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What Is It?

This is from a couple years ago.  It’s an activity that focuses on speaking, especially asking questions and basic vocabulary.  The idea is to blindfold a student and then give them an object.  Another student asks the first what he/she is holding.  If the student can’t guess, the other students give clues.   It’s a lot of fun.

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A Sense of Humor

So I was in my Sha Sha class a couple weeks ago.  I was passing out the books, and as usual, I was butchering the names of the kids.  The kids who aren’t in the bilingual or the English imersion program don’t get English names, hence the butchering of their Korean names.

One of the kids had a family name of Won.  As I slowly stumbled over it, one of the other kids standing there waiting went “Won, two, three!”.  Yikes!  A 5 year old with a wicked sense of humor.

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Eric’s Commercial

The C1 Speaking and Writing class has been reading James and the Giant Peach with me for the last few months.  I’ve decided to take it slow and do a whole lot of fun stuff with it.  I’ll outline those activities in another post.  In our last couple of classes we’ve been doing advertisements to see the Giant Peach before it rolls off on its adventures.  One of those things we did was make commercials to get people to come see the peach. This is Eric’s commercial.  He is a third grader.  His commercial seriously cracked me up, especially the “la la la” part.

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Coming Attractions

I’ve somewhat lax in keeping my blog updated.  I do have stuff to post.  I’ve just been insanely busy.  So here’s a sneak peek.

  • Birthday Friday photos
  • Food pyramid poster
  • Holiday photos
  • James and the Giant Peach Activities
  • Random student photos
  • And probably more stuff that I can’t think of off the top of my head
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Christmas Lyrics

Here are two new sets of lyrics for doing Christmas songs with your students.  I’ll also add them to my lyric sheets page.

Sleigh Ride.

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

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2008 Presentations

Last night was great.  The kids were adorable.  They all did really well.  I’m so proud of all of them.  Even Friday, I was pretty nervous about a few classes.  But these kids really pulled it out.  They did an excellent job and they all deserve a huge pat on the back.

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Countdown to Presentations 2008


We’re ramping up our efforts for Kindergarten Presentations.  January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, and September classes are doing a pop song, a poem and either story telling or a play.  October and November classes are doing a musical.

Here’s what the line up looks like…

January

  • Poem: My Elephant
  • Song: Upside Down
  • Story: The Wolf and Seven Lambs

February

  • Poem: My Elephant
  • Song: Upside Down
  • Story: The Wolf and Seven Lambs

March

  • Poem: Giraffes
  • Song: Hey Mickey
  • Story: Peter Pan

April

  • Poem: Row Row Row Your Boat
  • Song: Do Wah Diddy Diddy
  • Story: The Golden Goose

May

  • Poem: A Bad Case of the Sneezes
  • Song: Do Wah Diddy Diddy
  • Story: The Golden Goose

June

  • Poem: I Ain’t Been to School
  • Song: Do Wha Diddy Diddy
  • Story: Peter Pan

July

  • Poem: Today I had a Rotten Day
  • Song:  All the Small Things
  • Story: Sports

August

  • Poem: Basketball’s My Favorite Sport
  • Song: Kung Fu Fighting
  • Play: Snow White

September

  • Poem: Take Me Out to the Ball Game
  • Song: Kung Fu Fighting
  • Play: Snow White

October

  • Musical: The Lion King

November

  • Musical: The Lion King
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