Homework: I will assign the new homework on Wednesday. We checked last week’s assigned homework, Pages 4-6. The students have a good grasp of the Unit 0 vocabulary and their past tense usage is improving.
Warm Up: We shared about our weekends and played a „Categories“ variant called „Word Tennis“. Students said words beginning with „D“ back and forth and counted how long their streak could get. Our record was hard to say exactly but may have been as high as 45 in our group of 3.
Super Minds: We went through Page 7 of the book, completing Activities 1 and 2. It helped us practice our use of the past tense in a sentence. We also did Page 8 where students created their own story of a science experiment gone wrong using the pictures on the page. We then listened to the story up until the end of Page 8. What will happen to our Time Travelers?
Games: We played „Yesterday I…“. In this game students gather in a circle and pass a ball („Mr. Star“), from one student to the next. The first student says anything they did yesterday (can be made-up), like „Yesterday, I ate pizza“. The next student says what the previous student said and then adds another sentence. This chaining continues until the last student must repeat what everyone said! It’s a good way to practice past tense.
We also played a vocab-review game, „Rock, Paper, Scissors“, that the students had played before. The student were so quick saying the words that I had to make sure they were really saying the words!
Class Dojo: Students earned points for being quick to be ready with their books, speaking English, raising their hand, and having the longest chain of „D“ words in Word Tennis.
Reward: We played Bowling mode in Baamboozle. We played a difficult animal quiz. Did you know lobsters had 10 legs if you include their claws? I didn’t.