Monthly Plan

Teacher Alexandra Hopkins School Urbana 996

Month October Grade 4th Unit Lev. Guide

Social Greet friends, family members, and teachers at school and home.
Practices
Achievement Students should be able to introduce him/herself in different
situations.

Environment Familiar, literary and ludic.

Class Activities Purposes

To do To know To be
Interpret and recite greeting, farewell and To learn how to greet
1 courtesy expressions. Show them a dialogue family, teachers, and
about greetings, practice them (drillings), do a friends.
written activity.
Follow and give instructions about every day To follow instructions.
2 school and family life activities. Show and
model these activities. Write them down. Peer
practice. Give them a sheet of paper with
some instructions in order. The first one will
be: “read carefully the following instructions”.
After some funny activities, the last one will
be: “Just write your name on the top of this
page.”
Locate objects and places at school. To do a map of the
3 Differences of intonation between questions school.
and answers. Is this the library? Yes/No
questions. Show places at school (flashcards),
practice them orally (drilling), talk about them.
Create a school map.
Grammar: phrasal verbs (wake up, turn off, To write simple
4 etc.), personal pronouns (I, you, etc.), modal sentences about
verbs (could, would, etc. school’s places.
Explore and model short dialogues where To do a brief dialogue.
5 instructions about every day school and family
life activities are followed and given; objects
and school places are located.
Listen to the reading of a story. Identify and To identify facts.
6 express moods, facts or experiences. Cold
Weather.
Spell words of a story. Identify specific To identify vocabulary,
7 information of a story while asking questions. and spell words.

Parts of a book: cover, undercover, slaps, etc. To identify these parts.

8
 Graphic and textual components: title, author, To identify these parts.
9 paragraphs, illustrations, text, pages, etc.
Show these parts in a book. Illustrate on
notebook.
Structure and elements of a story: opening, To fill in a story map
10 body, and ending; characters. with drawings.

Verb tense: past. Adjectives: qualitative. To identify verbs in the

11 Mechanical letter-sound correspondence. Give story.
and receive personal information (name,
activity, occupations, etc.); preferences (food,
sports, and/or hobbies); and one’s own and
others’ physical appearance.
Identify and understand information about To create simple
12 routines. Identify expressions related to sentences.
personal expectations. Structure of dialogues:
opening, body, ending. Types of sentences
(statements, questions, etc.) Show kinds of
sentences, illustrate on nb. Practice simple
sentences.

Product

Students will do bingo cards about verbs. Play throughout the month to practice
them.
Notes

Cold Weather
Thomas was not hot. He was not warm either. He was cold. The
weather was not hot. The weather was not warm either. The
weather was cold. Thomas did not like to be cold. He looked for his
jacket. He found his jacket. He put on his jacket. But he was still
cold. He looked at the windows. Were all the windows closed? Yes,
they were. They were all closed. None of the windows were open.
He looked at the door. The door wasn’t open. It was closed. He was
still cold. He looked for a warmer jacket.
 Vocabulary

close
find
hot
jacket
warm
weather
window
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