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

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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

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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!