Teaching

This month, I've been teaching my 3rd graders a lesson entitled "How many cows?" The point of the lesson is to learn how to ask and answer questions regarding liking animals, having animals, and counting animals. Some of my classes know the vocabulary so well that they are completely bored, others still can't differentiate between like and have (which is particularly hard to teach at the schools where I have no co-teacher). Anyway, the best thing about this lesson is using animal props.
These are two of my 3rd graders Jason (in the hat) and Lion (face covered). Just so you know, I didn't assign them English names, they already had them. I would never advise a kid to choose the name Lion.

These props were for a role play. Here's another third grade class acting out the role play. It might be hard to tell what's going on. The general idea is that momma pig (in the hat) counts to see how many baby pigs she has. She has 3. She then sends them off to play. After they've been playing, brother pig (the puppet) counts again, and finds that there is one less pig. Sister pig (felt pig) quickly corrects him and informs him that he forgot to count himself.


We also recently discovered that at our smallest school (with a total of eight students) our 4th, 5th, and 6th graders are in a rock band. Front Row (L to R) My one and only 5th grade student on guitar, Jon's one and only 4th grade student on guitar, Jon's 6th grade student on bass. Back row: Jon's 6th grade students on drums and keyboard. Make sure you turn down the volume before you watch this video, and please watch it the whole way. About halfway through there's a really cute chant and a cool keyboard part.

I used the Facebook uploader for the videos this time, as I know Vimeo doesn't work well on some computers. The videos are still available on Vimeo as well. Ingu pictures are here, Seoul pictures are here, and orientation pictures are here.