Luis and Gloria: Second Class

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The second class was about clothes!!

Teachers: Luis and Gloria                    Date : November, Friday 1 st^, 2013.
Lesson 7

Vocabulary: Jeans, shorts, dress, blouse, skirts, t-shirt, socks, shoes, glasses, hat, cup, sweater.

Grammar: I am wearing, she is wearing, and he is wearing.

Whose _____is this? Whose _______are these?

Review: Numbers (1-20), alphabet, colors, family members.

   Gloria opened the class singing the classic yet fun song that the children are learning to mumble, the "How are you today" song as a warm-up activity. They liked it very much because they used paddle with the three faces and while they song the song they raised up the paddle according to what they heard. At the beginning they were kind of lost when gloria wanted them to raise up the paddle. They felt not so much enthusiastic, but I noticed that they got the idea at the end. It is important that whenever we want them to do something, to model how we want that to occur, though you will be dissapointed and not so happy because they are lost. 

 Presentation

Gloria used flashcards to present the clothes, the vocabulary target. It was a nice strategy because to me they were already familiar in a way of this vocabulary. Alan and the other older children, knew some of the vocabulary and they were responding to Gloria's eliciting. Something that I wish they had done is to have the images bigger. However, I saw that they were capable of seeing the images. she showed the skirt, t-shirt, shoes, glasses, etc. She showed them and they repeat the word and also she explained touching her own t-shirt, jeans, shoes, socks so they can actually know a bit more the word. It was a nice idea, to point to real clothes so that they are sure about the meaning. she used also the question: "What is this?" and they answer to some of the clothes. I saw Imelda paying attention to this part, she was encoutering the vocabulary and as everyone in the class need drilling a examples. 
There was a part where Gloria said: "What do you have?", when she gave them a piece of clothes and she reached the pair of shoes that she had with her. I think that it was not so good to say a shoe at a time, but to say "shoes" only. This also happen with the "glasses" word. I could be stated that they can be confused with it. I think that she was nervous and got confused. 

Then, gloria taught them a song about clothes!! I think that it was nice and fun for them. They like to play around and shake their bodies! I think that they liked when she introduced a new word and modeled how that piece of clothes was using the hands and body movement. They work hard to keep up singing and moving their bodies. 
The next activity was nice, because Gloria used a boy and girl doll to dress up. She gave the children the prompts to be used and the majority of them wanted to dress up the draw... This is because they are familiar with the activity and even Imelda liked it. She was able to paste the clothes that Gloria asked and even though some of them pasted other clothes on the dolls, it was a great activity. Teacher Gloria also pointed Alan's work to be the model for the rest of the group. They were focused and wanted the teacher to say quick the next word. 
Even though she modeled how to do the activity, I think that she is continously talking fast and we know that children are aware of us modeling not specifically understanding our speech. so, we have to manange more how fast we are talking. I liked that she always had control over the group and they obeyed her when she called their names. 


The next activiy was in charged of Luis. He used the technique/activity of memory game. I really enjoyed how they were hands-on the activity. They showed great interest and even my case of study was perfectly able to use her cognitiveness and participate in the activity. I liked that Luis had the control over the participation. He does seem nervous at the begining, but he overcame those feelings. It was so important to control the participation because there will be a moment where they would scream or something and the activity could be lost. 
He first asked someone to give a number and color. I thougt that he was going to say how to do it with his own modeling, but he did not. Then, I thought that they confused with his directions, but bit a bit they got how the game was played. This type of games are not only fun, but appeling to them. They were reviewing numbers from one to eleven and colors. Despite that the images were not in color they were perfectly capable of following the game. When one student found the matching clothes, Luis gave the pair and so on. 

The final part of the practice managed by Luis was about putting on the clothes he brought for them to wear. They were genuinaly having fun with this activity, I am not so sure if they were able to show if they know the vocabulary and demostrate to Luis to respond to the questions he asked them. Despite of this, they were having lot of fun. To me even though they were so franctic about putting on the clothes, they realized how to answer Luis questions. In this activity I saw that Imelda was not interested in the activity, not as much as the rest of the class. She was shy and did not put on the clothes that she chose. I guess she did not understand what piece of clothes she chose and then she got intimitated by the boys playing around. 

He wanted the children to make two lines in front of the rest of the children, but he did not control much the discipline. I think this was the only aspect that I recommend him to watch over. Once they control the activity, there are fewer chances to recover the activity, or at least it becomes more difficult to achieve the objective of the activity. Other than this, Luis taught them well!

Look at these BIG shoes on Alan! :D 

Luis singing the "Good Bye" song ... using some help..