In today meeting, I learned "SIMPLE is great important!"
I prepared a game for today meeting's presentation. When I prepare the game, I guessed it is good for children to show all things name's spellings. So I wrote them on origamis and pictures. However, I found it not to be written spellings on video which Ms. Christie introduced to us today. And then, I told that to meeting member and Ms.Christie. Ms. Christie recieve my opinion, and she says "SIMPLE is great important! If children watch illustration and spelling on picture, they may confuse . They will panick which illustration and spelling are more important." I heard what she said, and I thought that is certainly true. I tend to have a lot of imformation into my activities, but I found it difficult to understand more for children.
Moreover, I was glad to gain good advices against my game in today meeting! It is useful for me to improve my activities and skills. Thanks a lot! :D
A lot of people were busy today so our group was small, but we enjoyed learning a new activity.
Megumi introduced her activity that teaches colors and nouns. Click HERE to see her lesson plan!
I also introduced a great song to teach basic language such as
Do you like ____?
I like _____.
I don't like ____.
Yucky!
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At the beginning of our meeting I was telling Megumi about a really interesting volunteer activity I was involved with last week. She thought that other group members might be interested in it. Please click HERE to find out more about the APCC (Asian Pacific Children's Convention). They also have a Facebook page. Search for this group: Asian-Pacific Children's Convention
Hi everybody! I was just looking at the last blog post I made -- I think I asked you all to prepare and present a game or activity to the group today, but I see that I didn't make a note of it on the blog... Did everyone remember about that?! I hope you can share some new ideas with us!! See you at lunch time - Christie
We learned a English game to teach children. We want to teach English to elementary school students. In the time, I played the game with KGU child English study members and Ms. christie. I had a nice time. In the present day, they have to study English to work in the future. I think that studying English is important and interesting!! So we must study English and learning about children. Sometimes we want to teach English to many children.
Through 3rd meeting...** I thought three things that I joined KGU child English group, :First not only children is fun but also teacher is fun. I surprised I respected child's teacher more,because I also am anxious to teach like that. I thought I have to talk with many people to recover shy boy;Second I've gotto study English hard,because In my case I run short of vocabulary, communication speaking.....I always feel like so,for that reason I thought I want to concentrate more in my class,but it's simplest thing..... ;Lastly I thought I have time to spend with children. Someday I want to teach children, so more I have time to spend them I am to my advantage.
Through the 3rd, 4th and 5th meetings, we learned what is important to teach for children.
First of all, we must introduce the verbs to children. Children doesn't have enough English vocabulary. So we must show some English words in first! And then we have to have verb-related activities. "TEACHING and TESTING and ACTIVITY" is great important, so we must keep this cycle in our mind. With this cycle, children touch various English words many times, so they can expand their vocabulary.
In addition, we must not forget "SIMPLE and OVER ACTIONS with KEEPING TENSION!" That seems simple, but it's surprisingly difficult... We are adult, so we can't forget to have shyness in public. If we can't do that, we can't show "SIMPLE and OVER ACTIONS with KEEPING TENSION!" in front of children much more. But children are tired when they repeat the same and negative actions. They love moving so much! So we must introduce different style in activities, and work that with ENJOYMENT. If we teachers work activity with enjoyment, children can enjoy do that! So we must not forget to keep ENJOYMENT in our mind!
In last, I introduce some useful verb-related activities!
*Gesture Game
After introducing the verbs to the students, cut up the cards and out them in a box. have one student come to the front of class and take a card. The student then should act out the verb using gesture. the students sitting down then must say what verb the student is mimicking.
*Timed Race
All the cards are out in a pile on the floor. The students must go and pick up a card, go to the teacher and say the target expression(e.g. I can dance). If the student picked up by the students and passed on to the teacher, the teacher stops the timer. The time is announced. Students then try again to beat their time.
Today we talked about several things. First, we discussed possible search terms for finding lesson materials online. We talked about changing the Google language settings to English to search for more resources in English. We also shared ideas for search terms. For example, if you want to teach young children various verbs, you can search for
esl children verb
esl children verb song
esl children verb game
Or, if you want to search for a different age group, add a search term:
esl elementary children verb
esl elementary children verb song
esl elementary children verb worksheet
Then we looked at some ideas for teaching vocabulary for colors to young children. We looked at a video that introduces a song by Super Simple Learning: I See Something Blue...
Then we watched a video of a teacher using the song with young children:
It's a good, basic song that you can use to keep children active while they are learning the target language. Super Simple Learning also has another song in the same form that teaches more colors. Click to see the page about I See Something Pink
The concepts in these songs can be practiced in games outlined on this web page.
(The following information has been copied from the web page)
Color Game: This
is a good one for teaching the names of colors to young children. Arrange
various colors of construction paper in a circle. Play some music and have the
children march around the circle. Stop the music and all the children must sit
down next to a color. Pick a color and sing (to the tune of "Twinkle
Twinkle Little Star"):
Who's beside the color (insert name of
color)?
Please stand up, if it's you.
At that point, the child next to
the color mentioned stands up. Continue until all of the children get a turn.
Color Circles: A
good activity for young kids.Get some
pieces of A3 paper and draw a large circle on each one.Pin the circles on different walls in the
classroom.Model the activity: Say
"Blue", take a blue crayon, walk over to one circle and color a small
part of the circle.Do this for each
color you plan to teach.Then, say a
color ("Blue") to a S and s/he should pick up the blue crayon and go
over to the circle you colored in blue.Let him/her color it a little and then call him/her back.Continue with other Ss.
Finally, for older children -- elementary school age, perhaps -- you can see a useful lesson plan on this web page. The writer does not include a sample handout / worksheet, so I made one that you can use and modify as you like. Click HERE to download the handout. You can change the handout to match the colors and shapes you wish to teach.
