Special Class: Grade 6
Sunday, May 16, 2010
MAY AS_6 SCHEDULE
5/10: SHANNON & EMILY talk about schools around the world & class subjects
worksheets from CATCH 4 (red book). Make School brochures, info all about your school.
5/19: no AS class due to open class
5/26
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
AFTERSCHOOL: SPRING 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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
1st) teacher reads, asks questions (students try to answer)
2nd) students read together aloud (teacher re-asks questions, students answer)
3rd) 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
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
SEPTEMBER: Gettingto Know You
SEPTEMBER: New Semester
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Grade 6: SUMMER PROJECT
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
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Class Review
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.