This Week's Lesson Plan (December 18th, 20th)

Lesson Plan

Week 49

Theme: Happy Holidays

Subject: All about winter and the holidays

Book: The Snowy Day

Target Language: I like to…(action)  ex. I like to make a snowman

play in the snow, make a snowman, throw a snowball, make cookies, sing Christmas songs, give gifts, eat delicious food

Lesson 1 (Tuesday, December 18^th )

Word Wall

Teacher reviews the words and expressions that we learned last week.  Teacher asks students to say which action they like best. ex. I like to throw a snowball.

Story Time-The Snowy Day

Before the class, teacher asks students how they feel on a snowy day.  Teacher reviews all the fun activities that can be done on a snowy day (ex. make a snowman, have a snowball fight).  During the story, teacher asks students what Peter is doing in the snow and how he feels.

Activity-Finishing Bingo Sheets

Students will finish making their Christmas Bingo sheets which they started on Thursday. When they are all finished, teacher will review the Christmas words again.

Lesson 2 (Thursday, December 20^th )

Today is our Christmas Party!  MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Today is a day to celebrate Christmas by playing Christmas games, singing Christmas songs and eating delicious Christmas treats!

This Week's Lesson Plan (December 11-13th)

Lesson Plan

Week 48

Theme: Happy Holidays

Subject: All about winter and the holidays

Book: The Sweet Smell of Christmas

Target Language: I like to…(action)  ex. I like to make a snowman

play in the snow, make a snowman, throw a snowball, make cookies, sing Christmas songs, give gifts, eat delicious food

Lesson 1 (Tuesday, December 11^th )

Word Wall

Teacher reviews the words and expressions that we learned last week.  Teacher asks students to say which action they like best. ex. I like to throw a snowball.

Story Time-The Sweet Smells of Christmas

This book will engage students’ senses and get them thinking about the parts of the story.  During the story, teacher will allow students to smell the book and describe what they smell.  Teacher will explain why that object is important for Christmas.

Activity-Christmas Pipe Cleaner Ornaments

Students will make Christmas tree ornaments from pipe cleaners.  They will make candy canes, snowflakes or other Christmas related themes.

Review

Teacher will review the new words and expressions for this month.

Lesson 2 (Thursday, December 13^th )

Word Wall

Teacher does a review of the target language we learned last class.  Teacher will ask students to do the actions as they do the expressions.

Christmas Bingo Words

Since next week is our Christmas Party, students will get ready for Christmas Bingo.  Teacher will explain all of the Christmas words and students will choose words that they like to write and draw on their Bingo sheets.

Christmas Song Review

Students will review “Rudolf the read-nosed reindeer”.  Teacher will add in hand gestures to add meaning to the words in the song.

Guess Who? Game

Last week, we played the game "Guess Who?"
This is a great game for describing people and animals.  The students really showed me that they can describe things by themselves.  Thay also ahd a great time doing it!

It's Christmas Time Again!

Here are some pictures of tour Chritmas-themed activities.

We have started talking about all the fun things that we like to do for the winter holidays.  The students are really great at expressing these ideas!

Putting up our ornaments on the Christmas tree.

This Week's Lesson Plan (December 4-6th)

Lesson Plan

Week 47

Theme: Happy Holidays

Subject: All about winter and the holidays

Book: One Winter’s Day

Target Language: I like to…(action)  ex. I like to make a snowman

play in the snow, make a snowman, throw a snowball, make cookies, sing Christmas songs, give gifts, eat delicious food

Lesson 1 (Tuesday, December 4^th )

Word Wall

Teacher introduces the new target language for this month.  Teacher will explain the target language by showing students the actions.  Students will then do the actions and use the target language.

Story Time-One Winter’s Day

Teacher will show the students the story for this week and ask students about the picture on the cover and what they think the story is about.  Students may answer with words that they know.  During the story, teacher will ask students how they think Little Hedgehog feels as he walks in the cold snow.

Activity-Lovely Stockings

Students will make beautiful paper stockings.  Students will decorate them with glitter and add details that they like.

Review

Teacher reviews the new words and expressions for this month.

Lesson 2 (Thursday, December 6^th )

Word Wall

Teacher does a review of the target language we learned last class.  Teacher asks students to do the actions as they do the expressions.

Readers

As a big group, we will read “Can you see what I see?”  Students will take turns reading and finding the objects in the ‘read and seek.’  Then, teacher will review all the vocabulary that we learned from the book.

Christmas Song

Students will learn and sing “Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer”.  We will start practicing from today so that we can sing it during our Christmas Party.

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

Had a very shiny nose

and if you ever saw it 

you would even say it glows.

All of the other reindeer 

used to laugh and call him names,

they never let poor Rudolph 

join in any reindeer games.

Then one foggy Christmas Eve, 

Santa came to say 

"Rudolph with your nose so bright,

won’t you guide my sleigh tonight?"

Then how the reindeer loved him,

as they shouted out with glee,

Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, 

You’ll go down in history.

This Week's Lesson Plan (November 27th-29th)

Lesson Plan

Week 46

Theme: Forest Fun

Subject: Life in the Forest

Book: Stick Man

Target Language: It has… (adjective+noun)  ex. It has scary teeth.

forest, woods, mud, grass, plants

teeth, claws, horns, scary, terrible, friendly

Lesson 1 (Tuesday, November 27^th )

Word Wall

Teacher asks a student to volunteer and come up to the word wall.  The student will review the target language for this month.

Story Time-Stick Man

Before the story, teacher asks students to look at stick man and describe him.  Students may respond with, “It has friendly eyes.” Or “It is tall.”  During the reading, teacher will ask students what problems Stick Man faces (for example, dogs try to eat him and people throw him).  Teacher asks students who Stick Man helps and how.

Activity-Forest Tree Ornaments

Students make forest themed tree ornaments to hang on our Christmas tree.  They can choose between forest animals and plants.

Review

Teacher reviews the new words and expressions for this month.

Lesson 2 (Thursday, November 29^th )

Market Day

Students use their points to buy gifts for market day.

Word Wall

Teacher does a final review of the target language for this month.

Describing Game

Students are divided into two teams to play the describing game “Guess Who”.  Students will ask questions such as, “Do you have big eyes?” or “Do you have long brown hair?” to guess the other team’s person to win the game.

***We will do readers from next week.

This Week's Lesson Plan (November 20th-22nd)

Lesson Plan

Week 45

Theme: Forest Fun

Subject: Life in the Forest

Book: Deep in the Forest

Target Language: It has… (adjective+noun)  ex. It has scary teeth.

forest, woods, mud, grass, plants

teeth, claws, horns, scary, terrible, friendly

Lesson 1 (Tuesday, November 20^th )

Word Wall

Teacher introduces the new words and expressions for this month.  Teacher asks students what they recall from last week’s class.  Students share what they learned.

Story Time-Deep in the Forest

This week’s book ‘Deep in the Forest’ is a wordless book.  It means it doesn’t have any words.  Students are then challenged to tell the story with their words and ideas.  Teacher will ask students what is happening in the pictures.  Students answer with short sentences like, “The bear eats the baby’s food” or “Mom and dad get angry.” 

Activity-Forest Finger Painting

Students use paints and shaped sponges to make a forest picture.  Students will be encouraged to use ideas and characters from ‘Deep in the Forest’.

Review

Teacher reviews the new words and expressions for this month.

Lesson 2 (Thursday, November 22^nd )

Word Wall

Teacher goes over the target language we learned last week.

Step into Reading Readers

Teacher and students will read “Tae Kwon Do” together.  Each student will have a chance to read the story.

Activity-Sentence Cards

Students will use the sentence cards to make interesting sentences.  This week we will add “don’t” so that students can make negative sentences like, “I don’t like bugs” or “I don’t have friends”.

Review

Teacher reviews the new words and expressions for this month.

This Week's Lesson Plan (November 13-15th)

Lesson Plan

Week 44

Theme: Forest Fun

Subject: Life in the Forest

Book: The Gruffalo’s Child

Target Language: It has… (adjective+noun)  ex. It has scary teeth.

forest, woods, mud, grass, plants

teeth, claws, horns, scary, terrible, friendly

Lesson 1 (Tuesday, November 13^th )

Word Wall

Teacher introduces the new words and expressions for this month.  Teacher asks students what they recall from last week’s class.  Students share what they learned.

Story Time-The Gruffalo’s Child

Teacher reviews last week’s book ‘The Gruffalo’ and introduces this week’s book ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’.  Before reading, students recall things that they learned about the Gruffalo and the forest.  During and after reading, students identify things in the forest that they know.

Project-Big Forest

This week, both classes will share the same activity.  We will make a big forest together with different materials.  Students will choose what part of the forest they would like to make.  We will start on Tuesday and finish on Thursday.

Review

Teacher reviews the new words and expressions for this month.

Lesson 2 (Thursday, November 15^th )

Word Wall

Teacher goes over the target language we learned last week.

Step into Reading Readers

Teacher and students will read “Big Egg” together.  Each student will have a chance to read the story.

Project-Big Forest (finish)

Students will finish the project we started on Tuesday.  Then, we will display it in the classroom for everyone to see.

Review

Teacher reviews the new words and expressions for this month.

This Week's Lesson Plan (November 6-8th)

Lesson Plan

Week 43

Theme: Forest Fun

Subject: Life in the Forest

Book: The Gruffalo

Target Language: It has… (adjective+noun)  ex. It has scary teeth.

forest, woods, mud, grass, plants

teeth, claws, horns, scary, terrible, friendly

Lesson 1 (Tuesday, November 6^th )

Word Wall

Teacher introduces the new words and expressions for this month.  Teacher explains how to describe things using It has… (adjective+noun).  Students practice making simple sentences.

Story Time-The Gruffalo

Teacher introduces the story by describing The Gruffalo, a big scary looking beast who lives in the forest.  During the story, teacher asks students to describe what they see.

Activity-Wooden Pendants

Students make pendants with pieces of wood.  Students will choose a nature or forest theme for their designs.

Review

Teacher reviews the new words and expressions for this month.

Lesson 2 (Thursday, November 8^th )

Word Wall

Teacher goes over the target language we learned last week.

Step into Reading Readers

Teacher and students will read “I like bugs” together.  Each student will have a chance to read the story.

Sentence Making Cards

Students will use word cards to make practice making simple sentences. For this month students will also practice making their own sentences with

It has… (adjective+noun).

Review

Teacher reviews the new words and expressions for this month.

Sentence Making Activity

Since we finished reading the Sight Words Readers, it's a great time to start reading and making sentences!

Today, we used three sets of colored cards to make sentences.  Some students used the cards to make funny sentences like 'I eat books' and 'You make cats'.  It was fun and they learned a lot!  Here are some pictures of students and their sentences.

This funny boy wrote: You make cats.  I eat friends. (So he was smiling...)

I have toys. You make friends.

I have friends.  You eat cookies.

Halloween Party Pictures

We had a great time on Tuesday!  Some children wore costumes and we really enjoyed Halloween.  Here are some fun pictures!

Boys enjoying yummy treats

Girls having fun

Oooh...what a scary costume!

Delicious and scary witch finger cookies :)

This Week's Lesson Plan (October 30th-November 1st)

Lesson Plan

Week 42

Theme: A pot, a Pan and a Wooden Spoon

Subject: Cooking and Sequence

Book:

Target Language: I+(verb)

add, cook, mix, make, pot, pan, spoon, fork, knife, chopsticks

Sight Words: we, get, will, fly

Lesson 1 (Tuesday, October 30^th )

Today is our Halloween Party!!!

Making Witch Finger Cookies

We will make cookies in the shape of scary witch fingers.  We will make them and then bake them in the oven.  Then, we will enjoy them together!

Halloween Vocab Bingo

Students will use the Bingo cards that they made last week for the game.  Students will win exciting Halloween prizes.

Trick or Treat!

Students do a big Trick or Treat to the teacher for Halloween treats.

Lesson 2 (Thursday, November 1^st )

Market Day

Students use the points that they earned to buy gifts.

Sight Words Cards Activity

Students will be given a set of sight words that they will use this month.  Teacher will show students how to make and read basic sentences with the cards.  When students are ready, they will make their own short sentences.

For example: I + like + you, I + am + a + girl, I + don’t + like + ants

Final Review

Teacher reviews all words and expressions that we learned in October.  Teacher introduces the new theme for November, Life in the Forest.

***We will start new reader books next week.