SEPTEMBER: Gettingto Know You

Greetings!

Take attendence.

Review Classroom rules & consequences

Play a name game: Actions

Interview and Present:

Go over interview sheet and vocabulary on it.

Make sure students know what's expected of them before turning them loose!

Break up into pairs and fill out and interview sheet.

Present your parnter to the class.

See you next week!

SEPTEMBER: New Semester

Welcome back returning students, welcome new kids pick English names.

Everyone makes nametags--Susan laminates them.

Circle up on the stage: go over 5 rules of Special class

1) English only

2) Be ON TIME. if you're late, wait in the back of the classroom to be invited in!

3) No food in Class, NO PHONES!

4) pay attention when someone is talking!

5) have fun! try to learn English!

Name Games:

I am...she is...he is...

Sheet drop rover

ABC order with letters then names.

Grade 6: SUMMER PROJECT

MULTI-CLASS PROJECT: objective: students will work together to create a student newspaper. 1 lesson=2 weeks. each week teacher will present a different topic and associated vocabulary, then students will work independently in groups of 2-3 to create documents for the paper.
before end of class, introduce the next topic, and have them bring materials/ideas that they think will be good for the paper.

choose: 2 editors who will choose how the newspaper will ultimately look
and writers

sections:
weather
fashion
advice column
opinion
horroscope
Events & Announcements
World News
Letters From the Editors
Classifieds

Crosswords
puzzles
brain teasers

recipes for summer

Class Review

There are 22 students in my 6th grade class.
I miss a lot of these kids, since they're not in my regular classes anymore.
Therefore, Coming to my Language Center becomes a novelty, a privilege.
But, oh, boy are they a rowdy bunch! I hope this momentum keeps up as the year goes on. 6th graders are notorious pissy-missies & misters.

But I really like these kids. and I know they enjoy coming to class.
So I hope to keep up this enthusiasm.

5/21/09 class review:
I used this class to practice for my upcoming open class, since the group is rather large, and they've already been through all the 5th grade curriculum. Plus, a little review can always be helpful.
So we practiced the games/activities we'll go through this Wednesday for Open Class.
I am so excited! What a Show-off I am...

We played ZIP...ZAP...Sorry? to warm-up
Then we had a quick review session of vocabulary and directions,
Then we did Where's my Chair? Blindfolded Directions...game.
See game descriptions here.

Class review 4/9/09

Oh these 6th graders are a handful!
it reminds me of all the angst and how things can change so fast. why oh why do sweet 5th graders turn so wierd and awkward when they hit that grade? strangely bigger, more sour.

Still they are a lot of fun. they are just so rambunctious on a thursday afternoon.
We started out playing the standard toss the ball and say the name game, then timing it.
I didn't expect them to have so much trouble just keeping it in the air, not dropping it. So it took a lot longer than I'd expected. (seems to be the theme of this class)

Initially I just want to develop a group comfort level, create an environment of comraderie, where the kids can feel comfortable sharing, playing, and studying together. So for the first little while, I'm going to do my best toincorporsate some team building activities into the curriculum.

Then we learned the phrasal points,
"I'd (would) like..."
"I'd like you to...."
"Why don't you..."

I started out with a ball and asked them what they wanted. the first kid to say "I want to ball," got it, and then they all started shouting.
I got the ball back and introduced, I would--->I'd....."I'd like the ball," and the chaos ensued again. this time I used 2 balls--one blue, one red.
got the balls back & changed it, "I'd like you to + ACTION+ the ball." "
and the same with "Why don't you+ ACTION+ the ball."

I don't know why but this activity got the kids really riled up. there were balls and shouting and that's it. I kindof let the chaos happen a bit, as long as I heard them shouting out the appropriate phrases.

I gave the kids 3 pics of fruit. They had to write 3 sentences using our three new phrasal points, then they could go home. Surprisingly, this was difficult for some of them, many of them forgot to put in theACTION word, others just copied the 1 sentence I'd written on the board.

Goals for next class: I didn't even get thru half of what I wanted to, so theres much more to cover. Next week I'd like to start with SHOULD as a talking point. play "what are you doing?" and start to work on our skits, what SHOULD you do when you meet someone for the first time? what SHOULDN'T you do?