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Doraemon is always the answer
Feb. 9th, 2008 01:16 amFor the first time in ages, my Friday kids' class went really well.
I basically filled 50 minutes as such: 5 minute warmup, 15 minutes on the textbook stuff, 15 minutes on the Spelling Puzzle Game, and then 15 minutes of a city game which I thought up this morning.
The Puzzle Game involves me showing them pictures from Phonics and they have to spell them out with alphabet puzzle letters. The girls love it, the boy hates it, and thus the girls "competed" against him by actually spelling words, while he ignored all of us and built random colorful alphabet things. After they had gotten all 10 words right, the girls were like "don't we deserve a prize? like for US and not for HIM??" and for once, I agreed with them and I got out glittery Winnie-the-Pooh stickers and gave them to them. They were absolutely delighted.
For the City Game, I had made a big paper 3x3 city map grid, and then I had the 5 vocab buildings and then I told everyone to draw their own building on paper. They LOVE drawing. So the boy drew a firehouse again, the girls drew a school, a piano school, and a hospital. I drew "my house" and put it at the bottom of the map. Then I got out the secret weapon -- a Doraemon I had picked up at Daiso. I said in a funny voice, "Hello! I am Doraemon!!!" Apparently, kids also love Doraemon, by their reactions.
So Doraemon comes out and stands next to "my house" and says, "WHERE IS THE POST OFFICE????"
One girl points to the post office card and says, "Koko." The other girl says "Go straight!!!"
So Doraemon starts walking along the "street". When he gets to the post office two girls yell "STOP!!!" and then another girl says "lefto", the other girl says "lighto", and I say "It's on the right", which they repeat. Kind of.
Then Doraemon demands, "WHERE IS THE MUSEUM????"
Repeat ad nauseum. Somehow the girls never got sick of directing me-as-Doraemon around. I get the vague impression they actually don't really know left from right in their OWN language let alone in English, but it was ok. They really delighted in yelling at Doraemon to run back and forward and stuff, and when they gave me the wrong directions and I went the wrong way they yelled at me to go the right way, too. Teehee. But they mostly yelled in English. Which is what counts.
The girl who usually doesn't try to follow in English at all even was getting into it. She gave me a ponytail holder, which I put around Doraemon's head, and you can see it in the picture below:
Wheeee, just wait until next week, when our town will gain a bookstore, candy store, etc.
Now, if only I wasn't sick, life would be good. But today I was even really hoarse, which just plain sucked. I tried hard not to sound funny but it was just impossible. Sigh. I'd give anything to wake up tomorrow and not be sick already :(
I basically filled 50 minutes as such: 5 minute warmup, 15 minutes on the textbook stuff, 15 minutes on the Spelling Puzzle Game, and then 15 minutes of a city game which I thought up this morning.
The Puzzle Game involves me showing them pictures from Phonics and they have to spell them out with alphabet puzzle letters. The girls love it, the boy hates it, and thus the girls "competed" against him by actually spelling words, while he ignored all of us and built random colorful alphabet things. After they had gotten all 10 words right, the girls were like "don't we deserve a prize? like for US and not for HIM??" and for once, I agreed with them and I got out glittery Winnie-the-Pooh stickers and gave them to them. They were absolutely delighted.
For the City Game, I had made a big paper 3x3 city map grid, and then I had the 5 vocab buildings and then I told everyone to draw their own building on paper. They LOVE drawing. So the boy drew a firehouse again, the girls drew a school, a piano school, and a hospital. I drew "my house" and put it at the bottom of the map. Then I got out the secret weapon -- a Doraemon I had picked up at Daiso. I said in a funny voice, "Hello! I am Doraemon!!!" Apparently, kids also love Doraemon, by their reactions.
So Doraemon comes out and stands next to "my house" and says, "WHERE IS THE POST OFFICE????"
One girl points to the post office card and says, "Koko." The other girl says "Go straight!!!"
So Doraemon starts walking along the "street". When he gets to the post office two girls yell "STOP!!!" and then another girl says "lefto", the other girl says "lighto", and I say "It's on the right", which they repeat. Kind of.
Then Doraemon demands, "WHERE IS THE MUSEUM????"
Repeat ad nauseum. Somehow the girls never got sick of directing me-as-Doraemon around. I get the vague impression they actually don't really know left from right in their OWN language let alone in English, but it was ok. They really delighted in yelling at Doraemon to run back and forward and stuff, and when they gave me the wrong directions and I went the wrong way they yelled at me to go the right way, too. Teehee. But they mostly yelled in English. Which is what counts.
The girl who usually doesn't try to follow in English at all even was getting into it. She gave me a ponytail holder, which I put around Doraemon's head, and you can see it in the picture below:
Wheeee, just wait until next week, when our town will gain a bookstore, candy store, etc.
Now, if only I wasn't sick, life would be good. But today I was even really hoarse, which just plain sucked. I tried hard not to sound funny but it was just impossible. Sigh. I'd give anything to wake up tomorrow and not be sick already :(
