Class Review 4/28/09

I started using a new curriculum specifically for this 3rd grade class.
it's an ESL curric. called CATCH. It is starting out waaay basic, and I'm hoping it'll help me gague out the kids who are way advanced and the ones who can't even read, because the group is DEFINITELY very stratified. Allover, they seem to be a very bright, smart group. and I'm excited to see how far I can take them this term.
CATCH--Lesson ! part 1

Objectives: Students will sight-read (and understand) new vocabularywords. They will use their previous classwork to identify written color words in a coloring by word picture. will read together and understand that before a person title or animal, we use the word, a or an.

Key Phrases:
What's your name?
I'm ________.
Who are you?
I'm a ______.

Vocabulary & grammar points
girl, boy, teacher, student, monster, a mouse, an elephant.

Worksheets from Catch student&activitybooks/grade 1 word book.
pp1,2,3,4.

Goals for next lesson. Part 2 of lesson 1 is identifying classroom objects:
pencil, chair, book, table, board, notebook, pen, bookshelf--in a cut & paste activity
And play a game using the directional phrases,
Stand up, sit down, listen, look, stop!
I've noticed some of the students have very little reading skill, and some read perfectly. I want to incorporate phonics mini-lessons into each lesson. a good review for the kids who can already read, and I hope it'll make the other kids feel like they're being sneaky under the radar while really getting in some good letter-sound identification.
I really like this class! they're clever and good-natured! I'm excited to go on this english class journey with them, and I hope that they learn a lot. if they don't, then I know it's my fault, because all of them is trying!

Class Review 4/7/09

Class went very well today. we started with attendance, repeating everyone's korean & English name. One new student today, 헤린, became Helene. It seems logical. I am getting pretty good at just pulling name substitues out of my hat, or letting kids feel okay if we have to tweek the name so we don't have two of each. In 4th grade special, we now have Kara/Kira, Christie/Chrissy, and June/Jane. Sara/SaraH. In this class I only have that problem with Mia/Maya & Genie/Gina. I figure it's a good lesson in culture--because if someone has a different name in an American classroom, one kid always has to change, or add the first letter of his/her last name to their title. So week #2 & names it has all been sorted!

After attendence, we talked about "How are you?"
Learned the Chant, "Hey, hello how are you?" "I am _______, how are you?"
and using flashcards, we learned sick, hungry, thirsty & well. Went around the class asking how are you and answering depending on which card I was holding up.

Then, we went over COLORS: our topic of the day.
Using flashcards, we learned red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, black, white.
learned the rainbow, rainbow, colors of the rainbow song.
Each kid got a card to hold up and when they heard their card name, they had to hold it up. We sang it several times, each time getting faster and a teeny more chaotic. It was really fun!

Played around the world using color flashcards.

Colored a rainbow picture, cut it out and pasted it on the window.---soo pretty!
after class, I made multi-colored raindrops for the rainbows, and a flower. each drop/petal has the color name on it.

Goals for next week: continue to talk about greetings, "how are you?" and different answers. EACH CLASS SHOULD BEGIN WITH A NEW GREETING TOPIC, 5-10 MINS ONLY. AS A FRIENDLY FRIENDLY WARM-UP.
breifly review colors, then get into the alphabet. students will read & say aloud together, color by listening, play BINGO, and maybe do a letter scavenger hunt!

Class List

Nina: 손귤잎
Rory: 김정빈
Gina: 유진아
Ella: 창수친
Genie: 남지헤
Mia: 엄수영
Helene: 한헤린
Mary: 김지윤
Jessica: 조도해
Brian: 김대욱
Marty: 권민성
Maya: 한희윤
Andy: 황우혁
absent: 손령빈 & 박우역