Hi, this is to wish you all a wonderful vacation. And of course,

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

In our last class children sang the Christmas song they had been learning the last weeks. 

Very Good Job, everyone¡

I want to highlight Sergio´s performance because he knew the lyrics perfectly well and besides, he can sing really well. He did deserve to be the winner of the Olympic Games, although there were other students whose work is remarkable. 

All in all I´m really happy with this group, I think they are learning a lot and they are very active and enthusiastic. 

See you in January 2014.

Hi parents¡

This is a summary of the vocabulary and types of sentences your children studied during this term.

Vocabulary: 

NOUNS

Numbers from 1 to 100.

Toys: Bike, kite, doll, camera, computer, game, lorry, board game.

Classroom objects: Chairs, pictures, pencils, scissors, glue sticks, books, folders, sheets of paper, markers, crayons.

Animals: Horses, cows, sheep, elephants, monkeys, fish, birds, rabbits,

Team sports: football, basketball, rugby, volleyball, baseball, cricket, handball.

Clothes: dress, skirt, trousers, jeans, shirt, T-shirt, socks, shoes, boots, sweater, coat, jacket, tie, scarf, pajamas, belt, hat, cap, gloves, vest, sweatshirt.

VERBS

Present tense verb to be: how are you? how old are you? how old is your sister? Are you Hanna?

Present tense verb to have: Have you got  a bike? Have you got a red sweater?

Open, close, touch, hit, catch, count, say, ask, take, write, play, sing, point to, kick, wear, walk, run, raise. 

There is and there are: How many players are there is a football team? Is there a folder on the table?

GRAMMAR

Present (to) be.

I´ve got

Imperative: ask a question, write your name on the board, don´t walk.

How many?

There is, there are, is there?, are there?

What´s the next number?

 How many… are there?

Are there…? Yes, there are, No, there aren´t

Pr. Simple: do you play…?

This is, That is.

What do you see?

My, your, his, her, our, your, their.

Whose ---(folder, coat, pen) is this? 

Is this…?

Are these your…? 

Today we had to prepare some pictures to go with our Christmas songs. Daniela did not come so we  still have to do one of the pictures.Anyway, this is what each student did:

David: he made a picture of a boy crying and wrote a big NO on it.

Sergio: he drew a picture of a boy pouting and wrote a huge NO on it.

Alejandra: she drew a picture of Santa Claus coming to town.

Omar: he drew a picture of Santa writing a list of names ( and checking it twice).

Nene: she drew a picture of a nice and good child-angel.

Marta: she drew a picture of a naughty and bad child devil.

Noelia: she drew a picture of a child sleeping.


The drawings are great (Sorry, all of them).

Then we were rehearsing the Christmas song using the drawings. That was difficult at the beginning but pretty soon everybody was coming out at the right moment. This is important because it means they know what they are singing.

We completed the Simpsons´worksheet. It is about possessive adjectives.

My
Your
His 
Her
It
Our
Your
Their

Remember: This is Marge . Bart, Lisa and Maggie are her children. We say her because Marge is a girl or a woman. 


So you can have some fun during the week here is link: Enjoy your week and Watch out¡

Today childen had to say their telephone number, but most students didn´t know it.

We reviewed the names of clothes all together and then one by one. To practice, we played Around the World. There was no winner today. Maybe next time. These are the clothes they have to learn: T-shirt, shirt, skirt, dress, trousers, jeans, jacket, coat, sweater, socks, shoes, boots, scarf, gloves, belt, tie, pajamas and the plural of the singular verbs,  like: skirts, shirts, coats, belts, dresses, sweaters, ties. 

Children drew 2 clothes items, cut them out, said what they had  and put them in the middle of the table. Then they asked each other:
Is this your T-shirt?
or
Are these your jeans?

We were rehearsing the Christmas song. Keep practising, you are doing really well¡

Here, boys and girls, click on this link and play the game, I´ll ask you next Monday.

Here is the link to the Christmas song we are learning: you can practice the song at home.

Yesterday we started the lesson linking numbers that were written on the board. We also learned the prepositions from and to. Go from number seventeen to twuenty four.

Next, we were working again on the possessive adjectives. Remember? My book, your coat, his ball,

her hat, our bikes, their dog.

We did an exercise from the book and then we listened to the recording to make sure we had not made any mistakes and also to practice listening.

After the break students were learning a Christmas song: Santa is Coming to Town. We listened to the song, then students read the lyrics aloud, a few lines each and after that we listened to the song again and sang it. They all did a GREAT JOB. 

The last half an hour we started learning the names of clothes. Students already knew some of them, but there were other words, like tie, gloves, scarf, vest, jeans, belt, shoes and boots that were almost new for them. We played a memory game with the clothes cards.

Good for David, he was the only one who had done his homework, and he made some pretty drawings too.

For next day you should know the song quite well so we can get ready for our Christmas celebration.

And don´t forget, Santa is watching you, so BE GOOD¡

Yesterday, Monday we started a new unit. In this unit we are studying the possessive adjectives. Here they are:

My
Your
His
Her
Its
Our
Your
Their

Examples:

This is my coat

This is your pencil case

This is his top (Omar´s top)

This is her bottle of water (Marta´s bottle of water)


This is little difficult for some of the students, but we don´t have to worry. Little by little, everybody will get used to using them.

To practice the possesive adjectives, we were filling up a worksheet about the Simpsons and saying sentences like: About Homer: Bart is his son. Lisa is his daughter. Marge is his wife.

Then, we read a story about a boy called Benjamin. Benjamin had a wonderful imagination and he imagined many things that nobody else could see. For the Olympic Games the students were divided into 2 teams and each team had to write a list of the things that Benjamin imagined. Guess wahat! Both teams gave the same number of correct answers: 7. That means everybody in the group had 7 points.

Homework

Make 1 drawings of something your father has. Example: My father.    This is his car.

Make 1 picture o something your mother has:  Example: My mother.:  This is her bag.

Make a picture of something you have: Example: This is my doll.

Remember the song I told you about? Here is the link: How many animals can you see? It´s a really nice song, so if you can, please listen to it and learn how maby animals you can see.

Today we did not have time to do everything, we spend too much time with the Olympic Games. But students learned some things quite well.

They are learning to count and say: How many ------ are there? There are ------ (Ex: 12 football players).

In out lesson we started saying the day of the week and the date. Students also answered to the question: What´s the weather like? And they learned the word windy, because today it was really windy.
Then we practiced saying the next number. 

The topic was sport teams: football, baseball, rugby, basketball, volleyball, handball. We also learned actions like throw the ball, catch the ball, hit the ball, kick the ball.
Students completed a matching exercise in their notebooks.

For the Olympic Games, students saw some pictures of players and they had two write: there are ?(number) ?(sport) players. i don´t have the scores yet.

Students ask each other "What´s your last name?" And then: What´s your telephone number? Some students did not know their phone number so they answered: I don´t know.

We spent a great part of the lesson working with numbers: counting by twos, by fives, by tens, backwards.
Students need to understand the instruction: count. And, what´s the next number? Students were given  a number sequence and they had to say what number was next. For instance: 3, 6, 9. What number comes next? 12.

We were reviewing the names of animals. Most students know them already. Then, they had to ask their classmates:

How many _i.e. monkeys(name of an animal) are there in the picture?

And answer: there are 7 monkeys in the picture.

They learned that some plural words are different, like: fish and sheep. And horse- horses (1 more syllable).

Finally we learned some Holloween words and played a Holloween board game. Unfortunately there wasn´t much time left for the game.

Player 1   10
Player 2     9
Player 3   10
Player 4     3
Player 5     3.5
Player 6     2
Player 7     5
Player 8     ?

At the beginning of the lesson students asked each other: What´s you last name? and What´s your telephone number? Students who didn´t know their number answered: I don´t know.

We were working with numbers a great part of the lesson. We were counting by twos, by fives and by tens. We were also counting backwards.

Today we were counting and practicing numbers again. First, students asked each other about a character´s age.
The pictures of the character were on the board with the name and the age.
Lisa. 8        They would ask: How old is Lisa? And the other child would say:  She is 8.

We worked on a worksheet we had started last week. Chidren had to listen to a recording and write the number of toys they heard. teacher wrote words on the board and children read the words aloud.

For about 10 minutes teacher gave instructions and students followed them: walk slowly, walk fast, raise your hands, touch your feet, sit on the floor, bend your legs, stretch your legs, touch your toes, stand up, hop.

To get points for the Olympic Games children were given some of those instructions. These are the scores:

Player 1    7
Player 2    8
Player 3    8
Player 4    7
Player 5  
Player 6     3
Player 7     9
Player  8    1

Homework  How many chairs are there in your home?
                     How many pictures are there in your home?
                     How many lights are there in your home?

Our lesson today: 

Days of the week.

Round of questions. How old are you? How old is your brother (or sister)? Each child asks the one sitting next to him/her.
Some students, Sergio, Omar, David, Daniela, Nene and Marta gave a little speech about themselves: My name is... I have ------( brothers or sisters), My sister´s name is , she is --- years old. I have some toys. My favorite toy is ..... WELL DONE.

Alejandra and Noelia, next day you must do it.

Names of toys using flashcardas. Students say "take the puppets" or "take the kite". Students are given signs with the names of toys and put them with the right picture.
I write names of toys on the board, students pronounce words, first together, then one by one. Teacher performs actions, students guess word.

Instructions: catch, throw, open, close, take, touch, count. Olympic Games. Students follow instructions, then give instructions themselves.

Player 1  10 points

Player 2  10  points

Player 3   10 points

Player 4    10 points

Player 5    4 points

Player 6     4 points

Player 7     10 points

Player 8     8 points

Homework

Count the number of cars you have.
Count the namber of games you have.
Count the number of dolls you have.
Count the number of balls you have.

Now write the answer.

Have you got a jumprope?
Yes, I have one.
or
No, I haven´t.
Have you got a top?
Yes, I have one.
or
No, I haven´t.

Your score for this week:

Player 1   10 p.

Player 2     6 p.

Player 3    10 p.

Player 4      6 p.

Player 5      6 p.

Player 6      6 p.

Player 7    10 p.


Homework

Ask everybody in your family: how old are you?  Have you got  brothers or a sisters?

My brother is ----- years old. He has 1 sister.

My mum is ----- years old. She´s got 2 brothers.


Good luck! See you next Monday.

OlympicGames

Player 1    10 points
Player 2    10 points
Player 3    ?
Player 4     4 points
Player 5     ?
Player 6     9 points
Player 7     6 points

Some of you did not leave the paper in the folder, so I don´t know haw many points you got.  You´ll have to wait until next week to know the points you got today.

Remember about the toys: if you cannot bring them, make a drawing of them: 4 dalls? 3 cars? 6 games?

David: write the numbers: 11: eleven, 12: twelve, 13: thirteen. Use a piece of paper for each number and don´t write the numbers, 11, 12 or 13, only the words.

In our first class we practised numbers, from 1 to 20. Students have special difficulty with numbers 13, thirteen, 14 fourteen, 15 fifteen, 16 sixteen, 17 seventeen, 18 eighteen and 19 nineteen.

Olympic games:
Player 1: 10 points
Player 2: 10 points
Player 3: 10 points
Player 4:   9 points
Player 5:   9 poins
Player 6:   9 points

Homework: next class you must show us a toy  you have a number of them.

Example: Andrea has got 5 Barbie dolls.

Have a wonderful week ... and see you next Monday!