Friday, December 19, 2014

TELLING THE TIME AND THE DAYS

When I ask the question "What time is it?", it is still echoing  in my head :)
I hope that it is also echoing in my students heads.

This is our echoing video :


What time is it?


the monsters are in the classroom!
booooh!
(I really love monster crafts)


After the video the students could easily  ask and tell the time. I only wrote the answers and explained how to tell the minutes.

They asked why we use "a.m. or p.m."
I gave some information about it.
that's it!!!
we used the model clock to ask and tell the time :)

It's time for the days:
I used two different videos:
1.

2.

then we asked the question:
What day is it today?
Today is......
We changed the place of the marker and asked the day again and again.


These are the first step to the daily routines.

See you next time 
:)

FEELINGS

Feelings with Spongebob



Of course I used a song:


I just warmedup the students. I sticked the spongebob faces and all the other materials on the board.



I asked the question:


and we acted the feelings.

We got angry, sad, energetic ... :)

Students glued the faces fom teir school book and write feelings on their notebook.

Then we were ready for the  GAME.

Each students have a partner.
One  asks The other "How are you?"
the student answers.
The students who asks the question must touch the coect face according tho his/her friends answer. 


In this way, They revised the feelings they have just learnt and had fun.

YES!
That's all.
Short but Effective.





HOW MANY?

HOW MANY?

Fisrt step to asking about quantities "how many?"

The students were familiar to the phrase as I chose this song while teaching numbers.:

I chose a simple video to warm up students :)


It's both familiar and simple.

I asked at the end of the video "How many cakes?"
Almost all the students gave the answer "Ten."

And then I simply talked about plural "-s" with visuals.




GAME TIME
I split the classroom into six groups. 
Each group is for each Classroom object.

 And I made up a very very short story:
 It's Autumn. It's windy outside. ( wind blows here :) )
The leaves of the tree flap around. Now You are the one who pick up the leaves again and bring the Spring. :)

And then I gave them 30 seconds to pick up the leaves and stick them on the board.

They picked up and sticked the leaves very quickly. And they took an"-s" and sticked it, too.


The big "-s" snake visited all the words and gave them a photo of itself as a present. And we said the word with "ssssss" at the end because of the snake :D

Wooow! they got tired :D

So, it's song time to relax and have a rest.


we listened to the song and made a little change.

Look, pencils! How many pencils?
One pencil, two pencils, three pencils

bla bla bla..

we sang it together and asked a friend :
how many erasers?



he counted the erasers :)

we asked how many rulers?

he counted the rulers :)

We relaxed and and learnt.


We enjoyed and learnt together.

In the end we create our tree and revised the "how many?" while sticking the leaves to the tree.
the result:


:)

before  the school:

after the school :


I hope you will also enjoy the way of teaching with this game.

You can use some different videos such as:



or



or



It's up to you :)



Monday, December 15, 2014

NUMBERS 1-10

NUMBERS 1-10 
with 2nd graders

I have a video to warm up the students:


I really like this simple song. I also use this one according to the level of the students.


My little son and I love Charlie and the numbers :)

You may use any song you love. There are many alternatives such as:


Our aim is to introduce the numbers 1-10.



Hold on tight! 

That's the surprise:


Yeaaaah!
I brought a hopscotch play mat to the classroom.

We played hopscotch and count the numbers, practied more and more while hopping on the mat.

We had fun while learning English again and again.


Enjoy teaching and learning English!

FAMILY MEMBERS

FAMILY MEMBERS OR PEPEE?



Which one would you prefer most if you were a child?

Pepee ?


or the stick man's family?


Well....

Bang!
I heard you: 
You said " PEPEE"

Pepee is a wellknown cartoon character by young learners in Turkey so I chose the Family of Pepee to introduce the family members and "Who is this/he/she" phrase.

I used a popular video to warm up students :




We drew faces on our fingers and sang the song together.




After the song, we met the Pepee's family.

And drew a family tree on the notebooks.

Then, it was the tie for asking and answeing questions.

For this activity I prepared a Pepee cap for the Boys and a Hair band of Pepee's sister for the girls.

I asked the question :

"Who is this?"

Students acted as Pepee or Bebe and answered the questions.

Here is a boy with Pepee cap.

Here is a girl with Bebe's Hair band.

And;
I introduced "he" and "she" and they guessed which one for boys and and which one for girls.

  



Students were expected to make sentences using "S/He" so I prepared this words.



I split the classroom 6 groups and gave students words from each word group.

Then I asked the question: "Who is This?"

They make sentences using the papers. 

They had al ot fun and learnt the sentence structure. Also they saw the diffrence between she-he :)



PS.: You can choose a spokesperson for each group and s/he say the sentences. In this way, you can also practce the pronunciation.(this is an advice by one of my colleagues.)

You can use any well-known chracter to teach family members.







Saturday, December 13, 2014

BANDITS and SHERIFFS


CLASSROOM OBJECTS

Hi again!
This week I introduced classroom objects to my students.
I used flashcards, geniue objects and poster.





We repeated the words for the correct pronunciation and played a game for the effective learning. I’m working with young learners so I generally use videos, games songs and etc.
I believe in the power of the games with young learners.

I’m here with a game again.
We played and had really fun with the game.

“BANDITS and SHERIFFS”




Here is the original of the game:
1.       Split the classroom into two teams.
2.       Give each sheriff nd bandit a number.
3.       Place the classroom objects in the middle of the teams.
4.       Call out and object and say anumber. Eg. Pencil-5
5.       Bandits and the sheriff run. If the bandit manage to pick up the object and run back to his place, s/he calls out “I’ve got….”
6.       If the sheriff manage to catch the bandit, S/he call out “I’ve caught….”
( I’ve made little change here: Sheriff asked the question “What’s that? The bandit answered: “That’s a ….”)
7.       The game continues until all the objects have been stolen.
8.       Then 2nd round starts with exchanging roles. 

( We drew lots to determine the groups)

Sheriff  badges


Number 3- the sheriff and the bandit



Ps: Be ready for the noise and distruption by the other teachers. Don’t forget to make the rules clear for all the students before playing the game otherwise there will be a chaos in the classroom.





With the morning group we pushed to play outside because of the noise :D
No matter where we were, we had fun!

the little sheriffs are waiting for the start :D


What did we learn by the game?
     Recognize the classroom objects
  Ask the question “what’s that?” and give answers.
Revise the numbers 

What happened in the end?

He had a lot Fun!

&

We were exhausted :D





WHEEL OF FORTUNE

Hey, everyone!

Spin the Wheel!



I made a Wheel of fortune for my  3rd graders.

We had fun and reached our aims.
We used the Wheel of fortune for the revison of the previous year vocabulary.
-          Fruit
-          School objects
-          Animals
-          Colors
-          Etc….
I didn’t imagine how useful and enjoyable it could be but it was really useful for the revision.
I decided that It will be a part of my classes.
I loved the Wheel of fortune because it gave a chance for active participation. I really surprised that all of the 3rd graders were standing and raising hands for asking the question or giving the answers.

Students also learnt the aimed vocabulary for this unit:
-          Spin!
-          Ask!
-          Answer!
-          Spell!
Etc…



We ENJOYed and LEARNed!!!



wheel of fortune materials:
colored craft papers
thumbtack
glue 
:)

Are you Ready?

Hi everyone!!!
Are you ready for the semester?
YESSSSSS!!! I’M!


Puppets, photo frame (is welknown and popular in Turkey), flascards (are my best friends J ) are all ready for the students..
I  met 4th and 2nd graders first time :)
(a nice present from one of my friends <3 )
And the first impression on the students will create the attidue against the lesson so this first meeting was very special for me and for the students.

The ice breakers are also very important for the first meeting.
This year I chose “True or False” activity to break the ice :D
-          Draw a Picture/ Cartoon of yourself
-          Write 5 info about yourself – some true/ some false-
-          Ask the which can be true or false
-          Take notes about the answers
-          Explain the correct info
-          At the end ask students to create the same thing about themselves.


We really had fun 

:)



I hope it will also work for you…