WINTER CAMP 2010 Jan 20~22

DAY ONE: welcome & learning instructions; prepositions & household objects

DOL: use a dictionary to look up five vocabulary words. Read, write, & Draw. Read aloud together for Fluency.

Warm-up activity.: Way up in the sky

Pick English names, make nametags

CLASSROOM RULES

I am talking, you are listening

No eating/drinking in class

No handphones

ENGLISH TALKING ONLY

Everyone works, Everyone plays!

ENGLISH ONLY

Name games

I AM…HE IS…SHE IS….WE ARE (actions)

SLAP-TAP using names

(ZIP-ZAP: using nametags & the mystery bag)

THROW THE BALL

VOCABULARY: PREPOSITIONS beside, in, on, under, through, in front behind, in between (SING the SONG!)

PLAY SUSAN SAYS using chairs & blindfolds.

Classroom Scavenger Hunt: search for and write down objects and where they are.

Worksheets—See what they know (house objects & prepositions)

Prereading worksheet: companion to One Snowy Day~

READ words for fluency

SNACK

VOCABULARY GAME: SLAP GAME

Afternoon conversation: what is the best thing to do when it’s snowy outside?

Pre-reading: look at a book cover and tell me about what you see. What do you think this book is about?

Read a story.

More name games: sheet drop.

ABC order with names & blindfolds.

READ together: One Snowy Day

END WITH A SONG: ~GING GANG GOOLIE~

CLEAN THE CLASSROOM .

Line up according to ABC order @ the door. We will sing a goodbye song and then go. See you tomorrow!

DAY TWO: ZOO animals & Can/Can’t

DOL WARM UP

Worksheet—companion to the HICCUPS for ELEPHANT

Read for Fluency

CONVERSATION: Can you…. count backwards from 10?

…. From 100

…. Walk backwards? (have a backwards walking race)

…. Run, fly,swim, talk, jump, write, climb

New vocabulary: ANIMALS: elephant, hippo, monkey, giraffe, lion, alligator, penguin, eagle, pig, sheep

Worksheets. (CATCH UNIT 6)

Guessing game: it is/isn’t it can/can’t

Reinforce vocab activity PPt: BIG PIC & Remembery

ACTIVITY: groups of 2-3 Venn diagram in groups—give each student an animal, they make a venn diagram about things each animal can/can’t do. If they BOTH do it, put it in the space where the circles intersect.

SNACK

CRAFT ACTIVITY: It’s a ________ It CAN ________ It CAN’T _________.

(hang them on the Classroom Projects Wall)

ACTIVITY: LEMONADE

CONVERSATION: When you have the hiccups, what do you do? Does it work? (pretend to have the hiccups, and let them tell you how to cure it)

READ STORY Hiccups for Elephant

CLEAN THE CLASSROOM. See you tomorrow!

(XTRA TIME activity: Heads-up seven up (can a hippo fly? Yes it can’ no it can’t!)

DAY THREE: Review; real/make-believe, the witch goes to school

Hands-on Creative Project: Give students a stack of carefully chosen “random” flashcards from what we’ve been studying all week. Students must create a comic from the vocabulary provided.

Vocab pre-reading worksheet: each Comic group will do 1~2 words and then we’ll get together and fill them all in. Write/create sentences together. (this is a great opportunity to work new vocab into conversation. Cafeteria example) do you like to eat in the cafeteria or the classroom? What do you do in the morning? Etc..etc…

Read words for fluency~slow-slow-fast

Read for fluency in pairs

Pre-Read cover TOGETHER fill out worksheet together

SNACK TIME

GAME: catergories snapping game

DISCUSS: Talk about the difference between Real & make-believe

Do the worksheets (3 pages)

Read THE WITCH GOES TO SCHOOL

1^st) teacher reads, asks questions (students try to answer)

2^nd) students read together aloud (teacher re-asks questions, students answer)

3^rd) listen to E-book read. (teacher re-asks questions, students answer)

XTRA time activity: ACTION MINEFIELD

Clean the classroom really really well—it’s the last day!!!

Thank you for making Winter camp SO SPECIAL!!! ~much love, Susan