JOBS (Part-1)

4TH GRADERS 

AND 

OUR TOPIC:

 JOBS

Here we go!

I've got a warmer :)

This video made them relaxed. Especially,"He is a fisherman" part was very funny for them :)

After the video, I introduced the jobs with the flashcards

( Unfortunately, I forgot to take photos.)

I sticked them on the board and we repeated them.

then we played the game seen in the video:

activity 4: magic eyes

And then;

we asked the question " What's your job?"

 All the students gave the answers with different jobs.

We prepared  "fortune teller plates" and we had much fun.

students imagined abot the 20 years later and wrote sentences about their jobs.

that's was fun :)

photoshocking students :D

And the Bulletin board
( the idea is from Pinterest - snowglobe with paperplate-)

You need:
1. colored papers
2. scissors, glue
3. pictures of different jobs
4. eager students with endless energy :)


have fun!

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 

:)

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.

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…

MY BODY (Body Parts) Part-2

Hold on Tight!

 The 2nd part is coming with two games and a monster craft

 :)

1st game is coming:

Run Run Run and Touch

( I made up the name :P)

1. Put the flashcards on a desk.

2. Say the name of one body part.

3. Students have only 10 seconds to find and touch the correct card.

4. The 1st student who touch the correct card say another body part.

5. And the game continues till they will be exhausted :)  (approximately 10 min)

2nd one is a song to rewiev the body parts.

Sing the song, dance, act and enjoy it :)

just like us 

"Touch your arms"

The result:

I like doing crafts in the classroom.

We made monsters together 

and let the monsters talk 

They learned and practiced " Have got" :)

We had a lot of fun :)

I hope it will work for you :)

<< materials for monster: craft papers, scissors, glue, crayons :) >>

MY BODY (Body Parts) Part-1

Hellooo!

 Our topic is 

"My Body".

My lovely 2nd graders learned most of the body parts. 

They are really good at "eyes, head, fingers,mouth, shoulders".

But "tooth/teeth, Foot/feet" are quite complicated for them.

What did I do to teach?

(not very different :))

I sang songs, played games, drew pictures etc :P

I stepped into the classroom with the song:

" Head Shoulders Knees and Toes".

 All of them surprised and confused. It was really funny :)

I acted the song say it one more time in front them.

 Some of them guessed our topic.

Then I showed the flashcards and named my body parts at the same time.

After flashcards, it was the time for my drawing :)

 I drew Wilma -the flintstones- because it's really easy to draw.

I drew and tagged the parts but I didn't write the names. I asked the students and they said the parts they remembered. We wrote them together.

The students drew and wrote them on their notebooks.

Homework:

Learn the body  Parts :)

See you 

 :)

(Not finished yet)

AT THE PLAYGROUND

We learned some simple actions such as :

dance, sing, jump,....... and etc.

I didn't use mother tongue for the actions.

 I wrote them on the board and drew the pictures for the actions. 

I gave enough time for my little stars to write and draw :)

After they finished, we repeated the words for correct pronounciation. 

We acted the actions.

(It was enjoyable.)

The pictures...

Here comes my perfect drawing talent :p

And I have really talented students such as :

And "Let's ...." is our grammer focus.

With 2nd graders -of course- I had a game to teach the "let's...."  phrase.

And I'm sure that 

I did it :)

I prepared a simple dice at home and took it to the class in a bag. 

-the faces of the dice again with my perfect(?) pictures :)))-

When the students asked me, I said "It's a surprise". 

After all the students finished writing, we went outside :) (In fact, I tried to play the game in the classroom 

but in a minute 

the teacher in the next classroom came and said:

"Auch! Sorry! Was it You? I thougt there wasn't a teacher in the classroom. Sorry again!" 

 :)

We ran out and played the game.

1. Make a circle and put the dice in the middle.

2. We have a super simple song for the game:

Lyrics

walking walking walking walking

hop hop hop hop hop hop

running running running running running running

now let's stop.

3. I changed it a little.

walking walking walking walking

hop hop hop hop hop hop

swimming swimming swimming swimming swimming swimming

now let's ................

4. when you say "now let's..." , just stop.

5. One of the students take the dice and throw it.

6. Say the action. eg. "Let's jump"

7. All of them act it and you start singing again: walking .... :)

8. When all the students throw the dice one by one, it's finished.

My energetic 2nd graders really loved it 

and now thay can all say an action using "Let's ...."

As I mentioned before I love TPR method especially with young learners so this game is an alternative way of applying TPR in the classroom to teach simple actions.

It worked for me and my students :)

Enjoy it!!

CLASSROOM OBJETS AND "HOW MANY?"

The subject "Classroom objects" is one of my best subjects to teach because we are in a classroom and we have many geniue materials around :)

But this isn't satisfying for me so I always support the subjects with the flascards.

And ta-ta-ta-taaaaa:
"What's this?"
We practiced it shortly .

CLASSROOM LANGUAGE
And I think the best way to teach the classroom language is TPR. 2nd or 4th graders it doesn't matter, all the students like the way. During the class while we were learning the classsroom language, They were having fun as if we were playing games :))

And we have a hand out.

It focuses on spelling  the classroom objects and recognizing the classroom language phrases :)

HOW MANY?
The most enjoyable part of the subject for the students is this part. because we played a game together. First, I prepared the cards you see in the picture.

I talked about the plural "-'s" briefly.

Now, the game is starting :))

1. Use a Tack-it adhesive and pin the cards anywhere in the classroom.

2. Group the students according to the card groups. For instance, I have five different card group so I grouped them into five :)

3. Draw 5 circle for each group and write word for cards which they will pick.

4. Give the groups only 30 seconds to pick up the cards. They have to pick the card and put it into the correct circle.

5. Choose an energetic music to make the process more exciting.

6. Check the cards and give a feedback - I use stars to motivate 2nd graders-.

Now, you have this image on the board.

Then, ask the students "how many pencils? and count the pencils together. Now, write the quantity of the pencils. Repeat this for each kind of card. 

Then, write the questions on the board and answer them with your students. It really worked in my classes. Many of my students can say the quantity without any hesitation.

I used different colors for cards to practice the colors at the same time :)

DID I DO ALL THESE THINGS IN TWO CLASSES?

Of course NOT :) I spent 3 weeks which means 6 English classes (40 min. X 6 )

P.S. : Be ready for the interruption during the game because there will be a little (?) more noise in the classroom :)

I hope it helps you.