow Book.

End of Class Game: We ended class with a game of Mafia. Where students have to work together to find our who the „murderer“ is.

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: Students imagined that they had a time machine and could travel to either Dinsosaur Times, Roman Times, or the Future. They wrote which they would want to visit and three reasons why.
  
  New Unit: Introduced the new unit with a video and presentation on Natural Disasters.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9klE-iUxX0c
  
  New 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 10 in the Yellow Book.

We practiced for and wrote our Unit 0 Test.

Students will bring each test home after all students in the class have taken the test and all tests have been graded.

• • PAGES 6 (only activity 1) and 7 of the Workbook are assigned as HW for 04.10
    
    OUR UNIT 0 TEST WILL BE ON FRIDAY 04.10
    
    Intro: We began class with a game of Scattegories.
    
    Notebooks: Students pretended they were police officers questioning someone who stole something very valuable. They needed to ask the robber questions to find our more information.
  • Why do/did you…?
  • How do/did you…?
  • Where do you…?
  • What do you …?
  • Who do you…?
  • Did/Do you…?
    
    Unit 0 Vocab Words: We practiced our Unit 0 Vocab: goggles, shelf, apron, explosion, bubbles, liquid, instructions, powder, test tube, gloves.
    
    Question Practice: We played a game called Headbands to practice asking questions.

• PAGES 6 (only activity 1) and 7 of the Workbook are assigned as HW for 02.10
  
  Intro: We began class with a game of Timebomb to warm up.
  
  Notebooks: Students wrote down the name of a celebrity and then wrote four questions they would like to ask the celebrity using our question words. Then they pretended their classmates were the celebrity and interviewed them.
  
• Why do/did you…?
• How do/did you…?
• Where do you…?
• What do you …?
• Who do you…?
• Did/Do you…?
  
  Unit 0 Vocab Words: We practiced our Unit 0 Vocab: goggles, shelf, apron, explosion, bubbles, liquid, instructions, powder, test tube, gloves.
  
  Class Story: By looking at pictures in our Students Book students wrote down words they thought of when looking at the pictures. Then we assembled a story using those words.
  
  Students Book: We worked through Page 8 and 9 in the Yellow Book.

• PAGES 4 and 5 of the Workbook are assigned as HW for 27.09
  
  Intro: We began class with a game of Scattegories to warm up.
  
  Notebooks: Students imagined that yesterday was a perfect day and wrote 4 sentences about what they did on the perfect day:
  
• I got up at 9:30. 
• I drank a big cup of coffee.
• I went for a hike in the mountains.
• I played video games with my friends.
• I ate steak and potatoes for dinner.
  
  Unit 0 Vocab Words: We practiced our Unit 0 Vocab: goggles, shelf, apron, explosion, bubbles, liquid, instructions, powder, test tube, gloves.
  
  Students Book: We worked through Page 6 and 7 in the Yellow Book.

PAGES 4 and 5 of the Workbook are assigned as HW for 27.09

Intro: We began class with a game called Hotseat to practice our new vocabulary

Notebooks: Students imagined they were time travelers returning from a journey through the past. They wrote about their experiences using Past Tense Verbs:
In Dinosaur times I …
In Ancient times I …
In Medieval times I …

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

Students Book: We worked through Page 5 in the Yellow Book.

Poster: As a class we finished 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.

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.

Intro: I introduced myself to the class and gave some information about where I’m from and my hobbies.

Two Truths and a Lie: I gave three „facts“ about myself where one was not true and the students had to guess which „fact“ was untrue. The facts were:
I have been to China
I play the guitar.
I have a fake tooth.

Then the students made their own and as a class we guessed which fact was untrue for each student.

Notebooks: Students had time to write their name and decorate their notebooks.

Class Rules: We dicussed rules for our class and introduced a classroom management system called Class Dojo.

Class Mascot: We watched videos and answered questions about our class mascots:

Polar Bears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zRGzlWqce4

Grizzly Bears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTcbqzYIqpk

Class Poster: We began work on our class poster which will hang in the main hallway of the school.