MAY AS_3 SCHEDULE

5/6 no class: kids day holiday
5/13 worksheet (how many...)
VOCAB:
actions: dance, sleep, walk, see, laugh, smell, run, cry, smile, sing
animals rabbit, duck, cat, mouse, dog
Talk about CAN: "Can a duck dance? Can a Rabbit run?"
Play AroundTheWorld
Drawing project--begin
blend two animals and talk about what they look like, what they can and can't do, and posessives.
I have a _______.
It belongs to me.
My _______ is _______.
My _______ can ______.
It is my _____________!
ex) rabbit + dog= ROGGIT.
I have a roggit. It belongs to me.
My roggit is white and furry.
My roggit can run fast and jump.
It is my roggit!
5/20: start with bi-animal project. drawing, writing, sharing.
guessing game. (like 20 questions) with animals & actions.
BINGO/TIC TAC TOE
Play would you like to buy my donkey?
"My donkey can...." you must not smile! If you smile you must "buy the donkey" you become the donkey and the donkey becomes the farmer selling you.
5/27 (teepee shuffle?)

April 15: 2nd class

Well I started out with a snapping circle chant and Mayas little sister, Gina looked terrified. luckily, I know how Maya was last year at the beginning of AS class, and how outgoing she is in it, now...so...I'm hoping she'll step up and get excited about being in English AS. I'll just be careful this month not to scare anyone away!
--Wendy and Gina--low level
--Everyone else-- pretty good.
so we're starting from the beginning and playinglots of games. today we focused on Feelings
Well, excited, happy, angry, sick, sad, tired, hungry, thirsty
instead of the the initial plan to focus on Actions--"What are you doing?"
I LITERALLY changed my entire program plan in FIVE SECONDS--because I knew it would scare Gina away. So we stuck to my original original plan, and are starting at the basics. I am incorporating a lot of dramatics in to make the kids who already kjnow this stuff be able to just have fun, and the lower-level ones feel on par with their peers in the AS English classroom.

So we reviewed vocab,
played around the World with feelings (Tom won a sticker to put on his class picture)
did the feelings gauntlet--with this class it worked really well, since they're all so outgoing
played LEMONADE
then made faces and bubble quotes to cut out and put on the windows.
We lined up in order of ABC and said goodbye
"Come again!"
"Thanks, I will!"

AFTERSCHOOL: SPRING 2010

What an interesting collection of kids I have here!

Gina is Maya's(from gr4) little sister, Tom lived in Florida and has an American uncle in Miami, Jacob is the typical turn-your eyelids inside-out kind of clown kid (just like Brian was last year, Wendy seems to be pretty new to English; Allie, Cedrick, Jack and Judy all obviously have been studying English for a long time and go to Hagwon.

It's clear to me that I'm going to have to scrap all (or most) of my grade 3 plans and start anew--higher up; because this crowd of kids is pretty adept. Still, they are young--grade 3, and I want to keep it fun, learn LOTS of new vocabulary, and do a lot of crafts and games. I intend to treat this like a conversations/activity camp-class.

Watch out new little thirdies; I have high expectations of you!

today we drew pictures of ourselves and shared them, then did my favorite action-name game. next week we'll play the sheet drop game: you are CEDRICK! and add to it some vocab: emotions? Cedrick is happy! sad! excited! etc...etc...

Much love,

Sus

WINTER CAMP 2010 Jan 4~7

DAY ONE: welcome & learning instructions

Warm-up activity.: Learn a song (Say Hello!)

Pick English names, make nametags

CLASSROOM RULES: No eating/drinking in class, No handphones, ENGLISH TALKING ONLY, Please try to do everything we are doing! Discuss the Secret Ornament ball : kids earn points all day, and the person @ the end of day with most points gets whatever is INSIDE the ball! (VERY SUCCESSFUL)

Name games

I AM…HE IS…SHE IS….WE ARE (actions), (ZIP-ZAP: using nametags & the mystery bag)

ABCs practice, Sing ABCs, ABC+ Sounds

ABC order activity. Get everyone moving. Students learn to line up according to the ABC order of their names. (make is harder by blindfolding them and attatching their hands to a rope they must keep one hand on at all times)

VOCAB. Intro: CATCH BOOK 1 UNIT 4: REVIEW

Let’s see what everyone knows!

CATCH pp34-5

Scavenger hunt classroom items. WORKSHEET. Find it—what is it? color is it?

If you can’t spell it, come to the front of the classroom & find the picture. Turn it over & spell it.

Afternoon conversation:

“What’s for lunch? I’m having ____! It’s good! It’s not good!”

SNACK TIME

PHONICS SLAP game, listen to the sound of the letter, slap the letter before anyone else.

CRAFT ACTIVITY ABC poster look through magazines to find things that start with the letters you’re given! (not very successful--I changed it by day 2)

END WITH ANOTHER NAME GAME (SHEET DROP)

Line up according to ABC order @ the door. We will sing a goodbye song and then go. See you tomorrow!

DAY TWO: numbers & animals

CATCH BOOK 1 UNIT 6

DOL Warm-up: review worksheet

Sing a morning song (way up in the sky!)

Chant ABCs,

Morning conversation topic: “Look at this! This is my _____. It is __COLOR__. It is MY __—thing>.”

Practice stand up, sit down, look, listen, stop! GAME—Ship to shore

Learn a song (stand up! Sit down! Listen! Look! Stop!) stevesongs on youtube

Vocabulary WORKSHEET numbers & animals

One ~ ten, turtle, rabbit, spider, cat, dog, fish, frog, horse, cow, pig, llama, penguin,

Quick learning activity: More than---less than

PLAY 20 questions

Can it JUMP/CLIMB/RUN/SWIM?

Is it a ____?

How many are there? More than, less than

Yes it is/no it isn’t!

LUNCH BREAK

PLAY AROUND THE WORLD (flashcard competitive game)

Match-up milling around activity (each student has a picture of word on their back and must find their pair by asking questions about their animal)

SPEECH Role-Play Table manners…Learn the items at a table and learn the language and customs of Western table manners.

Vocabulary & key phrases:

Plate, fork, knife, spoon

Please pass the…

Here you are…

Thank you…

Don’t reach!

Singing, “please pass the…”

ABC game Memory

Line up according to ABC order @ the door. We will sing a goodbye song and then go. See you tomorrow!

DAY Three: How are you?

DOL warm up. Spelling simple words, learning about rhyming.

Rhyming circle spout.

Morning conversation: pre-reading: look at a book cover and tell me about what you see. What do you think this book is about?

VOCABULARY: Milk cheese, bread, eggs, watermelon, lemonade, salad

draw pics and spell the words together on the board.

Sing: to the tune of where is thumbkin:

“Do you like cheese? Do you like cheese?

Yes I do! Yes I do!

I don’t like cheese. I don’t like cheese!

No I don’t. No thank you!

Worksheets

PLAY LEMONADE: What do you like? I like ____.

Team A: students make an action (let’s swim)

TEAM B: is an animal/feeling. If they CAN, then they chase team A, if they can’t, they say sorry I can’t and run the other way.

SNACK

Watch I like: stevesongs pbskids

Activity Around the world.

Game Heads Up seven-Up

Cake Walk. Kids dance around till music stops. I ask them, Do you like ____? Student standing on the card answers, I do! I like ___! and earns a point.

READ I Hate My Bow! and answer questions to earn points.

Line up according to ABC order @ the door. We will sing a goodbye song and then go. See you tomorrow!

DAY FOUR: they are, they aren’t/ What are you wearing?

DOL Warm-Up: Spelling simple words. Writing simple in/on sentences.

CATCH p 102 draw a bar chart. Interview your classmates to find out who likes/doesn’t like certain foods. Conversation: “Do you like salad? Yes I do, I like salad. No I don’t! I don’t like salad!”

Conversation ACTIVITY: Guessing. draw a picture..make it secret! What are in my hand? They are orange, they aren’t round…etc etc.

WORKSHEET: are/aren’t

Short activity. Remembery. Look at some plastic foods under a cloth for 30 seconds, then go back and write as many as you can down on a paper. Conversations: Teacher: they’re orange”

Student: “Yes! They’re carrots!

--or—

No! they aren’t! they’re oranges.

New Vocabulary: Clothing

Shoes, pants, t-shirt, sweater, socks, skirt, scarf, blouse, hat, vest, earmuff, dress, sweatshirt, boots, slippers

Worksheet: draw a picture of someone in the class.

Draw a picture by what your classmate tells you. She is wearing…….. she is wearing……

WORKSHEET:

Play fruitbasket upset (see games page)

SNACK

TPR drawing: draw a happy face. He is a boy. He has short yellow hair. He is wearing green pants. And a purple teeshirt. His hat is very small, and it is blue. He is wearing pink socks and red boots. He likes apples a lot, but he doesn’t like carrots!

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY: Dress-up relay race

How old are you? Read/worksheet

Musical spelling ACTIVITY: Students will listen to a word I give them and must look through magnetic letters to find the right letters to spell the word.

OCTOBER: Shapes Lesson #1

From CATCH curriculum;

Attendence, greetings, "Hey there!"

Vocabulary: the words: SHAPE, COLOR...triangle, circle, oval, square, trapezoid, diamond, hexagon, cross, heart, star.

Key Phrases:

What SHAPE/COLOR is it?

It's a (adj+ _____.)

Review the rainbow color song.

LEARN NEW: Students take turns pulling felt shapes from the bag what SHAPE is it? It's a triangle. What COLOR is it? It's a red triangle.

PLAY Categories

lap*lap*clap*clap* snap twice and say (red triangle....blue diamond...yellow square...) for a challenge, speed up the clapping. when kids can't come up with it, have them sit just outside the circle.

PLAY circle game: Not a_____ But a ______.

sit in a circle and give the kids a felt shape. Ask, "What SHAPE is it?"

"It's a circle!" tell them OH NO! it's not a 'circle,' it's a _______"

..get creative. encourage the kids to get creative, and act out what it COULD be!

... a cookie

... a cushion

... a compass

... an eye-patch

Hand out worksheet for homework. How many, pp 31 & 53 color, cut & paste!

When you bring it back and you get a sticker in the book!

SEPTEMBER: New Semester

Welcome back returning students, welcome new kids pick English names.

Everyone makes nametags--Susan laminates them.

Circle up on the stage: go over 5 rules of Special class

1) English only

2) Be ON TIME. if you're late, wait in the back of the classroom to be invited in!

3) No food in Class, NO PHONES!

4) pay attention when someone is talking!

5) have fun! try to learn English!

Name Games:

I am...she is...he is...

Sheet drop rover

ABC order with letters then names.

See you next week!

6/30/09 Class review: I,ME, MY continued

Oh my goodness these kids are so smart, but they are so young, and they have a LOT of energy!!!!!! it is like doing kindys all over again, sometimes. But it can be a lot of fun, too. like today.

1st, attendence. I called each student and asked them to do something: stand up, sit down, look, listen....things we've learned in class. just so each kid gets a chance to be put on the spot. this class works best when I can focus them into a circle, tables kindof stink with them.

2nd, move into a circle and review our vocabulary.
I have a PLUM.
It belongs to ME.
This is MY plum.

3rd. I brought PLUMS with me. pulled out the feelings cards, and made a drama activity even more fun. One student stands in the circle, and they see a feelings card (e.g; ANGRY) and then they must perform the vocab. script in that tone. KUDOS to Jessica for giving a wonderful ANGRY plum performance, and Rory for giving a sad performance.

finally, a short reading/paperwork activity from "What kids should know to read 1st grade"
line up and say goodbye!