Cycle 3 November 24th

Some groups finish their oral presentations, other are starting them soon.

We will also watch Home Alone 1 with a short listening comprehension.

We practise some grammar and read a story taken from this book:

The 7 Habits of Happy Kids

Cycle 2 November 24th

We are starting to write Christmas Cards.

We will play games, all related to Christmas and the writing competency for a few classes.

We will also sing a few songs.

Little Snowflake

Jingle Bells







The students also need to
1. Watch TV
2. Listen to the music
3. Play video games

in English of course.

Cycle 1 November 24th

I will post everything I want to cover with the grades 1 and 2 before Christmas but don't be surprise if your child did not cover some parts yet. Depending on the groups I cover faster some parts.

Prepositions (6 positional words)

IN   ON   UNDER   IN FRONT OF   NEXT TO   BEHIND

Santa, where are you?

Prepositions (6 positional words)

IN FRONT OF   UNDER   ON TOP OF   BEHIND   NEXT TO   INSIDE

The Wheels on the Bus (Pete the Cat)

The Wheels on the Bus

Their favourite song these days (One of my favourite too!)

Little Snowflake

And of course we are also practising colours and school supplies, always :)

I will also soon give them a yellow sheet with important functional language to use in the classroom.
I am evaluating they communication in English during the second semestre. If students participate, sing the songs, repeat the words in class, use the yellow sheet in class, practise the vocabulary at home to use it in class, they should get a very good grade on this competency.

Homework

Students are still asked to do their other homework:

1. Watch TV

2. Listen to the music

3. Play video games

Always in English of course!

Cycle 2 (grades 3 & 4) 1st week of November

picture: http://www.moneymagpie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/november.png

Sorry I have not posted anything in the last weeks, October was very busy!

We looked at Halloween Vocabulary (a black cat, a witch, trick-or-treat, a mummy, a skeleton, etc.) and we also watched many Halloween Songs. We practiced our listening comprehension with this amazing website:

Super Simple Learning

One that we liked: Who Took the Candy? Song

Who Took the Candy? Worksheet

We will now begin a new theme on Classroom Vocabulary and we will learn positional words (prepositions) such as under, between, on, around, etc.

To practice Classroom Vocabulary seen in class I'm adding the link to an amazing website to practice vocabulary. It's the fisrt cycle's list, but the second cycle is a bit longer because I added plurals (I will put the longer version soon).

Classroom Vocabulary List

Have a great November!

Cycle 1 (grades 1 & 2) 1st week of November

picture: http://www.moneymagpie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/november.png 

First of all, sorry for not posting in the last few weeks, October was very busy!

To sum up what we did, I would say to we reviewed the alphabet + colours and practiced the ''5 Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate''. We had to put the story back in order. We also had to match the text with the pictures.

To review the alphabet, I'm reposting the song we sing in class.

ABCs

For November, we just started a new theme on Classroom Vocabulary.
Here is a short video we watched and sang in class (thanks to a colleague for sharing it wih me).

School Song

I also found a great website for studying vocabulary. I just made the list of words we have seen in class.

Try it out here: Study Classroom Vocabulary

I also showed them a song I would like them to learn before Christmas Holidays about a little snowflake falling from the sky. Little Snowflake

Coming:

- Prepositions
- The Wheels on the Bus - Pete the Cat

Homework:

I ask students to :

1. Watch English TV (or videos found on the Net)
2. Listen to English Music
3. Play English Video Games.

They can choose 1, 2 or 3.

Have a great November!

Interesting websites

1. Especially for younger students, a website with online storytime (books read by authors).
The selction of books is great (most books I love!)

Online Storytime

2. Website from British Council where kids can learn and play games too. They also get a chance to listen to different accents. *You can also change the language if you find it easier to navigate in another language than English.

British Council Website

3. Full of English Fun Games + Great videos to review notions or to learn new ones (from easy to difficult)

ESL Games Plus

4. Fun Lessons and Games for Kids (easy to understand the lessons)

FreddiesVille

5. Another amazing website for read-aloud stories with so many books (you have to log in but it's free) from easy to difficult levels. You also have vocabulary to go with the ebook and activities!

Oxford Owl (UK)

More to come, someday...

November 4th update:
Here's another ESL teacher's website full of more interesting websites for you to explore:
More Websites

Cycle 3 (grades 5 & 6) 1st Week of October

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We have short evaluations and students will write a text describing a picture they bring to class (next week).

The text will end the ''Let's Describe Project''.

Cycle 2 (grades 3 & 4) 1st week of October

This week, students do their tests on Numbers, Colours, Days o the Week, and Months of the Year.

Coming Up:

Halloween Song (on the tune of Mary Had a Little Lamb)
Halloween Vocabulary
Halloween Activities

Cycle 1 (grades 1 & 2) 1st week of October

This week, students do their tests on colours.

On google images, you can find colouring sheets if you type in Color by numbers

Google Color by Numbers

Coming up next week:

5 Little Pumpkins (song/video)

I will also read them the book:

Vocabulary to be seen
-Numbers (ordinals)
-Pumpkins, Witches, Sitting, Gate, Late, Air, Scary, Run, Fun, Wind, Light, Rolling

Here are extra videos on Halloween if you want to watch some with your child
Knock Knock, Trick Or Treat, Who are you?
Five Creepy Spiders
Can You Make A Happy Face
Go Away!
Halloween Numbers Song

and many more!

Cycle 1 (grades 1 & 2) 3rd week of September

ABC song (sing)
The Rainbow Colors Song (sing and dance)

Traces of evaluation of Competency 1: To act on understanding of texts
- Flashcards on the board and I ask students: ''Go touch Purple and Yellow''

Test on colours coming up (not next week, but the week after).

We will also begin a Halloween Theme very soon.

If you want your kid to practice, here are some links from a fun website I like:

Colors Memory Game

Extra
Here are links to short videos on colors:

What color is this?
What's your favorite color? Dialogue
Colors are adjectives

Cycle 3 (grades 5 & 6) 3rd Week of September

We begin the ''Let's Describe Project''


We look at important verbs (To Be, To Have, To Be Wearing) to use while describing.

We also begin to look at clothing vocabulary.

I ask students to begin thinking of someone they would like to describe (clothing, body parts, using adjectives) because they will have to bring a picture to class and write a text describing the person.

Later on, they will have to do an oral presentation (fashion show-like). They will be 2x2 and they will have to describe their friend to the rest of the class.

The 3 competencies will all be evaluated throughout the project (but focus will be put on Competency 2 since this one is graded on the first report card).

Competency 1: To interact orally
Competency 2: To reinvest understanding of oral and written texts
Competenty 3: To write texts

Coming: Clothing, Adjectives, Body Parts to have enough resources for writting their text.

Cycle 2 (grades 3 & 4) 3rd week of September

We continue learning the days of the week and the months of the year.
More songs to practice:
Months of the year
Days of the week


I read ''Go Away Big Green Monster''

Read Aloud ''Go Away Big Green Monster''

Coming next week:

Activities with the book (create your own monster/your own story).
Finish days of the week and months of the year (and prepare for a little test on the subject coming in October)

Cycle 3 (grades 5 & 6), 2nd week of September

1. Short presentations (traces of evaluation on pronunciation)

2. How to talk/write about weather.

3. Package of sheets (review of Days, Months, Seasons, Weather, Holidays)

Coming: Continue weather + finish package of sheets

Cycle 1 (grades 1 & 2), 2nd week of September

1. Review ABC
2. Let's learn colours

Movements with rainbow song (I know pink isn't a rainbow colour but I really like this song :) )

The Rainbow Colors Song

3. Read-Aloud (by me):

A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni

A Color of His Own

4. Handouts on Colours (to be continued next class)

Coming: Colours again

Cycle 3 (grades 5 & 6), 1st week of September

1. Review numbers, days of the week, months of the year and how to write the date.

Date:

Today is Monday, September 8, 2014.

Today is (day of the week with capital letter), (monthe of the year with capital letter) number, year.

2. Short self-presentation (I am... My address... etc.)

Coming:

Continue presentations + review weather and seasons.

Cycle 2 (grades 3 & 4), 1st week of September

Review the Alphabet and Numbers

Let's learn the days of the week:

7 Days in a Week Rap




Coming:
12 Months of the Year

12 Months in a Year

Cycle 1 (grades 1 & 2), 1st week of September

Pete the Cat (book)
Book ''Trailer''
Pete the Cat - Rocking in My School Shoes (read by Eric Litwin)

ABC (song)

(I'm adding a link of a more standard version ABC muffin song, but feel free to explore youtube.com and find rock, rap and other versions depending on your child's preferences e.g. Alphabet Song)









http://lovethoseletters.wikispaces.com/Black+and+White+ABC+Chart

New Schoolyear (2014-2015)

Chers élèves et chers parents de l'école Eymard et de l'école Desjardins,

Je voulais vous dire bonjour et vous dire que je me sens très choyée d'avoir vos enfants quelques heures par cycle pour les aider à s'avancer dans la maîtrise de l'anglais et surtout pour leur partager ma passion pour cette langue.

J'en suis à ma 2e année en enseignement et j'avais le goût d'essayer de tenir un blog (tout un défi car je sais que ça demande beaucoup de temps). Comme je ne donne pas trop de devoirs/leçons à faire à la maison, je me suis dit que ce serait un bon moyen pour les élèves (et les parents) d'avoir un aperçu de ce que nous faisons en classe.

Pour ceux qui en ont envie, je vais parfois mettre des liens (surtout pour les chansons, les livres, des jeux, etc.) alors n'hésitez pas à aller faire un tour sur les sites et d'en parler avec vos enfants.

Ce blog ne sera pas parfait mais je vais faire de mon mieux pour le mettre à jour le plus souvent possible.

Merci,

Mrs. Gabby

Why a blog? Pourquoi un blog?

Tout simplement parce que j'avais le goût d'utiliser un moyen efficace pour partager des informations avec les élèves, les parents et les collègues. Ce sera la principale fonction de ce blog pour l'instant, mais je suis certaine qu'un jour il servira à bien plus!

À bientôt,

Mrs. Gabrielle

Simply because I wanted to use an efficient way to share information with students, parents and colleagues. This will be the main purpose of the blog for now but I am sure I will eventually use it a lot more!

See you soon,

Mrs. Gabrielle 

Here's a little Dr. Seuss Quote because I love him and beause I love my students.