These are pictures of August Class. They are a group of 7 year olds in their second and third years of English studies. I teach them science and math as well as reading. They are a handful…
In science, we’ve been talking about plants. They been learning about the parts of plants, their life cycle and what they need. As a culminating activity, we planted chive seeds today. We’ll observe them over the next few weeks and record their growth.
Pictures for your enjoyment….
This is a picture of one of our 5 year olds named Blue. He picked the name. His new English name is David, but we all still call him Blue. He’s too cute and silly to be a David. I could see him as a Davy, but not a David. But I digress. This is possibly the smartest kid I’ve seen in a long time. He makes full sentences and has a very good vocabulary. Remember Korean ages are different. He’s probably not much more than 4 really.
He’s even cuter in person…
I’m a believer in using games to educate and reward. I have a class of first graders whose favorite game is a spelling bee. Who would have thunk it?
Hot Seat! comes courtesy of a coworker. It emphasizes speaking and vocabulary. It’s a simple game that uses nothing more than a marker/chalk, a chair and a word list.
I’ve played this both as a team game with points and a just general activity. Place a chair under the board. Have one student sit in the chair so they can’t see the board. Either the teacher or another student writes a word on the board. The students not on the “hot seat”. The rest of the students have to describe the word on the board for the other student to guess.
If you play in teams, put a limit on the time to give clues. I disallow sign language no matter what. Depending on the level of the class, the clues can be single words, phrases or full sentences. Sometimes it’s fun for higher level classes to be limited to one word at a time because they have to work cooperatively to give the clues.
When I teach domain specific knowledge, such as science, I use the chapter or unit vocabulary as the word list.
If you try it with your students, let me know how it goes!
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