Iliana and Juan Carlos's class: My body

Week 5

Iliana and Jc's turn and the last class came finally!! :D 

Warm up and Presentation

 The class was about the parts of the body! I came late to the class, and most of the class had begun :( but I hearded that the begining of the class was terrific!! The students sang the "How are you today"song very enthusiastically along with the teachers! The song was the same, but yesterday I did not know if they used the video-song. The fact that they were more enthusiastic than the rest of us in previous classes, and they were all moving around! 

Practices

Then, the next thing I saw is that Iliana was using two different flashcards with the "Yes, I do and No, I don't!" and she was asking them if they had three mouths, hands, heads, eyes, ears, nose, etc. They had to respond according to what they had in the page Ileana gave them. They actually responded, but with a bit of difficulty. Though, they actually had fun and with the page and they responded. 

I liked very much the Jc activity in which they had to roll the dice and a number and color was shown. In the wall the numbers and colored pages were pasted  and according to the number and color they had to go and unstick the paper. The paper showed a picture and then Jc asked them: What is this? I thought that the students were not going to be able to say the answer of the picture, but they did. All the students had the chance to at least roll the dice 

twice and discovered more items under the numbers. 

I did not agree with the directions Jc gave when he gave the students a ball and said: "Put the ball behind your arm". I did not like because I think that not everybody was able to do it, I think this instruction is complicated to understand and is complex. But and instruction like: "Put the ball on your head", would suit the activity. 



The Simon says activity was very good managed and speaking of discipline I think that Jc controled the ones that were misbehaving and by doing this the activity could continue. They liked it, but then he felt that they were kind of bored doing the same, so he speed up the activity. 

King Simon  and Jc

I liked the part in which Jc sang with the children and he shake the different parts of the body. All the children were very happy to sing and they were not shy to move around with Jc. This gave them the opportunity to review the target vocabulary and more importantly, Jc could noticed that most of vocabulary was remembered and internalized by the children. Both were very energetic and managed the class so nice! Jc needed Iliana's help along the class. We disscussed that this is not good for him, because at the end of this he and everybody else will be alone giving classes. I know that he and most of the classmates had not had much experience in this field, but it is better to know that we failed, but we can then learn experience from this and put our best to succed next time of teaching. 

Time to end English Class!! 

Chatting  after a long day!

Stickers

Snack time! 

Imelda's development!!!

Following up my case of study, I think that when she is working in the activities, she works and follows the instructions. She is able to work in groups or individually. She liked very much to move and even thought she does not sing like every word of the last song, she follows the river of singing!! At the first contact of English she had, she told me that she was not undestanding anything the teacher Luis and Gloria said! I saw her very frighthen and not willing to participate. I just saw that she is very shy to participate actively, thus it is simply important that when the teacher wanted Imelda to participate, the technique is to call her by the name. This way, they wake up and know that we want their cooperation or attention in the activity.