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.

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

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 :) >>

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!!

COLORS WITH GAMES

Hi again :)

I have two simple games for the "Colors" subject.

The first one is.....

1. Students choose 5 different colors and put them on the table. 

( we used crayons and colored pencils for the activity but it's up to your students. They can use any colored material..)

2. They use a book or notebook as the BINGO card.

3. It's your turn now. You say different colors and students put it on the book/notebook. 

4. When s/he put all the colors s/he has chosen, s/he say loudly:"BINGO!"

5. S/he is the winner :)

Simple material but very enjoyable and exiting for especially very young learner such as my 2nd grader :)

Have you ever played SPUD?

 Yes, the second is..

I've just adapted it to the "colors" subject. ;)

SPUD 

Spud is a popular tossing and catching ball game played by at least 4 players or more. One player has the ball and the others gather around. The player throws the ball straight up in the air, while calling out a name of one of the players. The called player has to try to catch the ball, while the others run away as fast as they can.  When the called player catches the ball, he is allowed to throw it back in the air, while calling out another player’s name that then has to try to catch the ball. If he doesn't catch the ball then he has to pick it up and call loudly: "SPUD". Everybody has to freeze. The player with the ball chooses an opponent to hit with the ball and he can take two big hops towards his victim. If he hits his opponent with the ball the opponent receives the letter "S". If he misses or his victim catches the ball, then the thrower gets the letter "S". The penalized player starts the next round by throwing the ball up. As the game goes on, the players receive first S, then P, then U and then D. The first player who receives all four letters SPUD is the loser. A very popular and easy ball game to play with kids. 

Taken from:" http://www.best-children-games.com/ball-games.html "

What did I change?

The part in Italic has changed a little.

( In fact, it's the way how we play it in Turkey)

"The player with the ball chooses a color and calls it out. At that time the other players try to find the color . When they have found it, they have to touch it. While the players are trying to find th color,the player with the ball tries to hit one of the players before touching the color." 

And it goes on the same way. :)

We call this game "İSTOP" in TURKEY :)

It's really easy to play and enjoyable. 

But you need a good weather condition and a ball

 

like this one :)

See you next time :)

Bye!