BCC Intensive English Program

Student Learning Journal

Name: _____________________ Class: _____ Teacher: ____________
Year 5 - Unit 7

November 14th - December 2nd

Put on Your Thinking Cap

Over the course of the next three weeks students will be working on the unit titled Put on Your
Thinking Cap. During this unit students will learn about inventions and inventors. They will also
learn about what material things are made of and how things are used.
There will be a Reading CAT week 6 (November 28 th December 2nd).

Communication Objectives

To talk about inventions and Inventors.

To use creative thinking.
Describe what things are made of.
Talk about how inventions are used.

Language Objectives

To use the phrase made of + noun

(plastic, wood, metal)
Speculate: may and might
Be used + for
Be used + infinitive of purpose

Spelling Words
Week 4: experiment, invent, solution, machine, patent, electronic, device, inventor, made of,
used for
Week 5: may, might, invention, cloth, glass, metal, paper, plastic, wood, rubber
Week 6: telephone, television, contact lenses, remote control, fridge, washing machine, sewing
machine, wheel, wireless, soap
.

Teachers Suggestions
Parents can help their child with this unit by reviewing the work covered in class
each day and asking questions relevant to the unit. Please do not complete any
exercises in the book unless it has been assigned as homework.
Please check your sons homework book everyday. If the teacher has assigned
homework, please make sure that he completes it. Sign your name in the box headed
Parents signature when the assignment is finished. You will also find a box for
behaviour, which the teacher will tick at the end of each week. Please discuss this
with him.

Parents comments:
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Parents Signature ______________________________ Date _________________

(Please sign this Student Learning Journal and ask your son to return it next lesson)