Thursday May 30, 2013

I was slightly nervous to teach on Thursday because I was giving my students foldables and I was not sure if they were going to understand what to do with them.  Students here are trained to work out of workbooks and I was afraid that giving them this new, foreign object was going to send them over the edge.

However, my students proved me wrong.  The students were so eager to complete the foldable that they listened intently to my directions.  To begin, I had the students look at two different pictures in their book - one was a winter scene and one was a summer scene.  We identified what the people were doing and what types of clothes they were wearing.  As students were telling me what they observed in the picture, I wrote their ideas on the board to create a mind map.  Once we were finished making observations, I gave them the foldable.

On the foldable we wrote the important clothing vocabulary words they needed to remember from this lesson.  I would write the vocabulary word on the board and the students and I would think of three different sentences we could write about that word.  For example:  scarf - 1. I wear a scarf in the winter.  2. I wear a scarf around my neck.  3. I wear a scarf to keep warm.  The students were then able to choose one sentence they wanted to write on their foldable.

The students like activities like this because they get to be creative and use their markers - it is a big deal!

I was so proud of my students for completing this activity in the short amount of time we had.  I asked them if I could take their work back to the United States to show my friends and they thought that was pretty neat :)