Updates are long overdue!`

I have used this blog as a reference for the past year of teaching. It's been a great help to me, although the grade 4 curriculum has expanded to twice weekly now. Furthermore, I use it to reference what I have taught in the past, and by make improvements by assessing how I taught it the year previous, I can create better ever-more effective lesson plans for my students.

I've been taking notes in the textbook and am due to update it at my earliest availability.

my love to my students for inspiring me to create new materials each year (I thought I'd have no more planning to do...but theres always something more...)

and for teaching me daily that theres always something to find joy in, and showing me how to be a better--reflexive--teacher, though it may be a slow and sometimes painful process.

4.3.3 Sorry I Can't-->Reading & Review

Clapping-->Sorry I can't

Action guessing game

S&J 173

Learn new song:

Let's play badminton/basketball

Sorry I can't...I have a cold.

What's the difference between I am cold and I HAVE a cold?

Use actions to demonstrate. (a quick TPR activity could be good here)

Crossword p 75 txtbook

touchscreen game (dvdrom)

Hot potato- sack: Pass the bag to the tune of "Let's play Badminton"

When the music stops, student holding bag must pull out a card and say the correct phrase.

Team with most points at end of game leaves class first.

Bye!

4.7.2 Sorry I Can't!

Review Phrases & vocab

New phrase: Are you ALRIGHT? same as Are you okay, but new word!

Action Clap & repeat!

S&J 171

DVDrom

textbook p 72

Prelisten & watch

Listen & Repeat

CHANT

If theres time: Whispering game

4.7.1 Sorry I can't.

KEY PHRASES:

Let's + VERB

"Let's play ______." (baseball, tennis, ping-pong...)

"Okay, Let's Go!"

"Sorry I can't."

VOCABULARY: baseball, basketball, tennis, soccer, table-tennis, ping-pong, badminton

sick, tired, sleepy, hungry, busy.

S & J 169

Pre-listen

Watch

watch a 2nd time and discuss

Listen & repeat.

See you next time!

4.6.4 Is this Your Cap?>Review

Intro: PBS kids between the lions Storytime "Spicy Hot colors"

Review Objects & colors one more time.

Play 'Pass the Cap' in groups.

S&J 151

SING Is this your Cap?

TEXTBOOK PP68-9

Play SLAP GAME

See you next week!

4.6.3 Is this Your Cap

Warm-up: LISTEN & ACT--catch, throw, drop.

Students learn to mimic 3 actions with new words.

Student must say, Throw me the ball!

Toss the ball, saying catch the ball!

If they do not say the phrase, then CALL them on it!

Occasionally throw in there a "drop the ball," for the hell of it!

Re-Listen to Dialogues #1 & 2

Step & Jump p 149

DVDROM

textbook p65

Sing Is this your puppy? (to the tune of hush little babyDVD)

Matching activity

Activity DVD book bag drop--interactive!

Play, Telephone Charades

Pass out homework

See you next week!

4.6.2 Is this your Cap?

Warm-up: hand out all the picture card of vocabulary (see lesson #1)

review the difference between MY/YOUR/HIS/HER...THIS/THAT

each kid with a card comes up to the felt board and sticks it up there, saying,

"This is MY _____."

The class responds by saying,

"THAT is HIS/HER ____."

Step & Jump

INTRODUCE: new materials

"What color is it?" and colors! red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, brown, white (Who's wearing ____?).

Sing "Rainbow, Rainbow, Colors of the Rainbow!"

Have different students hold up the cards when they hear the names

DVD ROM

Textbook pp62-3

Pre-listen & Watch

Listen & Repeat

Listen & Draw (txtbook 109)

*extra time backup: Play "IT." one student goes outside and teacher picks an item from the class. Outside student comes back in and gets to guess 3 times to find out whose ____ it is.