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Sunday, June 28, 2009

6/29 Class Review

Review vocabulary and play LEMONADE.

MAKE Comic Strips
using reg. class phrasal points:
"Can you help me?"
"What time is it?"
"Don't do that!"

and vocab from special class,
clothes, places

pull from a bowl, and using what you get, make a story.

What a great group of kids. I like them a lot. they always try, they make an effort in anything I put in front of them, and even if they're shy, they encourage each other to learn, speak up, and make sure everyone feels included.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

6/8/09 class review

6 students showed up today.
1st class ofthe month: grammar class
I think Sarah H has started going to Hagwon after school, and I mis her in the class, but good for her!
Attendence catch phrase of the month: "Good afternoon, _____"
Sing Skinnamarinky-dinky-dink (teach them the extra lines at the end of the song)
grammar and writing: identify a good sentence, cross out the bad sentences.

GRAMMAR POINTS:
Every sentence has a CAPITAL and a PERIOD.
Every sentence has to convey a complete idea.
Every sentence must have a SUBJECT & an ACTION.

Practice together. Different marker colors for different sentence parts.
Then read the sentences/non-sentences together, have the students circle the good sentence, and cross out the incomplete sentence.

This was surprisingly hard for my students to do. it took them several tries to get them to understand different sentence parts, and then to get them to do it on their own was like pulling teeth. what seemed to work best was to get soem one-on-one time with each one (the benefit of a small class) and let them read with you, then see if they get it. Assign page #2 as homework.

It went by a lot faster than I thought it would. We were all surprised by the bell at 2:00.

GOALS for next week:
Reinforce sentence building by doing a cut & paste activity.
Then make comic strips using the vocabulary phrases we're learning in English Class this week.