I'm not sure about how the first goal turned out, by I know the second one was accomplished
Right after class started, I had them watch a K-Fee commercial -German coffee company
It wasn't quite as effective as it was in America's Funniest Home Videos when unsuspecting parents watch this video on their computer, but it still produced quite a loud shreik
After I gave the kids that short video, it was time to actually teach them something
I originally wanted them to answer the question “Are you afraid of X?”
and have them reply with “Yes, I’m afraid of X” or “No, I’m not afraid of X”
but man oh man did they have a problem with that
I knew my first graders who’ve barely mastered how to say “book” and
“ruler” weren’t going to be able to say it, but even my fifth graders had
trouble with it
So at the end of the day I just turned it into a listening skills
exercise:
“If you are afraid of pimps,
stand up”
I loved this one because there
would always be a boy who would stand up and I would ask him, “Oh, are you
afraid a pimp is going to make you his boyfriend?” and then he would sit down
and say “no, no, no, no”.
I even let my fourth and fifth graders say sentences out loud that the class would have to follow
"If you're afraid of butter, stand up" was probably my favorite
Even though my original lesson plan failed miserably, it was still a good experience
Here are some of the slides I used
This one really got a lot of kids to jump out of their seats
And this was the first time I used GIFs in my presentation too
My school is awesome
Ecological beauty pageant
There was an "ecological" beauty pageant where students got to make
clothes out of garbage and the best outfits won an award
We also had a traditional Chinese opera troupe come to our school for an afternoon (so I only had to teach 1/2 of a class that afternoon!)
It was a hassle trying to get all of the students to get out on the
playground with their chair (watching the first graders trying to move chairs
that were as big as they were was hilarious and entertainment enough)
but other than that it went pretty smoothly
One teacher summed it up pretty nicely saying “the longer they take
to set up, the better because by then the students will be tired, they won’t be
running around, and they’ll just sit down and watch the show”
Oh, I won an award
If you see this blog often, you've seen that I sometimes make students cry
Even though I make some students cry, I was still given a "My Favorite Class" award (students get to vote for this award and the teachers receiving the most votes wins)
Plus I got a 100 RMB Shenzhen Bookstore Gift Card which bought a lot of postcards and was awesome
That's me ruining the photo in the khakis and the blue button-down t-shirt towards the right of the group.
And this was the first time I used GIFs in my presentation too
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