I was going through old videos and uploaded some to YouTube. This is finally after getting myself logged back into my account. Something is buggered (or was buggered) with this stupid linking your Google and YouTube account. But I digress.
This is a video done right before 2009 annual presentations. These kids would be first graders now. I proudly present Newton Class from Little Campus.
I’ve been using a set of alphabet magnets with Apple Class (7-year-old kindergarten class) since they started learning the alphabet. The set I have has four complete sets in four different colors. Conveniently, there are four kids in the class. So I separated the magnets into bags. At the beginning, they just had to put the alphabet on the board. But now they are learning short vowels and the basics of reading. I also have very small white boards for various activities. And luckily, they are magnetic. So… each student got a bag of letters and a board. We practiced sounding out words and “writing” them on our boards. I like the activity because it’s very hands on. It gets most of their senses involved. And, well, it’s fun. There’s a picture of me doing the same thing at about 4 on the refrigerator.
I’m teaching one class of 7-year-old (kindergarteners) once a week. Right now, they’re still working on learning the alphabet. I was at Home Plus (where else?) on day and saw a bucket of alphabet magnets. The price wasn’t too outrageous (about what I’d expect in a US toy store) so I bought a set. It worked out perfectly. There were 4 sets of letters and 4 kids in the class. As they learn new letters, I add them to a plastic bag.
At the beginning of each class, we sing the ABC song a few times as a warm up. Then we do rock scissor paper (to avoid fighting over colors). When that’s all done, each student has a bag of magnets. They go up to the board and have to put them up in correct order. They struggle with things like the b and the d and the q and the p, so we sing and look at our big ABC poster.
Here are a few pictures of them from the first time they did the activity.
At the end of February, our 7 year olds graduated from Maple Kinder. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend the event. However, Karin was kind enough to get a few pictures for me. I’m proud of what these students accomplished in the kindergarten. And I’m doubly proud of what they are accomplishing in the elementary school classes. Congratulations Spring and Winter Classes!
I love singing songs with my kiddos. The lower level course books usually have OK songs. This one is from “Let’s Go 2″ and is teaching ‘like’ and ‘want’.
The video features Winter Class, 4 1st graders and a kindergartener. Brian, Ella and Joy were in Maple Kinder. Amy and Juliet are new students.
Polaris Class is studying countable and uncountable nouns using foods. Their latest activity was to draw some foods on a table and the write sentences about them. For example… There is an apple on the table. There are three bananas on the table. There is some cheese on the table. I simply took the book activity and put it on the board. After cutting out various foods from flashcards each student came up and added one picture to the table on the board. They had to write a/an/some/number by the picture. When everyone had a turn, they had to write the sentences on the board. Then they repeated the exercise in their books on their own. repetition is the key to successful second language learning. By doing it as a group first, the class didn’t even realize they were doing it more than once.
Enjoy the pics!
On Tuesday, the Kindergarten celebrated Korean New Year. All the students came in their 한복 (hanbok). In the morning, they made their 복주머니 (lucky pouches) for the school’s New Year’s day celebration. They then practiced their 세배 (saebae, New Year’s Bow). After the traditional New Year’s meal of 떡국 (TteokGuk, rice cake soup) and some free time, the kids played 윷놀이 (yutnori). Then they went home. Enjoy the pictures of the kids in their hanbok.
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